Grandmother Stones
Thousands of years after it was raised, this statue-menhir was altered with carvings typical of the La Tène style in the early centuries BCE.
La Gran'mere du Chimquière (Grandma of the Cemetery) Guernsey Island, France.
Breasted statue-menhir at Castel, Guernsey. She appears to wear a necklace,
but the U-shape could as easily be a face outline. Both of these megalithic ancestors retained their connection with the ancestral dead, as shown by the Christian cemetery constructed around them.