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CategoriesMegaliths
Stone circles, dolmens, menhirs and passage tombs raised without metal tools.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Großsteingrab Soderstorf in Lower Saxony, Lüneburg Heath, Germany is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Bodmin Moor Bronze Age
Triple line of three Bronze Age granite circles (33–41.5 m) on Bodmin Moor with paired outlying stones.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Severn-Cotswold / Gower Neolithic
Gower's 40-tonne conglomerate portal dolmen on Cefn Bryn ridge — largest capstone in Wales, split 1693.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early to Late Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic Neolithic
Three-phase promontory cairn (60 m) at Arzon with two superimposed passage graves and anthropomorphic art.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1500 BCE) · Atlantic Megalithic / Bell Beaker
Msoura (Mzora) Cromlech is Morocco's sole Atlantic megalithic ellipse, 55×45 m of 175 menhirs encircling a 6-m tumulus, 25 km southeast of Asilah. Tallest monolith El Uted (The Pointer) 5.5 m.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Western Brittany Neolithic (Océan Atlantic Megalithic)
Crozon's triple stone rows — 72 menhirs (to 2.1 m) in three 200 m parallel alignments near Camaret.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Lesconil Megalithic Necropolis in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Mané-Kerioned Passage Dolmens in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Early Holocene Neolithic (~7500–3500 BCE) · Nubian Neolithic pastoralist (El Nabta culture)
Beside a fossil playa that filled during the African Humid Period, nomads erected a 5-m mini-Stonehenge of quartzite slabs and radial lines pointing to summer solstice sunrise and to Sirius/Arcturus.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Petit-Chasseur Megalithic Necropolis in Valais, Switzerland is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.3000–2500 BCE) · Welsh Late Neolithic (Preseli Groove)
Gors Fawr (Late Neolithic c.3000–2500 BCE) is a 22-m perfect circle of 16 Preseli dolerite pillars, 0.6–1.8 m high, on moorland at Mynachlog-ddu beneath the Preseli ridge that sourced Stonehenge…
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Lancken-Granitz Dolmens in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Pierres Plates Passage Grave in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Prajou Menhir in Brittany, Finistère, Molène arch., France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Brenz Megalithic Field in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Early Intermediate Lima to Middle Horizon Wari 1–800 CE · Lima culture (later Wari influence)
167-ha tapia pyramid city, 1st–8th century CE Lima culture metropolis.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.1000 BCE–500 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age
Multi-phase broch on loch islet near Lerwick with unique blockhouse forework and wheelhouse overbuild.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Cromlech da Portela de Mogos in Évora, Alentejo, Portugal is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Final Jomon 1200–800 BCE · Jomon Final Hokkaido
Late Jomon collective burial banked circles (1200–800 BCE) on terrace above Ushiku River at Chitose — 9 embanked circular enclosures diameter 12–75 m built of external ditch and internal bank housing…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Mougau-Bihan Passage Grave in Brittany, Finistère, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Pueblo II–III 1115–1287 CE (Chacoan 1120–1140; Mesa Verde 1200–1287) · Ancestral Puebloan (Chacoan then Mesa Verdean)
Misnamed 12th-century Great House built by Chacoan Ancestral Puebloans (Aztec West, 400 rooms, 3 storeys) and later occupied by Mesa Verdeans: E-shaped pueblo with Great Kiva (14.6 m diameter,…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (~4700–4000 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Castellic)
Three interlinked monuments on the Gulf of Morbihan: the shattered 20.6-m Grand Menhir Brisé – heaviest moved stone in Europe at 280 tonnes before earthquake toppling; the Table des Marchand passage…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Middle to Late Bronze Age · Nordic Bronze Age (Halland)
Two 4.5 m 'gallows' menhirs plus 18 m circle and 25 m ship on Halland coastal plain — saga-linked cemetery.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Early Neolithic Ireland (Lambay / Burren Neolithic)
Burren's iconic portal dolmen — 3.7 m capstone over 2.5 m chamber holding 33 Neolithic burials in limestone clint landscape.
