The Grey Mare and her Colts

The Grey Mare and her Colts

Shown within Dorset
Location	Dorset
Coordinates	50°40′54″N 2°35′22″W / 50.68161°N 2.58946°W / 50.68161; -2.58946
Type	Dolmen

The Grey Mare and her Colts (grid reference SY584870) is a long barrow and burial chamber near Abbotsbury in Dorset, England.

Description

The Grey Mare and her Colts is situated at the head of a dry valley in the parish of Long Bredy.^[1] It is accessible using an Ordnance Survey map. The remains of another tomb, the Hell Stone, is 2 kilometres to the east; while the Kingston Russell Stone Circle is around 1 kilometre to the northwest.

The remnants of the burial chamber are located at the southeast end of a long barrow.^[2] The long barrow is a rectangular mound, orientated northwest to southeast and 24 metres long. The mound tapers in width from the southeast end (13 metres) to the northwest end (8 metres).^[1] The burial chamber and facade are ruined and the capstone has fallen down.^[2]

Notes

1 2 Historic England. "The Grey Mare and her Colts (450303)". PastScape. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
1 2 Glyn E. Daniel (1950), The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of England and Wales, page 93. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 110769762X

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