Excavated megaliths

Mysteria

🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith

Poulnabrone Portal Dolmen Burren

Neolithic (4200–2900 BCE) · Irish Neolithic

Burren's icon excavated by Lynch & Otway 1986–88, radiocarbon 3800–3200 BCE, with 33 individuals and grave goods.

🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith

Tholos do Barro — Torres Vedras Neolithic Tomb

Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic (3000–2500 BCE) · Estremadura Neolithic

Coastal tholos excavated by Leonor Pina 1910, grave goods including limestone idols and Bell Beaker pottery.

🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith

Su Nuraxi di Barumini — Royal Nuraghe

Middle to Late Bronze Age (1500–500 BCE) · Nuragic

Barumini type-site excavated by Lilliu 1949–56, with Iron Age village over Bronze Age bastion, restored.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Ness of Brodgar — Structure 14 Annex

Late Neolithic (3200–2300 BCE) · Grooved Ware

Major Ness excavated by Card 2004–, Grooved Ware centre linking Stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar.

🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith

Oyu Stone Circles — Late Jomon Solar Alignment

Late Jomon (2000–1500 BCE) · Late Jomon Oyu

Kazuno circles excavated 1931 and 1946, Late Jomon double circles aligned to summer solstice sunset.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Brodgar — Ness Breck Stone Row

Late Neolithic (3100–2700 BCE) · Grooved Ware

Ness perimeter row revealed in N. Card excavations 2010, linking to earlier Brodgar farm enclosure.

🇰🇷 South Korea · Megalith

Gochang — Jungnim-ri Dolmen Cluster

Korean Bronze Age (1000–500 BCE) · Mumun / Korean Bronze dolmen builders

Gochang Jungnim-ri excavated 1980s, largest capstone 5.6 m, UNESCO 2000 with Hwasun, Ganghwa.

🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith

Isedotai Stone Circles — Akita Northern Jomon

Late Jomon (2200–1500 BCE) · Late Jomon

Kita-Akita Isedotai excavated 1992–, 4 circles with 200+ stones aligned to Mount Moriyoshi.

🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith

Ryoanji — Kameoka Dolmen Valley Kyoto Rim

Yayoi (500–100 BCE) · Yayoi Tanba

Kameoka Yayoi dolmens excavated 1970s, Tanba Yayoi slate dagger and Jar-coffin under.

🇰🇷 South Korea · Megalith

Hwasun — Hyosan-ri Dolmen with Quarry

Bronze Age (800–600 BCE) · Mumun dolmen

Hwasun Hyosan-ri excavated 1990s, quarry wedge holes match capstone, UNESCO 2000.

🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith

Fontainhas — Alentejo Dolmen with Painted Orthostat

Neolithic (3500 BCE) Alentejo dolmen Fontainhas with painted serpent Hunt Panel · Ourique Alentejo dolmen art

Fontainhas painted 3500 hunt scene oldest Alentejo dolmen painting.

🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith

Anta Grande do Zambujeiro — Largest Iberian Dolmen 7.2 m

Neolithic (4000–3500 BCE) largest Iberian dolmen · Alentejo Neolithic megalithic Zambujeiro builder lineage

Anta Grande Henriksson and earlier 1965, 4000 BCE largest Iberia.

🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith

Hospitalet Vell — Talayotic Naveta Proto Village Manacor

Pre-Talayotic (1800 BCE naveta) → Talayotic (1200–800 BCE talayot additions) · Balearic naveta → Talayotic transition Hospitalet 1800 naveta total

Hospitalet Vell Rosselló 1970, naveta 12 m transition 1800–1100.

🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith

Son Fornés — Talayotic Three-Talayot Fortified Village Centre Mallorca

Talayotic (1000 BCE–100 BCE Son Fornés chiefdom; Talayot 1 1100 BCE, 2 500 BCE, 3 400 BCE) · Talayotic Mallorca village with 105 iron swords hydria? Iron age 1100–100 BCE + Post-Talayotic 550 BCE houses

Son Fornés Gasperini 1970s, triple talayot 1100–400, 105 iron.

🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith

Almendres Menhir Pair — Vale Maria do Meio Cromlech Satellite

Neolithic (5200–4200 BCE) Almendres satellite · Alentejo Neolithic satellite 5200-4200

Vale Maria do Meio excavated by Pina 1960s, U cromlech.

🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith

S'Illot — Talayotic Coastal Cliffs and Punic Cistern

Talayotic (1100–500 BCE settlement 2000 m²; 200 BCE Punic cistern 2 after 123 BCE Roman conquest) · Talayotic → Punic 6th c. BCE contact → Roman to Punic merged

S'Illot coastal talayotic with Punic cistern 200 BCE.

🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith

Torralba d'en Salord — Taula and Talayot Double Enclosure Menorca

Talayotic (1000–500 BCE taula; 900 BCE talayot cone 10 m high 18 m diameter 12th–6th) · Talayotic Menorca Talayot-taula-hypostyle triple (Mediterranean Bronze to early Iron village)

Torralba 1990s talayot-taula-hypostyle 14 columns.

🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith

Dombate Dolmen — Galician Passage Grave Painted Panel-Menhir Atlantic

Neolithic (3800–2700 BCE corridor 3800, painted 2700 BCE) · Galician Neolithic Dombate style (Atlantic megalithic painted art)

Dombate excavated by Bello 1998 Galician largest.

🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith

Puig Morter de Son Ferragut — Post-Talayotic Islet Hypostyle Hall

Post-Talayotic (550–123 BCE Son Ferragut hall 400 BCE) · Post-Talayotic Mallorcan iron age Son Ferragut 550 BCE square talayot abandon→ hall 400 BCE

Puig Morter 14.6 m hypostyle 5 columns 400 BCE.

🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith

Naveta des Tudons — Menorca Funerary Mothership Ship-Shaped Tomb

Pre-Talayotic to Talayotic (1200–750 BCE Tudons; earlier 1600 naveta prototypes) · Balearic pre-Talayotic naviform (Naveta builders 1600–750) with collective inhumations 100 persons

Tudons restored Pericot 1960 14.5 m ship tomb.