🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Gantoftadösen
Gantoftadösen (or Jättestugan - "giant's home") is a partially destroyed dolmen in the area of Helsingborg in Scania, Sweden.
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CategoriesMegaliths
Stone circles, dolmens, menhirs and passage tombs raised without metal tools.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age (c.2500–2000 BCE) · Late Neolithic / Chalcolithic Limerick
Ireland's largest stone circle (46 m, 113 stones) — embanked, contiguous orthostats on Lough Gur shore.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Gantoftadösen (or Jättestugan - "giant's home") is a partially destroyed dolmen in the area of Helsingborg in Scania, Sweden.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland 1–500 CE (Pinson phase) · Middle Woodland (Pinson Mound culture, Hopewell-influenced)
Largest grouping of platform mounds in Tennessee and largest Middle Woodland earthwork complex: 17 mounds (12 platform, burial, effigy) in 1,200-acre Forked Deer River park, with Saul's Mound (Sauls’…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Early to Middle Woodland (1000 BCE–300 CE) · Adena – early Hopewell
Paired Adena (1000–100 BCE) and Hopewell-era enclosures on left bank of Scioto 5 mi north of Chillicothe: large 350-m-diameter circular enclosure (12 ac) with interior ditch and 1.5 m embankment plus…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell (200 BCE–300 CE) · Hopewell
Hopewell enclosure pair on Scioto River terrace 9 km southwest of Chillicothe: large sub-square 160×140 m (3 ha) with 1.2 m embankment and interior ditch, conjoined at corner to 80 m diameter circle…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3600–3200 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Unstan Ware)
Unstan cairn (c.3600–3200 BCE, Early Neolithic) is a unique hybrid stalled-Orkney-Cromarty chambered cairn on a Loch of Stenness promontory 2 mi NE of Stromness, 13 m long dividing into five stalls…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Windmill Hill / Wessex Neolithic
Timber-then-stone double circles (40 m outer) at SE end of West Kennet Avenue — Avebury's mortuary terminus.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Early Neolithic Ireland (Céide Ware)
10 km² Neolithic field walls and tombs preserved under blanket bog — world's oldest enclosed landscape, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age (c.100 BCE–400 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian) / possible Roman contact
Iron Age underground sanctuary in Tankerness with 29-step stair descending 7.5 m to a corbelled chamber.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (1440–1532 CE, ushnu 1450–1480) · Inca (Pachacuti / Topa Inca – Vilcas province)
Imperial Inca stepped pyramid-ushnu (1450–1530, Pachacuti foundation) at center of Inca provincial capital Vilcashuamán (Vilcas, 22 sq km Inca city, 700+ buildings): Ushnu 30×30 m base 12 m high…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell (c.100 BCE–250 CE) with Fort Ancient reuse · Hopewell → Fort Ancient
Outer-embankment timber circle 60 m diameter discovered 2007 by magnetometry inside Fort Ancient Hilltop Enclosure (Hopewell 100 BCE–500 CE, later Fort Ancient reuse).
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Su Nuraxi — Peripheral Hut E7 with Bench in Sardinia, South Sardinia, Barumini, Italy is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic at…
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
The Kupgal petroglyphs are works of rock art found at Kupgal in Bellary district of Karnataka, India.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Southern English Neolithic
Hambledon Hill Causewayed Complex at Dorset, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic of the Southern English Neolithic tradition, built c. 3650 BCE for major causewayed enclosure complex.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Pierres Plates — South Cairn Passage (Locmariaquer) in Brittany, Morbihan, Locmariaquer, France is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) meg…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Maes Howe Chambered Cairn Orkney at Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic of the Orcadian Neolithic tradition, built c. 2800 BCE for chambered cairn with viking runes.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Late Bronze Age · Nuragic
Gallura nuraghe with meeting hut village near Arzachena in granite hill country, c.14th century BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Ulster Early Bronze Age (Beaker influenced)
Seven Bronze Age circles (10–20 m), cairns and dragon's teeth row (800 stones) on Sperrin edge, peat-sealed.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Megalith
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Central Meroe Village A — Meroe (56-50) at Meroe, Sudan is a Early Historic (regional) megalithic of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for village and associated settlement.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Loughcrew-Carrowkeel passage tradition (Boyne variant)
14 hilltop passage cairns (10–21 m) on Bricklieve ridges above Lough Arrow, with cruciform chambers and light boxes.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Orkney Neolithic
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic of the Orkney Neolithic tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for maes howe type with 4 side cells dog skulls.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic · Unstan Ware culture
Unstan Chambered Cairn Stenness at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Unstan Ware culture tradition, built c. 3400 BCE for stalled cairn type-site unstan ware bowls.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Early Iron Age (Hallstatt La Tène A) · Early Celtic (Hallstatt/Latenian) — Glauberg horizon
Early Celtic princely oppidum with 350 m avenue, statue-menhir of leaf-crowned warrior and 50 m gold-burial mound, c.450 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Bronze Age · Dartmoor Bronze Age
Merrivale Stone Rows Dartmoor at Devon, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age megalithic of the Dartmoor Bronze Age tradition, built c. 2000 BCE for double rows 180 m and 150 m with cairn.