The Grey Mare and her Colts is a megalithic chambered long barrow located near Abbotsbury in Dorset, England. It was built during the Early and Middle...

modern times. The remains of another tomb, The Grey Mare and her Colts, is 1+1⁄4 miles (2 km) to the west. "Hell Stone Dolmen" (Map). Google Maps. Google...

known as The Grey Mare and her Colts. The village itself is thought to have been established around the 9th century, and in 1086 was recorded in the Domesday...

England. It is situated on the ridge line of a hill overlooking both the Golden Valley, Herefordshire and the Wye Valley. The tomb dates from 3,700 BC –...

Generation: The Date of the West Kennet Long Barrow" (PDF). Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 17 (1): 85–101. doi:10.1017/S0959774307000182. Bowman, Marion (2002)...

Dorset and southwestern Scotland is the fact that the Grey Mare and her Colts—a chambered long barrow located two and a half miles southwest of the Nine...

parts of Britain e.g. Dartmoor (Widecombe Fair), Dorset (The Grey Mare and her Colts), as well as the Soultide mummers' horses of Cheshire. Similar Corpus...

The Medway Megaliths, sometimes termed the Kentish Megaliths, are a group of Early Neolithic chambered long barrows and other megalithic monuments located...

Turk Wayland in her Rennie Stride mystery series, and sets a scene at the end of the fourth book, A Hard Slay's Night: Murder at the Royal Albert Hall...

the Cotswold-Severn Group is one. The long barrow tradition originated somewhere in the area of modern Spain, Portugal, and western France; here, the...

Hazleton North and Hazleton South, are the remains of Neolithic barrows or cairns of the Cotswold-Severn Group, located close to the village of Hazleton...

formed the false entrance portal to the mound. It was partially excavated in 1821 by Richard Colt Hoare. He made a trench along the barrow, and found near...

that she tied a ribbon to the tree with her young son, both to make a wish for an improved future and as an offering to the "spirit of place". As of early...

to the north. The ruined burial chamber known as The Grey Mare and her Colts is a short distance to the southeast. The site is also known as the Gorwell...

Boon) unnamed black mare 2 unnamed grey mares (daughters of The Brolga) unnamed chestnut daughter of Arrow Arrow's black mare creamy colt with dark points...

adopt the site as a place for ritual; he highlighted that Valiente had discussed these folk tales in her books Where Witchcraft Lives (1962) and An ABC...

England. It consists of a large mound with a passage running through the centre and several small chambers opening off it. Human remains were interred in...

produced in the vicinity of the River Medway, now known as the Medway Megaliths. Of these, it lies near to both Little Kit's Coty House and the Coffin Stone...

West England. It lies at the edge of a woods, and is now the location of a picnic site. It is one of the earliest examples of a barrow with separate chambers...

The Coffin Stone, also known as the Coffin and the Table Stone, is a large sarsen stone at the foot of Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the south-eastern...

as Lower Kit's Coty House and the Countless Stones, is a chambered long barrow located near to the village of Aylesford in the southeastern English county...

situated on Cleeve Hill, near Cheltenham and Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire, England. It is a type of monument known as the Cotswold Severn Cairn, all of which...

west of the village. It is near the A382 road. The dolmen consist of three granite supports rising to between 1.7 and 2.3 metres (5 ft 7 in and 7 ft 7 in)...

and has a maximum height of 3 metres (9.8 ft). It contains a stone-built central passage with two chambers on each side and another at the end. The earthen...

that while he and a friend were returning to Burham from a visit to Boxley Church, they found themselves being pursued by "a lean grey dog with upstanding...

alongside the Badshot Lea Long Barrow in Surrey as the two known examples located on the North Downs. A spearhead and a seax probably dating from the seventh...

are at least ten recorded long barrows in Sussex. The Long Burgh Long Barrow is 180 feet in length and aligned on a northeast to southwest axis. A second...

totally excavated by Pitt Rivers, the ditch in 1893 and the barrow in 1894; the results were published in detail. In the ditch were found two Early Neolithic...

incomplete ditch around the barrow. It is aligned north-west to south-east, and is immediately south-east of the south-western terminus of the Dorset Cursus. It...

The Stoney Littleton Long Barrow (also known as the Bath Tumulus and the Wellow Tumulus) is a Neolithic chambered tomb with multiple burial chambers, located...