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191 places in the atlas, 17 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Humberhead communities (Grooved Ware)
821-m Neolithic pine corduroy trackway (2435 BCE) on Hatfield Moor — longest British Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
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
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 · Archaeological wonder
Lower Palaeolithic, MIS 13 interglacial (Boxgrove interglacial = Cromerian-ish) · Homo heidelbergensis hunter-scavengers
500,000-year Homo heidelbergensis butchery floor with refitted Acheulean axes and tibia.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
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 · Ancient village
Late Bronze Age (Ewart Park, 1300–900 BCE) · Fenland Late Bronze (Deverel–Rimbury, 1300–900 BCE)
380-m southern Flag Fen causeway extension (1220–1120 BCE) — double-post drove way to Whittlesey.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
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 · Hydraulic works
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Early Bronze Age Humber (Ferriby–Hanson Logboat tradition)
Three sewn-plank boats (2030–1680 BCE) — Europe's earliest plank vessels in Humber estuary silts.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age (Middle–Late Iron Age, 350–50 BCE) · British Iron Age (Meare–Glastonbury ware, southwest Iron Age)
Iron Age (350–50 BCE) Meare East lake village — 400 x 90 m east island with 20 brushwood roundhouses.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Early Bronze Age (~2050 BCE) · British Early Bronze Age (Beaker to post-Beaker)
2049 BCE Bronze Age timber circle with inverted oak altar—Nordic beach ritual uncovered 1998.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Pseudoarchaeology (2021–present) · Pseudoarchaeology (Dogger-Atlantis mashup)
Celtic Shelf pseudo-Atlantis stretching Doggerland to Humber at 54°N 1.5°E – unverified plain crop.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Early Bronze to Middle Iron Age (2200 BCE–200 CE) · Hebridean Bronze–Iron (Machair Beaker to Atlantic wheelhouse)
13-machair roundhouses (2200 BCE–200 CE) with 4 curated composite mummies (1100–800 BCE) — Europe's only mummy curation.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (peak Iron Age) · Bronze Age to Iron Age Severn communities
Iron Age corduroy trackways (1000–100 BCE) on Goldcliff intertidal peat shelf — 30-m brushwood causeways.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Middle Bronze Age · Pennine Bronze Age (Stanwick-related)
Upland blanket-peat trackway (295 m asl, 54°48′36″N 02°26′24″W 54.81,-2.44 Alston Moor) on Cross Fell mire, North Pennines 890 m dome, rare high Pennine example at 295 m (not wetland fen but…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Western Neolithic (Pembrokeshire)
Cliff-top portal dolmen near Abercastle harbour — massive capstone (4.7 m) on three orthostats with sea backdrop.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Western Neolithic (Pembrokeshire)
Headland portal dolmen (capstone 5 x 3 m) on St Davids Head cliff overlooking Whitesands Bay — Neolithic coastal tomb.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic (c.3500–2500 BCE) · British Late Neolithic (Grooved Ware)
Thornborough Henges (Neolithic c.3500–2500 BCE) are Britain's finest henge alignment: three huge circular earthworks 240 m diameter each, bank 2 m high with outer ditch and twin entrances aligned…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Iron Age – Romano-British (c.100 BCE–500 CE) · Romano-British / Late Iron Age Welsh
Polygonal-walled Romano-British hut-circle village (~500 CE) with two roundhouses on limestone ridge above Lligwy Bay.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (c.2100–1800 BCE) · Bronze Age Peak District (Food Vessel / Beaker)
Peak District embanked Bronze Age circle (10 stones in 10.5 m ring) on Stanton Moor with outlying King Stone.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3500 BCE) · Cotswold-Severn Neolithic
Ruined 110 m long Cotswold-Severn chambered cairn on Cheshire border — four portal stones survive of vast ridge cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Literary place
Literary 12th c. (Chrétien) – 15th c. Malory codification; folk attachment 16th c. · Cornish-Celtic / Anglo-Norman chivalric literature
Tristan's homeland between Cornwall and Scilly — 140 churches drowned one night by Arthurian romance.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2500 BCE) · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Late Neolithic village on Loch of Harray with 15 houses and ceremonial hall Structure 8 facing the Stones of Stenness.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Early Bronze Age (Beaker–Early Bronze, 2200 BCE) · British Early Bronze (Beaker–Thornborough henge communities)
30-m Early Bronze mire-plank trackway (2210 BCE) by Thornborough Henges — henge processional wetland bridge.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3200 BCE) · Neolithic Anglesey (Irish Sea province)
Anglesey portal dolmen with wedge capstone on five stones — small Neolithic tomb in farmland south of Gaerwen.
