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1754 W. Borlase Observ. Antiq. Cornwall iii. vi. 179 Sometimes we find Stones erected, and others lying horizontally on the tops of them, making as at Stonehenge, &c. so many Portals.

1754 W. Borlase Observ. Antiq. Cornwall iii. vii. 187 In the tenement of Kerris there is an oval Inclosure... At the Southern Termination A stand four rude Pillars about eight feet high, at the foot of which lye some large long stones, which I am apt to think did formerly rest upon these Pillars... I am inclin'd to think..that these Stones-erect were designed to distinguish and dignify the Entrance..and that they were erected like some of the Stones at Stone-Henge in the shape of two rude Portals.]

1877 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 6 160 In many instances there is found a so-called ‘portal’, consisting of two rows of two or three stones each... These portals are never covered with capstones, but in Germany they are, and it is highly probable..that the portals of the hunebedden of Drenthe formerly possessed them too.

1902 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 32 398 The earlier type [of culture] is characterized by segmented megalithic chambers without a passage, but perhaps with a portal.

1951 J. Raftery Prehist. Ireland vii. 100 A secondary capstone is laid across this, giving us the typical Portal Dolmen, which may be open or closed in front. An increase in height of the portal stones, the last remnants of the original ‘horns’, causes the secondary capstone to slope.

1987 New Phytologist 107 217 Court and portal tombs, are usually assigned on the basis of archaeological evidence to the early and late Neolithic periods, respectively.

2003 Irish Times (Nexis) 27 Jan. 1 Before the dolmen was bought, it was damaged by tourists standing on top of it... The cracked portal stone was replaced with another from the nearby limestone pavement.