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 2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in), rising to a tapered top about 4.7 metres (15 ft) high. Excavation has shown that a further 1.2 metres (3 ft 11 in) is buried in the ground.
It is 77.4 metres (254 ft) from the centre of Stonehenge circle. It leans towards the southwest nearly 27 degrees from the vertical. The stone has an overall girth of 7.6 metres (25 ft) and weighs about 35 tons. It is surrounded by the Heelstone Ditch.
51.179305°N 1.825302°W / 51.179305; -1.825302 The HeelStone is a single large block of sarsen stone standing within the Avenue outside the entrance of...
alongside the HeelStone after a cable-laying ditch was mistakenly dug on the roadside, revealing a new stone hole next to the HeelStone. In the early...
have followed. For example, the summer solstice Sun rose close to the HeelStone, and the Sun's first rays shone into the centre of the monument between...
contrast to Christianity. The builders of Stonehenge used these stones for the HeelStone and sarsen circle uprights. Avebury and many other megalithic...
same azimuth, that which aligned with the HeelStone, every 56 years. Going further, by placing marker stones at the ninth, eighteenth, twenty-eighth,...
barefoot on a hard surface, jumping in dress shoes with a hard heel, stepping on a stone while running. Pain is aggravated by walking barefoot on hard...
the monument at the time of the summer solstice, aligns with the outer "HeelStone". The phenomenon (but not the term "Manhattanhenge") was described by...
darkest hour, a dawn ceremony marking the rising of the Sun behind the HeelStone, and a ceremony at noon for the fullness of the light. In recent years...
in the publicly accessible area just outside Stonehenge and past the HeelStone; part of the protest involved a placard making a statement against the...
humanoids called the Pillar Men, who invented the stone masks from Phantom Blood, from obtaining a powerful stone called the Super Aja, which would evolve them...
shadow is cast from the "Heel" stone; this penetrates to the centre of the monument where its tip touches the "Goddess" stone. In his book, "Stonehenge...
quarried. The builders of Stonehenge in southern England used this stone for the HeelStone and sarsen circle uprights. Avebury and many other megalithic monuments...
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sunrise at midsummer and towards Sirius. Assuming orientation of the Heel-Stone of Stonehenge to sunrise at midsummer he calculated the construction of...
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famous of these is the midsummer alignment, where the Sun rises over the HeelStone. However, this interpretation has been challenged by some archaeologists...
fallen trilithon, and in 1810 both men dug beneath the fallen Slaughter Stone and concluded that it had once stood up. They may have also excavated one...
sword which he owned to the Druids, who placed it within the monument's HeelStone during their rite. Valiente told her husband and mother about the visit...
Stonehenge Aotearoa's six heelstones mark the place where the Sun is rising and setting at solstices and equinoxes. The stone sculpture "the Fingers of...
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833772 Heelstone Ditch is a roughly circular feature surrounding the HeelStone at Stonehenge. It is not known if there was an intended relationship between...
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