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Notes on a trip to Brittany, with drawings

Reference code
FOW/01/23
Title
Notes on a trip to Brittany, with drawings
Date
1881
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
1 notebook
Scope and content
Diary of travels in Brittany, continued from FOW/01/22. Locations visited include Ile aux Moines, Auray, Crac’h, Locmariaquer, Arzon, Carnac, Plouharnel.

Contents include:
* notes on travel, accommodation, local customs and food; details of the natural environment, megaliths, dolmens, tumuli;
* drawings of accommodation at Ile aux Moines, sailboat, landscape, dolmens and megaliths, Ile Longue, carvings in Mane Lud dolmen, Dolmen Ar Marchand, Mane-er-Hroeck, St Michel tumulus and chapel, carvings in the grottes de Grionec;
* a photograph of the dolmen of Crucuno.
Creator
Fowler, Joseph Thomas (1833-1924), clergyman, Hebrew scholar and antiquary