Heel Stone
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The Heel Stone is a single large block of sarsen stone standing within the Avenue outside the entrance of the Stonehenge earthwork in Wiltshire, England. In section it is sub-rectangular, with a minimum thickness of Template:Convert, rising to a tapered top about Template:Convert high. Excavation has shown that a further Template:Convert is buried in the ground. It is Template:Convert from the centre of Stonehenge circle. It leans towards the southwest nearly 27 degrees from the vertical. The stone has an overall girth of Template:Convert and weighs about 35 tons. It is surrounded by the Heelstone Ditch.
See also
References
- Atkinson, R J C, Stonehenge (Penguin Books, 1956)
- Cleal, Walker, & Montague, Stonehenge in its Landscape (London, English Heritage 1995)
- Cunliffe, B, & Renfrew, C, Science and Stonehenge (The British Academy 92, Oxford University Press 1997)
- Hawley, Lt-Col W, Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge during the season of 1923 (The Antiquaries Journal 5, Oxford University Press, 1925)
Further reading
- Newall, R S, Stonehenge, Wiltshire (Ancient monuments and historic buildings) (Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1959)
- Pitts, M, Hengeworld (Arrow, London, 2001)
- Pitts, M W, On the Road to Stonehenge: Report on Investigations beside the A344 in 1968, 1979 and 1980 (Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 48, 1982)
- Stone, J F S, Wessex Before the Celts (Frederick A Praeger Publishers, 1958)