🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Maiden Castle Hillfort Dorset
Iron Age · Durotriges
Maiden Castle Hillfort Dorset at Dorset, United Kingdom is a Iron Age earthwork of the Durotriges tradition, built c. 600 BCE for 47 acre bivallate hillfort.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age · Durotriges
Maiden Castle Hillfort Dorset at Dorset, United Kingdom is a Iron Age earthwork of the Durotriges tradition, built c. 600 BCE for 47 acre bivallate hillfort.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (~800 BCE – 100 CE; Oakbank 460 BCE – 200 BCE) · Atlantic Scottish Iron Age (Caledonian)
One of 18 Iron Age timber islets in Loch Tay, Oakbank comprises a 30-m oak pile ring with horizontal alder floors still preserved 2 m deep in cold waterlogged peat.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Eildon Hill North — Ancillary Rampart Enclosure in Scotland, Scottish Borders, Melrose, United Kingdom is a Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) hillfort attribute…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Fortress
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Maiden Castle — Inner Rampart East Gate in England, Dorset, Dorchester, United Kingdom is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to I…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland
Gussage All Saints — Banjo Enclosure South in England, Dorset, Gussage, United Kingdom is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) earthwork attribu…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Ingoldisthorpe-Low Ancient Village in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇬🇧 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 · Earthwork
Early Neolithic 3800–3600 BCE · Early Neolithic Britons
2.7-km Neolithic processional enclosure predating Stonehenge by 500 years.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age · Penwith Bronze Age
19-stone graded granite circle (23.8 m) near Lamorna with two Pipers outlying stones.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Pyramid
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Mount Winton Pyramid in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) pyramid attributed to Classical culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Shetland Neolithic
Neolithic 'standing stones' house on Whalsay, 18×10 m, part of Pettigarths Field settlement, c.3000 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
Neolithic to Norse · Shetland Neolithic / Norse
Steatite quarry and standing stone at Catpund, worked from 3000 BCE to Norse times.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Palaeolithic–Mesolithic (50000–6000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Gough's Cave in Somerset, Cheddar Gorge, United Kingdom is a major Palaeolithic to Holocene cave and fissure system renowned for stratified deposits spanning over 40,000 years.
🇬🇧 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
Late Neolithic · Hebridean Late Neolithic
Six-stone flattened circle (13.3×9.5 m) with central robbed cairn, 2.2 km south of Callanish I.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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 · Irish Court Tomb
Huge court tomb near Killeen (King's Ring), court 6.4×13 m, lintelled entrance, c.3800 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
La Jolla Submerged Midden South in Doggerland, United Kingdom is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇧 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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Carn Euny Iron Age Village in Cornwall, South West, United Kingdom is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age – Romano-British (300 BCE–400 CE) · Dumnonii / Romano-British
Chysauster Ancient Village — Gulval in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age – Romano-British (300 BCE–400 CE) ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii / Romano-British.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Late Neolithic
Cup-and-ring schist panels above Kilmartin Glen with >100 carvings, c.3000 BCE.
