November
09
/ 2020
A famous dolmen on the Channel Islands has been damaged. Vandals drilled into one of the supporting stones of the 6,000-year-old Stone Age monument. It is believed that they were looking for quartz in the stone. Another prehistoric dolmen was also damaged by vandals who painted graffiti on the prehistoric structure. The Channel Islands are a popular tourist destination, located in the English Channel between France and Britain. They are known as Crown dependencies and their head of state is the British Queen. The islands had close cultural associations with France. Up until the 19 th century Norman French was the main language used by the inhabitants and many still speak it today, although the majority official language is now
