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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    Mr. Lukis’s specimens were all dead, but Mr. Macculloch, of Guernsey, has informed me that he obtained living shells of the Pholas dactylm, Birds’-nests, and hazel-nuts, with the kernels yet within them, have also been found in the peat. This latter fact is the more observable in conse- quence of the infrequency of the occurrence of the tree in the island. In addition to these, the teeth of horses and hogs have likewise been found in it. “ Another fact,” observes Mr. Lukis,' “ of much interest to the antiquary is, that pottery and stone instruments, the tools and vessels of the first inhabitants of these islands, materials in character co-existent with our cromlechs, and their contents recently discovered within them, formed of the same substances, and in every respect connected with the races which have created them, have been from time to time found in the vegetable deposit in Vazon Bay. It is also reported that several hundred Homan coins were discovered in the peat some years ago.” No human remains have yet been found in the peat. From many circumstances which have been noticed, it is extremely probable, if not posi- tively proved, that this bay is of recent forma- tion, comparatively speaking with, for example, ’ The Star, Guernsey, December 1847. See Appendix to this work.