Steinkiste von L’Islet

The Steinkiste von L’Islet is an unrecorded stone cist discovered in 1912. It stands at the Sandy Hook settlement in the L’Islet district of Saint Sampson, near Saint Peter Port on the Channel Island of Guernsey. It is the only surviving stone cist on Guernsey with a “cist-in-circle” arrangement and one of only two known on the Channel Islands.

At the centre is a stone cist surrounded by a larger stone circle. Four smaller circles connect to this central arrangement, and each contains a small stone cist. More monuments may once have stood at the site, since a dolmen to the north was destroyed. No burials were found, which was not unexpected because of the acidity of the soil.

Excavation was viewed with displeasure by local residents. A series of attacks ended with the murder of Robert of Les Canus. G. E. Lee, a Reverent and an archaeologist involved in the excavation, also died suddenly. On the day of his death, The Star published an article about the murder, prompting speculation that an evil spirit from the grave had been involved.

Megaliths are large stones used to build prehistoric structures or monuments, either alone or with other stones. Across Europe, more than 35,000 megalithic structures have been identified, from Sweden to the Mediterranean, and they are also found worldwide. Most surviving megaliths were erected in the Neolithic, although some earlier Mesolithic and Bronze Age examples are known. A stone cist is one form of megalithic monument.

Steinkiste von L’Islet is a megalith (abstract root) in Guernsey. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Steinkiste von L’Islet", shown in the original language.