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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Gavrinis Burial Mound is in Gavrinis, Prehistoric Brittany Burials.
Archaeologia Volume V32 1847 Appendix. Further Notice of the Monument at Gaur' Innis [Map] in Britanny.
29th April, 1847 - William Bromet, Esq. M.D. F.S.A. in another Letter to the Director, communicated a further explanation of the Monument at Gaur' Innis in Britanny — together with some rubbings from those of its sculptured stones which he considered the most interesting. A remarkable peculiarity in this Monument consists in the interior faces of several of its component stones being engraved with concentric curves resembling eels or serpents: and others with those instruments called celts, or small ovals pointed at one end, but so placed as to give an appearance of their being hieroglyphic characters. There are only two other instances of the kind on record, viz. one formerly near Gavr' Innis called the "Pierres Plates" now destroyed, and the one at New Grange, in Ireland. Another distinctive feature is a sort of staple made in the stone at about three feet from the ground, by three holes communicating with each other at the back, and indicating much friction by the internal smoothness, as if by the action of ropes passed through.
Llewellynn Jewitt 1870. Another of the more remarkable structures of the Channel Islands is that of Gavr Innis [Map], in the Morbihan, Brittany. The tumulus is about thirty feet high, and its circumference at the base about 300 feet. The cromlech is entered from the south end (fig. 55), fig. 56 being the opening on the north, and consists of 14 upright stones on the east side, 13 on the west, and 2 on the north, supporting, in all, 10 capstones. In general features it bears a strong resemblance to those at New Grange, Dowth, and other places. The remarkable feature of this chambered tumulus is that the stones composing the passage are for the most part sculptured in lines and patterns, which have been described as very similar to the patterns tattooed on their faces and bodies by the New Zealanders. Examples of these will be seen on the accompanying engravings, which exhibit some of the more marked and distinct of the patterns noticed and copied by Mr. Lukis, in his examination of this mound, and described by him in the journal of the British Archaeological Association, to the Council of which I am indebted for these illustrations.
Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society Volume 15 1894 Pages 52-54. The most interesting and perfect is that of Gavr Innis [Map] in the Morbihan. The mound is 197 feet in diameter and 30 feet high; it is entered by a passage 44 feet long, leading into a chamber nine feet by eight feet. Both passage and chamber are lined by stones curiously sculptured with wavy, circular, and spiral lines. Probably the largest known of these dolmens is the one on the banks of the Boyne at New Grange, near Drogheda. It has a diameter of 316 feet, a height of 70 feet, with a passage 63 feet long, and many of the stones are there also sculptured with spirals and zig-zags. The gigantic monument is further distinguished by a circle of stones standing round it. These circles of stones were generally used to indicate places of interment, and consisted of large stones in the Stone Age, as we see at the AVinterbourne circle and also at that near Abbotsbury, not far from the Gorwell dolmen. These circles were smaller at a later date, as I found in opening a barrow on Mr. John Mayo's farm near Upwey (No. 4 on my plan of these barrows). This circle was hid under the turf and enclosed two Kistvaens with cremations in urns.