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Adam's Grave
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Wessex
Chambered long barrow on Walkers Hill above Alton Barnes, 70 m, c.3650 BCE.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Wessex
Chambered long barrow on Walkers Hill above Alton Barnes, 70 m, c.3650 BCE.
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Middle Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb tradition
Court tomb near Crossmaglen, 13 m gallery with shallow court, at foot of Ring of Gullion, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Long barrow southeast of Avebury henge, 40 m, part of WHS barrow cemetery, c.3750 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Huge court tomb near Killeen (King's Ring), court 6.4×13 m, lintelled entrance, c.3800 BCE.
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Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb
Massive portal tomb between Hilltown and Castlewellan, granite capstone on cairn with north cist, c.3500 BCE.
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Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Neolithic (Maeshowe group)
Maeshowe-type cairn on hill above Firth with 5 m crawl passage to chamber containing human and dog skulls.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age · Bronze Age Food Vessel
Gravel-terrace cemetery cairn NW of Kilmartin village with seven Bronze Age cists.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb tradition
Tripod portal tomb on drumlin near Castlewellan, County Down, massive capstone on three slender portals, c.3500 BCE.
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Early Neolithic · Orkney Early Neolithic (Bookan tradition)
10 m round Bookan-type chamber with three cells, 200 m south of paired North long cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Rock-outcrop court tomb east of Downpatrick, type site for Ballyalton bowls, c.4000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney Cromarty stalled tradition
Rousay stalled cairn — 13 m seven-compartment chamber under 22 m mound on south coast.
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Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Unexcavated long barrow southeast of Silbury Hill, 100 m longest in Avebury group, landmark within WHS.
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Early Neolithic · Kilmartin Early Neolithic
Neolithic chambered cairn at Kilmartin Glen's north-central linear cemetery, c.3800 BCE, defining the glen's axis.
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Middle Neolithic · Shetland Neolithic
Heel-shaped chambered cairn on Whalsay, 15 m, part of Yoxie settlement complex, c.3500 BCE.
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Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Early Neolithic / Beaker
Chambered cairn beside A816 with three Bronze Age cists and 2021 animal carvings discovery.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Irish Sea passage grave tradition
Anglesey cruciform passage grave with spiral-decorated stones and 27 m cairn on coastal headland.
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Neolithic (c.3150–2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
South Ronaldsay chambered cairn excavated by J. Hedges (1976), yielding 16,000 human bones, 725 bird bones including white-tailed eagle talons, and Beaker pottery — headland cliff-edge site.
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Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Tidal islet cairn linked to earlier Holm of Papa Westray North Cairn (c.3700 BCE), excavated 1982–83, yielding human bone, pottery and lithics now dated to 3200 BCE.
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Neolithic (c.3500–2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Spectacular Rousay cairn excavated 1932–34, largest in Orkney, with 25 individuals and an adjacent Iron Age broch landscape visible across Eynhallow Sound.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Rousay hillside cairn excavated by Callander & Grant 1934, yielding 29 individuals and Unstan Ware; managed by Historic Environment Scotland.
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Mid Neolithic (3450–2800 BCE) · Unstan Ware
Loch of Stenness-shore cairn excavated by Clouston 1884, style-site for Unstan pottery, yielding crouched burials and Grooved Ware later.
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Neolithic (c.3000 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Well-preserved hill-slope cairn with low crawl entrance, excavated 1901 yielding eight human skulls and dog burials, above Bay of Firth.
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Neolithic (c.3250 BCE) · Orcadian Grooved Ware
Mainland Orkney cairn excavated by Renfrew 1972–74, yielding 157 adults and children, dated to Early Neolithic with Grooved Ware sherds.
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Neolithic (c.2900 BCE) · Maes Howe tradition
Finest Maes Howe-type cairn on Sanday, excavated 1867, with six side chambers off central cell and cross-shaped plan, near beach dunes.
