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Must Farm Bronze Age Settlement
Late Bronze Age (~1000–800 BCE) · British Late Bronze Age fenland communities
900 BCE stilt village burned and silt-sealed—Britain's Pompeii with pots still stacked.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Bronze Age (~1000–800 BCE) · British Late Bronze Age fenland communities
900 BCE stilt village burned and silt-sealed—Britain's Pompeii with pots still stacked.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Iron Age – Romano-British (c.100 BCE–500 CE) · Romano-British / Late Iron Age Welsh
Polygonal-walled Romano-British hut-circle village (~500 CE) with two roundhouses on limestone ridge above Lligwy Bay.
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Late Neolithic (c.3200–2500 BCE) · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Late Neolithic village on Loch of Harray with 15 houses and ceremonial hall Structure 8 facing the Stones of Stenness.
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Early to Late Neolithic (c.3600–2600 BCE) · Early Neolithic → Grooved Ware Orcadian Neolithic
Wideford Hill settlement with earliest Orkney timber houses (3600 BCE) and later stone village bridging Early–Late Neolithic.
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Iron Age to Medieval (c.400 BCE–1400 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age / Pictish / Norse
Iron Age broch village opposite Jarlshof with Pictish and Viking layers; one of Scotland's largest modern excavations.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Major Late Neolithic walled enclosure (c.3200–2300 BCE) between Ring of Brodgar and Stenness, with monolithic structures including Structure 10 (25 m hall) with painted stone, tiled roof and imported…
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Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware
Timber-circle henge (Woodhenge, 6 rings, 168 posts) and Durrington Walls super-henge (500 m diameter, 17 ha, 2 entrances, largest henge in Britain) – contemporary settlement of Stonehenge builders…
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Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Exceptionally preserved Late Neolithic stone-built village of eight clustered houses with stone furniture, hearths and drains. Revealed 1850 after storm, often called Scotland's answer to Pompeii.
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Late Neolithic – Middle Bronze Age · Dartmoor Bronze Age
Concentrated Late Neolithic–Bronze Age ritual settlement on Dartmoor: double stone rows (up to 264 m), stone circle, standing stone (3.2 m), cists, hut circles and Bronze Age field systems on open…
