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Partially excavated chambered tombs

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

The Bridestones Chambered Cairn

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.

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🇫🇷 France · Megalith

Locmariaquer Megaliths

Middle Neolithic (~4700–4000 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Castellic)

Three interlinked monuments on the Gulf of Morbihan: the shattered 20.6-m Grand Menhir Brisé – heaviest moved stone in Europe at 280 tonnes before earthquake toppling; the Table des Marchand passage…

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Kit's Coty House

Early Neolithic · Medway Early Neolithic

Remnant chamber of Medway long barrow above River Medway — three sarsens supporting 3.5 m capstone.