Abstract
IN an old number of Notes and Queries (4, v. 598) E. Dunkin asks “why the Friar's Heel at Stonehenge is so named,” and the only answer I can find in the bibliography of Stonehenge (Wilts Archaeological Magazine, vol. xxxii.) is as follows:—“It may have been called the Heel stone,” observes Prof. Flinders Petrie, “from A.S. helan, to hide or conceal, just as a cromlech at Portisham, Dorset, is called the ‘Hel-stone.’”
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