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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Other Шаблон:Infobox ancient site The Hell Stone is a badly-restored Neolithic dolmen on Portesham Hill in Dorset, England. It is around Шаблон:Replace north of the village of Portesham, and approximately Шаблон:Convert southeast of the Valley of Stones.[1]

Description

The Hell Stone is situated at the head of a dry valley system in the parish of Portesham.[2] The burial chamber is at the southeast end of a rectangular mound. The mound is Шаблон:Convert long and orientated northwest to southeast.[2] The mound tapers from Шаблон:Convert in width from the southeast end to the northwest end, and it is Шаблон:Convert high.[2]

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The Hell Stone

The chamber was badly restored in 1866 when eight men re-erected the stones, arranging them radially "rather like the slices of a cake" and supporting a large capstone.[3] The chamber may have been, originally, a long rectangular one.[3] A drystone wall runs across the mound, and a pond for watering livestock was dug close to the southeast end of the mound in modern times.[2] The remains of another tomb, The Grey Mare and her Colts, is Шаблон:Convert to the west.[1]

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  1. 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Google maps
  2. 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 Шаблон:Cite PastScape
  3. 3,0 3,1 Glyn E. Daniel (1950), The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of England and Wales, page 93. Cambridge University Press. Шаблон:ISBN