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Dunadd Fort
Neolithic to Early Medieval · Dál Riata (Gaelic) over Neolithic substratum
Hillfort capital of Dál Riata atop rock in Moine Mhòr, with Neolithic art and royal footprint carving.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic to Early Medieval · Dál Riata (Gaelic) over Neolithic substratum
Hillfort capital of Dál Riata atop rock in Moine Mhòr, with Neolithic art and royal footprint carving.
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Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Fully excavated Cotswold-Severn cairn at Hazleton, 21 burials, detailed construction sequence, c.3800 BCE.
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Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Neolithic/Bronze Age
Four-stone chlorite row (to 2.8 m) with 70 cup marks, adjacent cairns and ploughed henge in Kilmartin Glen.
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Early Neolithic · Penwith Early Neolithic
Ruinous 12.8 m mound dolmen on Zennor Hill with slipped 4.8 m capstone over 3.5 m chamber.
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Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Wessex
Chambered long barrow on Walkers Hill above Alton Barnes, 70 m, c.3650 BCE.
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Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb
Massive portal tomb between Hilltown and Castlewellan, granite capstone on cairn with north cist, c.3500 BCE.
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Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Late Neolithic Severn
England's third-largest circle complex — 113 m Great Circle plus two smaller circles and Cove near Bristol.
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Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Neolithic (Maeshowe group)
Maeshowe-type cairn on hill above Firth with 5 m crawl passage to chamber containing human and dog skulls.
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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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Early Neolithic · Kilmartin Early Neolithic
Neolithic chambered cairn at Kilmartin Glen's north-central linear cemetery, c.3800 BCE, defining the glen's axis.
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Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Peak District
Peak District henge enclosing 43 recumbent stones with 90 m bank-ditch and central cove, linked to Gib Hill barrow.
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Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Early Neolithic / Beaker
Chambered cairn beside A816 with three Bronze Age cists and 2021 animal carvings discovery.
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Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin builders
Temple Wood Stone Circles — Kilmartin in Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Early Bronze Age megalithic attributed to Kilmartin builders.
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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.
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Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin complex
Nether Largie Standing Stones — Kilmartin in Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age megalithic attributed to Kilmartin complex.
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Bronze Age (2000–1500 BCE?) · Cornish Bronze Age
Mên-an-Tol — Morvah in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age (2000–1500 BCE?) megalithic attributed to Cornish Bronze Age.
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Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Late Neolithic Cumbrian
Largest circle in northern England — 59-stone oval with 3.6 m outlier Long Meg bearing cup-and-ring spirals.
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Early Neolithic · Preseli Early Neolithic
Wales' largest portal dolmen with 16-tonne capstone on three 2.4 m orthostats.
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Early Neolithic · Medway Early Neolithic
Remnant chamber of Medway long barrow above River Medway — three sarsens supporting 3.5 m capstone.
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Early to Middle Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Two-phase Neolithic long barrow near Uffington with sarsen passage grave overlain on earlier oval mound.
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Late Neolithic · Windmill Hill / Late Neolithic Wessex
Largest megalithic stone circle in Europe (11.5 ha), enclosing outer bank and ditch and two inner circles. Village of Avebury sits partially within the monument.
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Late Neolithic (1600 BCE? — stone older) · Grooved Ware
Rudston Monolith in East Yorkshire, Wolds, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (1600 BCE? — stone older) megalithic attributed to Grooved Ware culture.
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Late Neolithic – Bronze Age · Cornish Late Neolithic
Merry Maidens Stone Circle — St Buryan in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic – Bronze Age megalithic attributed to Cornish Late Neolithic.
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Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 125 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.