Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:
[1855?]
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Credit: Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    considered to represent those in question. It is probable that at least the largest islands of the group were in the occupation of the Gauls prior to the invasion of Britain by Cassar. Numerous Celtic remains have been discovered in the islands, which prove that they were occu- pied at a very remote period. That the Bomans for some time held possession of them, appears probable from the existence of ruined forti- fications of Roman character. At the romantic and precipitous part of the southern coast of Guernsey, called Jerbourg,—a name derived, it is said, from a corruption of the words Ccesaris hurgum,—there are the remains of a Roman trench, and other evidences of the spot having been at a former period selected for defence by this warlike people. In Jersey, adjoining to Mont Orgueil castle, and having a communication with it, there is an old for- tification called to this day Caesar’s Fort, a Roman camp having been supposed to have formerly existed near one of the manors in the same island. Some Roman coins of the later periods of the empire have also been dis- covered in this island. Little or nothing upon which reliance can be placed is known of the interval from the period in question down to about the middle of the sixth century. It appears that the Saxon