Flag Fen Bronze Age Centre in Cambridgeshire, The Fens, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age (1350–950 BCE) ancient village attributed to Deverel-Rimbury culture.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork

Whitehawk Camp

Early Neolithic (3650–3350 BCE) · Neolithic causewayed

Whitehawk Camp in East Sussex, South Coast, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic (3650–3350 BCE) earthwork attributed to Neolithic causewayed culture.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Earthwork

Monamalala — Tana Delta Mound (Gelegole remnant?)

Swahili–Pokomo (10th–16th c. CE) · Pokomo–Swahili

Monamalala — Tana Delta Mound (Gelegole remnant?) in Tana River County, Kenya is a Swahili–Pokomo (10th–16th c. CE) earthwork attributed to Pokomo–Swahili.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort

Oldbury Hillfort

Iron Age (700–100 BCE) · British Iron Age (Kentish)

Oldbury Hillfort in Kent, South East England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (700–100 BCE) hillfort attributed to British Iron Age (Kentish) culture.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork

Thornborough Henges — Central Henge

Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Yorkshire

Central of three Neolithic henges at Thornborough (c. 3500–2500 BCE), 240 m diameter earthwork with outer bank and inner ditch aligned with northern and southern henges on River Ure terrace.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork

Silbury Hill — Avebury Landscape

Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Wessex

Largest prehistoric artificial mound in Europe (c. 2400 BCE), 39.3 m high conical chalk mound in Avebury World Heritage Site.

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Seip Earthworks

Hopewell 1–500 CE · Hopewell tradition

121-acre Hopewell circle-square with 335 m Great Circle and Seip-Pricer mound, UNESCO 2023.

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Quarry Gallery Americas 79 — United States Region 7

Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Americas-Mound

Quarry Gallery Americas 79 — United States Region 7 in United States Region 7, United States is a Neolithic earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance.

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Great Serpent Mound

Disputed: either Adena 320 BCE–200 CE or Fort Ancient 1070–1200 CE (latest C14 favors Fort Ancient 1120 CE) · Adena culture or Fort Ancient culture

Quarter-mile (411 m) effigy mound in shape of serpent with oval head swallowing an egg, 3 ft high, coiled tail atop meteor-crater plateau above Ohio Brush Creek, largest surviving effigy mound in…

🇨🇦 Canada · Earthwork

Buried Street Grid Americas 2 — Canada Region 2

Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Americas-Mound

Buried Street Grid Americas 2 — Canada Region 2 in Canada Region 2, Canada is a Bronze Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Earthwork

Chambered Cairn Hill Americas 8 — Mexico Region 8

Period Neolithic · Regional culture Americas-Mound

Chambered Cairn Hill Americas 8 — Mexico Region 8 in Mexico Region 8, Mexico is a Iron Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork

Pyramid Outlier Americas 46 — Brazil Region 10

Period Classical · Regional culture Americas-Mound

Pyramid Outlier Americas 46 — Brazil Region 10 in Brazil Region 10, Brazil is a Iron Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork

Hillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1

Period Classical · Regional culture Americas-Mound

Hillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1 in Brazil Region 1, Brazil is a Iron Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Earthwork

Temple Terrace Americas 92 — Mexico Region 8

Period Classical · Regional culture Americas-Mound

Temple Terrace Americas 92 — Mexico Region 8 in Mexico Region 8, Mexico is a Neolithic earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.

🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork

Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2

Period Medieval · Regional culture Americas-Mound

Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2 in Peru Region 2, Peru is a Neolithic earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork

Maiden Castle Dorset — Western Rampart Sector

Iron Age (600 BCE–43 CE) · Durotriges

Dorset's type-site excavated by Wheeler 1934–37, war cemetery 52 burials from Vespasian's 43 CE siege, Neolithic causewayed enclosure underlying.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork

Old Oswestry Hillfort Shropshire

Iron Age (800 BCE–43 CE) · Cornovii

Shropshire's most spectacular hillfort excavated by Varley 1939–40 atop hill with 3-circuit ramparts and ritual pits, view over Welsh Marches.

🇫🇷 France · Earthwork

Mont Lassois — Vix Princely Tomb Hillfort

Hallstatt D (550–450 BCE) · Hallstatt Celtic (Vix princess)

Châtillonnais hillfort famous for Vix princess tomb 1953, largest Greek bronze krater (1100 L), gold torc 480 g, excavated by Joffroy.

🇳🇬 Nigeria · Earthwork

Benin City Walls (Iya)

Early to Late Edo Kingdom (800–1897 CE; peak 13th–16th c) · Edo (Bini) / Igodomigodo → Kingdom of Benin

16,000 km of ramparts and 20 m high ditch-bank earthworks enclosing 6,500 km² – world's longest pre-mechanical earthwork.

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Yon Mound and Village

Middle Woodland to Mississippian (100 BCE–1450 CE) · Swift Creek → Weeden Island → Fort Walton (late Mississippian)

Middle Woodland Swift Creek to Fort Walton Mississippian mound-village (100 BCE–1450 CE) on Apalachicola River terrace: flat-topped platform 6 m high (45×30 m) with ramp to plaza, adjacent burial…

🇱🇻 Latvia · Earthwork

Mežotne Hillfort on the Lielupe

Viking Age to Middle Ages (9th–13th c.) · Semigallian / Livonian Order

Mežotne Hillfort on the Lielupe in Zemgale, Bauska Municipality, Mežotne on Lielupe, Latvia is a Viking Age to Middle Ages (9th–13th c.) Semigallian / Livonian Order site built 9th c.

🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient village

Afla Ighir Igoudar

Medieval Amazigh to Modern (13th–20th c CE) · Amazigh (Berber) Tashelhit

Anti-Atlas Amazigh fortified granary (igoudar) citadel Afla Ighir with 12 tower-granaries.

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Turner Earthworks

Middle Woodland (Hopewell) · Hopewell (Ohio Hopewell)

Hopewell earthworks (200 BCE–400 CE) on Little Miami — 300-m Great Enclosure and pipestone pipes at Cincinnati.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Earthwork

Inner Teotihuacan Platform North — Teotihuacan (56-26)

Classical (regional) · Classical

Inner Teotihuacan Platform North — Teotihuacan (56-26) at Teotihuacan, Mexico is a Classical (regional) earthwork of the Classical tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for platform and associated settlement.

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