🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Grey Cairns of Camster
Neolithic (c.3500–3000 BCE) · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic (Caithness)
Flow Country pair of vast Orkney-Cromarty cairns — 60 m long horned cairn with two chambers and intact round cairn.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Stonehenge Cursus — South Avenue Bank & Ditch
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland
Stonehenge Cursus — South Avenue Bank & Ditch in England, Wiltshire, Salisbury Plain, United Kingdom is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) ear…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Necropolis
Abad Howe Necropolis
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Abad Howe Necropolis in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) necropolis attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Traprain Law — Summit Cairn Terrace
Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Traprain Law — Summit Cairn Terrace in Scotland, East Lothian, United Kingdom is a Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) hillfort attributed to Hallstatt / Early Ir…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Silbury Hill
Late Neolithic 2400–2300 BCE · Late Neolithic Britons (Grooved Ware)
Europe's tallest prehistoric mound – 39-m artificial hill with unknown purpose.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Callanish II (Cnoc Ceann a' Gharaidh)
Late Neolithic · Hebridean Late Neolithic
7-stone elliptical circle (21.6×18.9 m) on Loch Roag ridge south-east of Callanish I, with central ruined cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ballyalton Court Tomb
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Rock-outcrop court tomb east of Downpatrick, type site for Ballyalton bowls, c.4000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 150
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 150 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Doggerland
Upper Palaeolithic to Mesolithic · Maglemosian / Mesolithic hunter-gatherers
Vast Mesolithic plain linking Britain to Europe (11000–5500 BCE) with river valleys, forests, hunting camps surveyed via seismic and cores; inundated by post-glacial rise and Storegga tsunami 6200…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Chûn Quoit — Chun Down
Early Neolithic (3500 BCE) · Penwith Neolithic
Chûn Quoit — Chun Down in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic (3500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Penwith Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Corrimony Chambered Cairn
Early Bronze Age (2000 BCE) · Clava Cairn builders
Corrimony chambered cairn in Glenurquhart, a Clava passage grave with intact chamber, kerb and surrounding stone circle of eleven monoliths, excavated by Piggott revealing cremation and beaker…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Meare Heath Trackway
Late Neolithic 3240 BCE · Late Neolithic Somerset Levels farmers
Neolithic timber trackway (3240 BCE, 2 km) at Meare Heath, longest Neolithic timber structure in Britain, successor to Sweet Track.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Glastonbury Lake Village – Iron Age Crannog Cluster
Iron Age, British Middle–Late (Hod Hill + Glastonbury ware) · Iron Age Somerset wetland Britons (Durotriges–Dumnonii border)
250 BCE–50 BCE Iron Age peat islands—90 wattle houses on Somerset artificial crannogs.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Eilean Dòmhnuill Phase 2 Crannog Extension (Loch Olabhat, North Uist)
Early Neolithic (3700–3500 BCE) · Hebridean Early Neolithic (Eilean Dòmhnuill Ware, 3700 BCE)
Early Neolithic 18 x 12 m crannog annexe (c.3500 BCE) with 3 conjoined Hebridean houses — earliest Hebrides village plan.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Star Carr Extension — Seamer Carr & Flixton Island Mesolithic Lakesides (Vale of Pickering)
Early Mesolithic (Maglemosian, 9000–8500 BCE, Preboreal) · British Early Mesolithic (Maglemosian, Star Carr group)
Seamer Carr 350-m brush causeway and 3 Maglemosian houses (9000–8500 BCE) — Lake Flixton extensions of Star Carr.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Old Winchelsea – Storm-Drowned Cinque Port, Sussex
Medieval (1110–1288 CE) · English Norman / Cinque Ports
Cinque Port drowned 1287–1288 — 50-acre shingle island harbour now −6 m in Rye Bay; New Winchelsea bastide 1292 replacement 2 km inland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Gardom's Edge Monolith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age (c.2500–2000 BCE) · Late Neolithic / Chalcolithic Peak District
2.2 m leaning gritstone monolith on Gardom's Edge — purported Neolithic seasonal sundial on Peak District scarp.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Meare Lake Village – Somerset Iron Age Fen Cluster (Pool)
Iron Age British Late (Glastonbury tradition) · Somerset Levels Iron Age Britons
300–50 BCE fen twin villages—28 Iron Age houses on Meare Pool artificial islets.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Happisburgh Footprints – Norfolk's Palaeolithic Foreshore
Lower Palaeolithic, Cromerian Complex · Homo antecessor pioneer groups at northern limits of hominin range
850,000-year Homo antecessor family footprints—152 tracks exposed for 14 days before tide erased them.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Unstan Chambered Cairn Annex South — Western Terrace
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Unstan Chambered Cairn Annex South — Western Terrace in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Burrian Chambered Cairn — Southern Extension
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Burrian Chambered Cairn — Southern Extension in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Hill of Caldback Chambered Cairn — Southern Extension
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Hill of Caldback Chambered Cairn — Southern Extension in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Stanydale Temple Annex Shetland — Eastern Outlier
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Shetland Neolithic
Stanydale Temple Annex Shetland — Eastern Outlier in Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Shetland Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Cuween Hill Annex Chamber West — Southern Extension
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Cuween Hill Annex Chamber West — Southern Extension in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.