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533 places in the atlas, 30 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Triple-walled Orkney-Cromarty cairn near Kirkwall with 4.5 m passage to tripartite corbelled chamber.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic · Orkney Neolithic
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn Rousay at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Orkney Neolithic tradition, built c. 3200 BCE for 13 m stalled cairn 7 compartments.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic · Orkney Neolithic
Midhowe Chambered Cairn Rousay at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Orkney Neolithic tradition, built c. 3500 BCE for 23 m stalled cairn longest in orkney.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic · Orkney Neolithic
Taversoe Tuick Two Storey Cairn at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Orkney Neolithic tradition, built c. 3250 BCE for unique two-storey chambered cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic · Orkney Neolithic
Quoyness Chambered Cairn Sanday at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Orkney Neolithic tradition, built c. 2900 BCE for maes howe type 20 m 9 m passage.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic to Bronze Age · Irish Passage Tomb / Bronze Age
Summit and north passage tombs on Slieve Gullion (573 m), south cairn cruciform, Bronze Age kerb reuse, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2900 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Grooved Ware)
Cuween Hill cairn (c.3200–2900 BCE) is a Maeshowe-type chambered cairn 21 m diameter crowning Cuween Hill above Kirkwall, with a 8-m low entrance passage leading to a 6-m central chamber with four…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Rock-cut tomb carved from single 8.6 m boulder on Hoy, the only one in Britain, c.3000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Maeshowe tradition
Rousay's unique two-storey cairn — lower and upper chambers stacked in 15 m round mound.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney Early Neolithic
20 m stalled long cairn on uninhabited holm off Papa Westray — paired with South cairn 200 m away.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Unstan Ware Neolithic
Eponymous stalled cairn at Stenness — 8.4 m five-compartment chamber where Unstan Ware was first identified.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Dual court tomb above Strangford Lough narrows, two opposed galleries, eight chambers, 34 burials, c.3900 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb
Tripod portal tomb at foot of Slieve Gullion on 30 m cairn with north cist, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age · Orcadian Neolithic
Cliff-top stalled cairn on South Ronaldsay famed for 16,000 human bones and eagle remains.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Horned long stalled cairn 50 m long on Rousay, c.3600 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Fully excavated Cotswold-Severn cairn at Hazleton, 21 burials, detailed construction sequence, c.3800 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Portal Tomb
Low-set portal tomb above Carlingford Lough near Rostrevor, 35-40 ton capstone, among heaviest in Ireland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Coastal long stalled cairn on Westray eroding at Point of Cott, c.3600 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn long barrow on Uley escarpment, 37 m with transepted chambers, c.3750 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early–Middle Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Stalled cairn on Rousay with tripartite chamber, 29 burials, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Maeshowe-type hilltop cairn on Eday with four side cells, c.3200 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Excavated Cotswold-Severn long barrow north of Avebury, 30 m, discrete façade, c.3750 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age · Beaker
Outlier kerb cairn at south end of Kilmartin linear cemetery, Beaker period, with lime-kiln reuse.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn long barrow at Notgrove, 48 m with transepted chambers, c.3700 BCE.
