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Photo Pages: Hellstone - Long Barrow in England in Dorset
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Submitted by Baz on Sunday, 04 January 2004 Page Views: 9681
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 Site Name: Hellstone Alternate Name: Hell Stone
Country: England County: Dorset Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Dorchester Nearest Village: Waddon
Map Ref: SY606867 Landranger Map Number: 194
Latitude: 50.678617N Longitude: 2.559002W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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   Hellstone submitted by traveller
Long Barrow in Dorset. The Hellstone on Portesham Hill is an impressive dolmen, restored in 1866 after the capstone had fallen some six years earlier.
 Hellstone submitted by JimChampion
The Hellstone reconstruction from a low angle, with its neighbouring tree.
 Hellstone submitted by JimChampion
The blue sky from within the dolmen.
 Hellstone submitted by JimChampion
September 2005. The restored dolmen reflected in the nearby pond.
 Hellstone submitted by JimChampion
This way to the Hellstone. The string-and-post fence on the left may be to prevent sheep escaping over the low drystone wall, or maybe to keep human visitors off the wall? The "chimney" in the distance between the signpost and the dolmen is the Hardy Monument on Black Down. There is a car park there, and it is not a long walk to the Hellstone.
 Hellstone submitted by JimChampion
View north towards the Hellstone dolmen, with one of the nearby conglomerate boulders in the nettles in the foreground. The wind-blown thorn next to the stones gives it that 'romantic' look that the 19th century restorers must have been after.
 Hellstone submitted by JimChampion
September 2006. After a very dry summer the pond in front of the Hellstone is empty and grass is growing in its cracked bed.
 hellstone submitted by axis
I seem to have the uncanny knack of having rain on me when I get out to most ancient sites, no exception here then! it adds a desolate note to the picture that seems to fit the surrounding landscape perfectly.
 Hellstone submitted by ShropshireTraveller
What does a cow see in a dolmen? This was what greeted me on entering the dolmen here! Most foreboding, but thankfully they were more frightened of me than I of them.
 Hellstone submitted by ShropshireTraveller
A group of young bullocks were near the dolmen; when I entered the dolmen to eat my crisps & wagon wheel, and drink my water, they surrounded me, and watched with great fascination!
 Hellstone submitted by ShropshireTraveller
After lunch, John Billingsley tries finding the resonant frequency within the Dolmen; last time we were here, Baz got out his digeridoo and was attempting something similiar!
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Re: Hellstone (Score: 1)
by enkidu41 on Tuesday, 20 July 2004
(User Info | Send a Message) | Easily reached along either of 2 permissive paths both leading off from the right of way footpath which runs from the minor road running between Portesham and Winterbourne Steepleton (at about half a mile north of Portesham - park in layby) and the Hardy Monument. The first is near the road and signposted, the second is 400 yards further on and easily missed!
The massive stones of this inaccurately rebuilt monument make it no less impressive. It consists of 9 uprights up to 6' high and 2' thick supporting a 20 ton, 10' x 8' x 2' thick capstone forming a 9' x 5' x 5' chamber. This stands at the SE end of a mound formerly 88' long and up to 40' wide more or less aligned along the directions of the mid-winter solstice sunrise and summer solstice sunset. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Hellstone (Score: 1)
by stavares on Tuesday, 15 February 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | Has anyone looked at the orientation of the Hellstone?
Could it be a corruption of Heol (Sun) stone?
Did it let in the light of the Midweinter/midsummer/other/sunrise/sunset before it was damaged/changed/rebuilt?
I'd like to go and see it but finding sites in that area is very difficult, what with the narrow lanes and where to park. The maps aren't too clear either. I have visited the area many times, but not seen any of the sites, except the Valley of the Stones. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Video of the Hellstone at BBC Dorset (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, 27 June 2007 | ruederoc writes:
I took the beautiful walk up from Portesham to the Hellstone and posted a pic-tour of the route on:
http://portesham.online-today.co.uk | [ Reply to This ]
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