| Hell Stone | |
| Map Type: | Dorset |
| Location: | Dorset |
| Coordinates: | 50.6786°N -2.5592°W |
| Gbgridref: | SY604868 |
The Hell Stone is a badly-restored Neolithic dolmen on Portesham Hill in Dorset, England.It is around north of the village of Portesham, and approximately NaNmile southeast of the Valley of Stones.
The Hell Stone is situated at the head of a dry valley system in the parish of Portesham.[1] The burial chamber is at the southeast end of a rectangular mound. The mound is 24m (79feet) long and orientated northwest to southeast.[1] The mound tapers from 12mto8mm (39feetto26feetm) in width from the southeast end to the northwest end, and it is 1m (03feet) high.[1]
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.[2] The chamber may have been, originally, a long rectangular one.[2] 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.[1] The remains of another tomb, The Grey Mare and her Colts, is NaNmiles to the west.