Porth Hellick Down
Porth Hellick Down (also called The Great tomb on Porth Hellick Down) is located about 2.2 km east of Hugh Town on the Scilly island of St Mary’s in Cornwall in England and is an Entrance Grave of the type “Scillonian entrance graves”.
This is the largest of a group of eight megalithic sites (four of which are well preserved) on Porth Hellick Downs in the east of the island. It is about 12.0 m in diameter with a 3.6 m long corridor that leads behind a barrier stone to a 10.0 m long chamber that is covered with four cap stones.
literature
- Glyn Daniel : The Prehistoric Chambered Tombs of England and Wales. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1950.
- Paul Ashbee: Mesolithic Megaliths? The Scillonian Entrance Graves: A New View. In: Cornish Archeology 21, 1982, pp. 3-22.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. * Scillonian Passage tomb, where the passage into the tomb is not differentiated from the chamber area (like chambered tombs) and the mound has a retaining notch.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 55 ′ 2.6 ″ N , 6 ° 16 ′ 51.8 ″ W.