The sculpture of Dark Age France is still almost unknown to archaeologists This is due not to any shortage of material, some of it of a high quality, but rather to an absence of adequate publication. A certain number of objects have been reproduced ad nauseam in the major works of reference. But with the exception of the illustrations in Coutil, L'Art mérovingien et carolingien (an extremely valuable, if inaccurate, body of material) and in De Lasteyrie, L'Architecture religieuse en France à l'époque romane, and of sporadic records in the journals of local societies, there is little else that is available for study. It ishardly surprising that even the main lines of development of French sculpture in this period are quite uncertain; and that uncertainty is at present likely to remain. In the absence of published material the most that can be attempted is the identification and description of single groups of sculpture, which may ultimately provide the bricks for some more imposing structure.