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533 places in the atlas, 30 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic · Orkney Neolithic
Quoyness Chambered Cairn Sanday at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Orkney Neolithic tradition, built c. 2900 BCE for maes howe type 20 m 9 m passage.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Shetland Late Neolithic / Beaker
Shetland's largest Neolithic hall — 12×7 m heel-cairn hall with 3 m thick walls, c.2500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age · Atlantic Iron Age
Old Scatness Broch Village at Shetland, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient village of the Atlantic Iron Age tradition, built c. 400 BCE for broch with wheelhouse village.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age · Atlantic Iron Age
Broch of Gurness Orkney at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Iron Age megalithic of the Atlantic Iron Age tradition, built c. 200 BCE for broch with external village and ditch.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age (c.200 BCE–200 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian)
Finely preserved Rousay broch on Eynhallow Sound with intramural galleries and adjacent chambered cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic · Cornish Neolithic
Trethevy Quoit Cornwall at Cornwall, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Cornish Neolithic tradition, built c. 3700 BCE for 10.5 tonne capstone with hole.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2900 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Grooved Ware)
Cuween Hill cairn (c.3200–2900 BCE) is a Maeshowe-type chambered cairn 21 m diameter crowning Cuween Hill above Kirkwall, with a 8-m low entrance passage leading to a 6-m central chamber with four…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Bodmin Moor Bronze Age
Triple line of three Bronze Age granite circles (33–41.5 m) on Bodmin Moor with paired outlying stones.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.1000 BCE–500 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age
Multi-phase broch on loch islet near Lerwick with unique blockhouse forework and wheelhouse overbuild.
🇬🇧 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 · Megalith
Iron Age · Atlantic Iron Age
Mousa Broch Tower at Shetland, United Kingdom is a Iron Age megalithic of the Atlantic Iron Age tradition, built c. 300 BCE for 13.3 m dry-stone broch tower.
🇬🇧 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 · Megalith
Multi-period: Neolithic to Medieval (c.2500 BCE–1600 CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age (Broch) → Pictish → Norse
4,000-year layered settlement mound at Shetland's southern tip with broch, wheelhouses, Viking longhouse and medieval farm.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Bronze Age
Four-stone row (to 2.8 m) amid Kilmartin's Bronze Age linear cemetery with cup-marked cairns.
🇬🇧 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
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Earthworks of Northfield Bal in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Classical culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Village of Drumlin Wood in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) ancient village attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇬🇧 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 · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney Early Neolithic
20 m stalled long cairn on uninhabited holm off Papa Westray — paired with South cairn 200 m away.
🇬🇧 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 · Archaeological wonder
Palaeolithic–Mesolithic (50000–6000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Creswell Crags in Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire, Creswell, United Kingdom is a major Palaeolithic to Holocene cave and fissure system renowned for stratified deposits spanning over 40,000 years.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Ancient City of Bala Cairn in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Moche (100–800 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Moche culture.
