🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Chûn Castle Hillfort — Penwith
Iron Age (300 BCE) · Dumnonii
Chûn Castle Hillfort — Penwith in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (300 BCE) hillfort attributed to Dumnonii.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Iron Age (300 BCE) · Dumnonii
Chûn Castle Hillfort — Penwith in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (300 BCE) hillfort attributed to Dumnonii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Iron Age (300 BCE) · Dumnonii
Dodman Point Cliff Fort in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (300 BCE) hillfort attributed to Dumnonii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age · Dumnonii
Cott Valley Hut Settlement — St Just in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Bronze Age · Cornish Bronze Age
Godrevy Headland Hut Circles in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age ancient-village attributed to Cornish Bronze Age.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Iron Age · Dumnonii
Black Head Cliff Castle — St Austell Bay in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age hillfort attributed to Dumnonii. Small univallate promontory fort with hut terraces, facing St Austell Bay.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Orkney.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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 · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Windmill Hill
Neolithic long barrow on the Ridgeway (c. 3600 BCE) with two phases: early mortuary enclosure and later trapezoidal mound covering cruciform chamber of sarsen and oolite.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Medway Megaliths
Coldrum Long Barrow (Coldrum Stones) in Kent, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Medway Megaliths culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3150–2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
South Ronaldsay chambered cairn excavated by J. Hedges (1976), yielding 16,000 human bones, 725 bird bones including white-tailed eagle talons, and Beaker pottery — headland cliff-edge site.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Tidal islet cairn linked to earlier Holm of Papa Westray North Cairn (c.3700 BCE), excavated 1982–83, yielding human bone, pottery and lithics now dated to 3200 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (2600 BCE) · Grooved Ware / Avebury
Avebury's west avenue excavated by Keiller 1934 and Long 1850s, linking Overton Hill Sanctuary (concentric stone/timber circles) to southern entrance of henge.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic (3500–2500 BCE) · Late Neolithic Northern
Thornborough's triple henges excavated by Thomas 1952 and Harding 1981, gypsum-covered banks visible from 3 km, linked to Nunwick henge 1 km.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3000 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Well-preserved hill-slope cairn with low crawl entrance, excavated 1901 yielding eight human skulls and dog burials, above Bay of Firth.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3250 BCE) · Orcadian Grooved Ware
Mainland Orkney cairn excavated by Renfrew 1972–74, yielding 157 adults and children, dated to Early Neolithic with Grooved Ware sherds.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 845 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 993 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (3180–2500 BCE) · Grooved Ware Orkney
Skara extension excavated by Clarke 1928–30 and recent erosion exposures, middens with pottery, bone tools and dyke wall.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3100 BCE) · Grooved Ware
Ness causeway outlier midway between two henges, with Bridge of Brodgar nearby, excavated causeway timber 2014.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3100–2700 BCE) · Grooved Ware
Ness perimeter row revealed in N. Card excavations 2010, linking to earlier Brodgar farm enclosure.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age, Early to Middle La Tene 456-395 BCE · Iron Age La Tene Lincolnshire
456/395 BCE Iron Age timber causeway (175 m) at Fiskerton, Witham Valley with 11 votive swords and logboats.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Bronze Age 1500-1000 BCE · Late Bronze Age Thames estuary farmers/fishers
1500 BCE Late Bronze Age intertidal brushwood causeway (120 m) at Beckton, Thames estuary tidal trackway.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Late Bronze Age (Building 2) + Mesolithic footprint shelf · Severn estuarine saltmarsh dwellers (Later Bronze)
Second Severn intertidal brush-hurdle footway 42 m southeast of Goldcliff Iron Age building.