🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
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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533 places in the atlas, 30 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇬🇧 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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age to Romano-British · Dumnonian
Chysauster Romano-British Village at Cornwall, United Kingdom is a Iron Age to Romano-British ancient village of the Dumnonian tradition, built c. 100 BCE for courtyard houses with fogou.
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Late Bronze Age · Dartmoor Bronze Age
Grimspound Village Dartmoor at Devon, United Kingdom is a Late Bronze Age ancient village of the Dartmoor Bronze Age tradition, built c. 1300 BCE for pound-walled village 24 hut circles.
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Early Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Knap of Howar Papa Westray at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic ancient village of the Orcadian Neolithic tradition, built c. 3700 BCE for oldest standing houses in nw europe.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
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.
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Iron Age · Cornish Iron Age
Carn Euny Village and Fogou at Cornwall, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient village of the Cornish Iron Age tradition, built c. 300 BCE for courtyard houses and 20 m fogou.
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Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Village of Drumlin Wood in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) ancient village attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Wessex
Massive Neolithic henge enclosure (c. 2600 BCE), 500 m diameter, largest in Britain, with southern timber circle and dense Late Neolithic settlement (1000+ pits, houses).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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.
