Carnac

a village on the southwestern coast of ancient Brittany. It is in the modern department of Morbihan, France. It may be reached by rail. Population, about 3,000. Carnac is famous for prehistoric remains. It was a seat of the Druids. Over 1,100 rude blocks of granite, some of them upwards of eighteen feet in height, stand on a level heath. They are arranged in rows and form avenues with a half circle at one end. The stones are thought to mark a vast Druidical open air temple and burying ground, but how people without modern tools could quarry and transport these huge stones is a marvel. The stones have the form of rough obelisks standing on the pointed end. Many of these stones were used at an early day by the surrounding farmers in the construction of stables and houses, so that the rows are far from complete. See Stonehenge