🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Holm of Papa Westray South Cairn
Early Neolithic · Orkney Early Neolithic (Bookan tradition)
10 m round Bookan-type chamber with three cells, 200 m south of paired North long cairn.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney Early Neolithic (Bookan tradition)
10 m round Bookan-type chamber with three cells, 200 m south of paired North long cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Unexcavated long barrow southeast of Silbury Hill, 100 m longest in Avebury group, landmark within WHS.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Vendée Atlantic
Paired dolmens (Virante I and II) near Soullans, Vendée, shared mound, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Kilmartin Early Neolithic
Neolithic chambered cairn at Kilmartin Glen's north-central linear cemetery, c.3800 BCE, defining the glen's axis.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Mid Neolithic (3450–2800 BCE) · Unstan Ware
Loch of Stenness-shore cairn excavated by Clouston 1884, style-site for Unstan pottery, yielding crouched burials and Grooved Ware later.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn South — Eastern Outlier in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Hill of Caldback Chambered Cairn — Western Terrace in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Unstan Chambered Cairn Annex South — Northern Annex in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn South — Northern Annex in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Unstan Chambered Cairn Annex South — Eastern Outlier in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Burrian Chambered Cairn — Eastern Outlier in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Cuween Hill Annex Chamber West — Northern Annex in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Cuween Hill Annex Chamber West — Western Terrace in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Huntersquoy Chambered Cairn — Eastern Outlier in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Huntersquoy Chambered Cairn — Southern Extension in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn — Western Terrace in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Vinquoy Chambered Cairn — Northern Annex in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Burrian Chambered Cairn in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Cuween Hill Annex Chamber West in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE, Norse reuse 12th c. CE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Grooved Ware) + Norse
Eynhallow chambered cairn (Maeshowe-type, c.3200–2800 BCE) is a 17-m Orkney-Cromarty stalled cairn on the uninhabited tidal island of Eynhallow in Eynhallow Sound, built of flagstone slabs with three…
🇬🇧 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
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 · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age · Orcadian Neolithic
Cliff-top stalled cairn on South Ronaldsay famed for 16,000 human bones and eagle remains.