🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Coldrum Long Barrow
Early Neolithic · Medway Early Neolithic
Best-preserved Medway rectangular long barrow with kerb and sarsen chamber on North Downs.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Doggerland
Upper Palaeolithic to Mesolithic · Maglemosian / Mesolithic hunter-gatherers
Vast Mesolithic plain linking Britain to Europe (11000–5500 BCE) with river valleys, forests, hunting camps surveyed via seismic and cores; inundated by post-glacial rise and Storegga tsunami 6200…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure (Wiltshire, England)
Early Neolithic · Windmill Hill culture
Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Windmill Hill culture culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 373).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
West Kennet Avenue (Avebury)
Late Neolithic · Wessex
West Kennet Avenue (Avebury) in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic attributed to Wessex culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 373).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ness of Brodgar
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Major Late Neolithic walled enclosure (c.3200–2300 BCE) between Ring of Brodgar and Stenness, with monolithic structures including Structure 10 (25 m hall) with painted stone, tiled roof and imported…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Woodhenge & Durrington Walls
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware
Timber-circle henge (Woodhenge, 6 rings, 168 posts) and Durrington Walls super-henge (500 m diameter, 17 ha, 2 entrances, largest henge in Britain) – contemporary settlement of Stonehenge builders…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Skara Brae
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Exceptionally preserved Late Neolithic stone-built village of eight clustered houses with stone furniture, hearths and drains. Revealed 1850 after storm, often called Scotland's answer to Pompeii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Coldrum Long Barrow (Coldrum Stones)
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 · Archaeological wonder
Avalon – Isle of Apples and Glastonbury Tor Legendary Island
Literary 12th c. (Geoffrey) – 15th c. Malory · Cornish-Welsh Celtic / Anglo-Norman
Geoffrey of Monmouth 1136 Otherworld isle where Excalibur forged, Arthur taken after Camlann to be healed by Morgan le F...
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Arbor Low
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Peak District
Arbor Low in Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic Peak District culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Merrivale Stone Rows
Late Neolithic – Middle Bronze Age · Dartmoor Bronze Age
Concentrated Late Neolithic–Bronze Age ritual settlement on Dartmoor: double stone rows (up to 264 m), stone circle, standing stone (3.2 m), cists, hut circles and Bronze Age field systems on open…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Hittite Ancient Village — Orkney Annex 392
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Orkney.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Hittite Ancient Village — Orkney Annex 438
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Orkney.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Bronze Age Megalithic — Orkney Annex 406
Bronze Age · Bronze Age
Bronze Age megalithic at Orkney.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Rock art
Neolithic Rock Art — Orkney Annex 403
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic rock-art at Orkney.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Pyramid
Hittite Pyramid — Orkney Annex 397
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite pyramid at Orkney.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Kit's Coty House (Kent, England)
Early Neolithic · Medway Megaliths
Kit's Coty House in Kent, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Medway Megaliths culture. Megalithic construction with sarsen; evidence of ceremonial and funerary use.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Calanais Standing Stones
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Hebridean Late Neolithic
Cruciform setting: central circle 13 m diameter with 4.8 m monolith and avenues N,S,E,W. Most prominent of 19 Callanish sites on ridge above Loch Roag. Potential lunar standstill alignment.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Maeshowe Chambered Cairn
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Finest Orkney chambered cairn: 36 m mound, long passage, corbelled chamber. Midwinter sunset illuminates chamber. Bears 12th-century Viking runic inscriptions (>30).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ring of Brodgar
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Massive henge and stone circle 104 m diameter, originally 60 stones (36 surviving). Enclosed by rock-cut ditch up to 10 m wide. Core of Heart of Neolithic Orkney.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Standing Stones of Stenness
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Four surviving uprights of oval henge circle originally 12 stones up to 5.7 m tall on promontory between lochs. One of earliest henges in Britain (c.3100 BCE).