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533 places in the atlas, 30 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇬🇧 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 · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Hebridean Late Neolithic
Concentric double circle (13.7 m outer) with inner 4-stone ring and cairn, 500 m SE of Callanish I.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Early Neolithic (~3807 BCE) · British Early Neolithic
The oldest engineered timber trackway in northern Europe, a 1.8-km raised walkway of oak planks pegged to transverse ash rails, dendro-dated to construction in the winter–spring of 3807 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (~4000–3500 BCE; medieval chapel atop) · Armorican / Channel Neolithic (Norman Neolithic)
Jersey's paramount Neolithic monument crowns a 12-m artificial mound containing a cruciform passage grave with a 12-m roofed chamber aligned so equinox sunrise illuminates the rear cell.
🇬🇧 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 Neolithic · Unstan Ware Neolithic
Eponymous stalled cairn at Stenness — 8.4 m five-compartment chamber where Unstan Ware was first identified.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Dual court tomb above Strangford Lough narrows, two opposed galleries, eight chambers, 34 burials, c.3900 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb
Tripod portal tomb at foot of Slieve Gullion on 30 m cairn with north cist, c.3500 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 · Earthwork
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
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Horned long stalled cairn 50 m long on Rousay, c.3600 BCE.
🇬🇧 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 · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Fully excavated Cotswold-Severn cairn at Hazleton, 21 burials, detailed construction sequence, c.3800 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Coastal long stalled cairn on Westray eroding at Point of Cott, c.3600 BCE.
🇬🇧 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
Early–Middle Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Stalled cairn on Rousay with tripartite chamber, 29 burials, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Cumbria / Langdale axe network
Late Neolithic flattened circle of 38 stones near Keswick with rectangular eastern enclosure and fells panorama.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Excavated Cotswold-Severn long barrow north of Avebury, 30 m, discrete façade, 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
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn long barrow at Notgrove, 48 m with transepted chambers, c.3700 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Wessex
Chambered long barrow on Walkers Hill above Alton Barnes, 70 m, c.3650 BCE.
🇬🇧 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.
