Ancient and mysterious places in United Kingdom

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork

Silbury Hill — Avebury Landscape

Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Wessex

Largest prehistoric artificial mound in Europe (c. 2400 BCE), 39.3 m high conical chalk mound in Avebury World Heritage Site.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Bronze Age Megalithic — Orkney Annex 406

Bronze Age · Bronze Age

Bronze Age megalithic at Orkney.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Creeg Tol — Crows-an-Wra

Neolithic · Cornish Neolithic

Creeg Tol — Crows-an-Wra in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic attributed to Cornish Neolithic. Highly ruinous dolmen known only from antiquarian record and fragment.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Temple complex

Calder Abbey

Calder Abbey in Cumbria was a Savigniac monastery founded in 1134 by Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester, and moved to this site following a refoundation in 1142. It became Cistercian in 1148.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Tell

Harappan Tell — Orkney Annex 453

Harappan · Harappan

Harappan tell at Orkney.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Gowk Hill Stone Circle

Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age (2500–1500 BCE) · Recumbent Stone Circle builders

Gowk Hill stone circle on a ridge west of Insch, Aberdeenshire, an upland circle of eight granitic boulders enclosing a slight interior cairn, part of the Aberdeenshire recumbent circle concentration…

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works

Caledonian Canal

The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William in Scotland.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Geoglyph

Craigmillar

Craigmillar (from Gaelic Creag a' Mhaol Àird, "rock of the bare summit") is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland, about 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of the city centre, with Duddingston to the north and…

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Fortress

Edin's Hall Broch

Edin's Hall Broch (also Edinshall Broch; Woden's Hall Broch) is a 2nd-century broch near Duns in the Borders of Scotland. It is one of very few brochs found in southern Scotland. It is roughly 28 metres in diameter.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Temple complex

Crossraguel Abbey

The Abbey of Saint Mary of Crossraguel is a ruin of a former Cluniac abbey near the town of Maybole, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Although it is a ruin, visitors can still see the monks’ church, cloister and dovecote.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Geoglyph

Battle of Britain Memorial, Capel-le-Ferne

The Battle of Britain Memorial is a monument to aircrew who flew in the Battle of Britain. It is sited on the White Cliffs at Capel-le-Ferne, near Folkestone, on the coast of Kent.