Looking in from the back wall
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Looking in at the entrance
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From the east side
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Approaching Trepied from the west, i.e. the road. The encroachment of ivy over the little stone in the foreground, visibe by comparison with Peter Castle’s 2005 photograph, is a salutary lesson in how things get lost.
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Le Trepied Tomb entrance
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Le Trepied Tomb from the side.
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Careful when you cross the road, kids! It is next to some cannons. If you spot the cannons, you’re in the right place.
Le Trepied Tomb is situated on the west side of the island in the St Savior’s District.It is near to Le Catioroc on the edge of Perelle Bay.The tomb is easy to get to as it is on the side of the main road that runs around the island,and is close to a car park.There is nothing left of the cairn which covered the tomb.
Another megalithic site associated with witchcraft is the tomb known as Le Trepied, in the parish of St Saviour, Guernsey. ‘It was a notorious meeting-place for Guernsey witches, the Friday night Sabbats being sufficiently important to be attended by the devil himself, and the place is repeatedly mentioned in the witch trials of the seventeenth century.’ -- (Sir) T D Kendrick. The Archaeology of the Channel Islands. I. The Bailiwick of Guernsey. 1928, pp188-9.
From a footnote in Leslie Grinsell’s ‘Witchcraft at some prehistoric sites’, in K Briggs’s ‘The Witch Figure’ (1973).