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Nine Ladies Stone Circle
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.
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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.
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Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Barclodiad y Gawres Passage Grave in Anglesey, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
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Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Maes Howe Peripheral Cairn in Orkney, Mainland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
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Early–Middle Neolithic (c.4000–3500 BCE) · Neolithic Anglesey (passage grave tradition)
Eastern Anglesey portal dolmen with colossal 25-tonne capstone (6.5 x 5.5 m) — one of Wales's heaviest.
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Early Neolithic (c.3800–3300 BCE) · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic (Caithness)
Paired Loch Calder chambered cairns (round and long horned) rescued before reservoir flooding, with classic Orkney-Cromarty chambers.
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Early–Middle Neolithic (c.3500 BCE) · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
23 m stalled chambered cairn — Orkney's longest — with 12 compartments and remains of 25 Neolithic burials.
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Iron Age (Celtic) · Pre-Christian Celtic / Iron Age Ireland
Iron Age janus idols (1.2 m double-headed) in Boa Island cemetery, Lough Erne — most enigmatic Celtic stones in Ireland.
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Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
32-tonne Herefordshire Cotswold-Severn tomb — nine uprights under 25 m mound on Golden Valley ridge.
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Late Neolithic · Anglesey Neolithic
Bryn Celli Ddu Passage Grave Anglesey at Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic of the Anglesey Neolithic tradition, built c.
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Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age
Paired Kilmartin circles (13 m and 12 m) tracing timber-to-stone transition c.3000–1000 BCE.
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Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Castlerigg — Borrowdale Cairn Knot (Northwest Outlier) in England, Cumbria, Keswick, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE)…
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Late Neolithic · Boyne / Loughcrew tradition (western outlier)
Hilltop 15 m passage tomb with three decorated stones (spirals/lozenges) — westernmost Boyne-style tomb in Ulster.
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Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Triple-walled Orkney-Cromarty cairn near Kirkwall with 4.5 m passage to tripartite corbelled chamber.
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Early Bronze Age (c.2000–1800 BCE) · British Early Bronze Age (Collared Urn)
Duddo Five Stones (Early Bronze Age c.2000 BCE) is a 10-m sandstone circle on a low rise 4 mi south of the Scottish border, with five soft, deeply weathered pillars up to 2.3 m tall standing in a…
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Neolithic · Orkney Neolithic
Taversoe Tuick Two Storey Cairn at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Orkney Neolithic tradition, built c. 3250 BCE for unique two-storey chambered cairn.
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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.
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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.
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Early Bronze Age · Snowdonia Early Bronze Age
8.7 m Snowdonia crown cairn with 18 angled slate pillars and 2 m outlier — most photogenic Bronze Age tomb in Wales.
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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.
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Early Neolithic · East Cornwall Early Neolithic
East Cornwall's tallest quoit — 2.4 m uprights supporting capstone 3 m high with internal divider and rear window.
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Late Neolithic · Hebridean Late Neolithic
Concentric double circle (13.7 m outer) with inner 4-stone ring and cairn, 500 m SE of Callanish I.
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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.
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Early Neolithic · Unstan Ware Neolithic
Eponymous stalled cairn at Stenness — 8.4 m five-compartment chamber where Unstan Ware was first identified.
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Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Dual court tomb above Strangford Lough narrows, two opposed galleries, eight chambers, 34 burials, c.3900 BCE.