🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
The Sanctuary (Overton Hill)
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Windmill Hill / Wessex Neolithic
Timber-then-stone double circles (40 m outer) at SE end of West Kennet Avenue — Avebury's mortuary terminus.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
King Arthur's Stone (Herefordshire)
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
32-tonne Herefordshire Cotswold-Severn tomb — nine uprights under 25 m mound on Golden Valley ridge.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Mine Howe
Iron Age (c.100 BCE–400 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian) / possible Roman contact
Iron Age underground sanctuary in Tankerness with 29-step stair descending 7.5 m to a corbelled chamber.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle
Late Jomon (2000–1000 BCE) · Late Jomon (Tsugaru–Iwaki region)
Late Jomon double stone circle (c.2000–1500 BCE) at the foot of Mt. Iwaki near Hirosaki, Aomori — two concentric andesite rings 48 m and 29 m diameter, with 77 standing stones up to 1.5 m high…
🇧🇪 Belgium · Megalith
Wéris Megalithic Field
Late Neolithic (3200–2500 BCE) · Seine-Oise-Marne (SOM) — Atlantic Neolithic
Concentrated group of two gallery dolmens (Wéris I and Oppagne), three menhir fields and the Danthine and Oppagne stone alignments on a 8 km ridge near Wéris in the Ardennes.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Grey Cairns of Camster
Neolithic (c.3500–3000 BCE) · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic (Caithness)
Flow Country pair of vast Orkney-Cromarty cairns — 60 m long horned cairn with two chambers and intact round cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Temple Wood Stone Circles
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.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Luttra Ganggrift (Luttra Passage Grave)
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker (TRB) — Falbygden group
Falbygden passage grave — 9 m passage to 7 m limestone chamber within 19 m mound, c.3300 BCE.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Pömmelte Ring Sanctuary
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Bell Beaker → Únětice / Early Bronze Age
115 m Bell Beaker/Early Bronze Age ring sanctuary with seven concentric timber-ditch circles and ritual pits, c.2300 BCE.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Loughcrew Cairn T (Hag's Cairn)
Late Neolithic · Boyne / Loughcrew passage tradition
35 m Loughcrew chief tomb with cruciform chamber whose art is illuminated by equinox sunrise.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Tumulus de Dissignac
Early Neolithic · Atlantic Breton / Loire Neolithic (Castellic / Chasséen contact)
Double passage tumulus near Saint-Nazaire — two parallel graves (11 m and 9 m) under one 28 m mound, c.4300 BCE.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dolmen de Soto
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Andalusian Chalcolithic / Millares influence
21 m passage dolmen near Huelva with 63 engraved orthostats under 60 m tumulus, 3000-2500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Beaghmore Stone Circles
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Ulster Early Bronze Age (Beaker influenced)
Seven Bronze Age circles (10–20 m), cairns and dragon's teeth row (800 stones) on Sperrin edge, peat-sealed.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Carrowkeel Passage Tomb Complex
Late Neolithic · Loughcrew-Carrowkeel passage tradition (Boyne variant)
14 hilltop passage cairns (10–21 m) on Bricklieve ridges above Lough Arrow, with cruciform chambers and light boxes.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Eynhallow Chambered Cairn — Eynhallow Island
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…
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Drombeg Stone Circle
Late Bronze Age · Cork-Kerry recumbent circle tradition
Recumbent circle (9.3 m, 17 stones) above Glandore with midwinter sunset alignment and hut/fulacht complex.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Triple-walled Orkney-Cromarty cairn near Kirkwall with 4.5 m passage to tripartite corbelled chamber.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Domus de Janas of Anghelu Ruju
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Ozieri (San Michele) → Beaker → Bonnannaro → Nuragic
Largest Sardinian Domus de Janas necropolis — 38 rock-cut chamber tombs with bull-horn carvings, 4200-2600 BCE.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Tomba di Giganti Coddu Vecchiu
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Nuragic (Bonnannaro precursor to Nuragic)
Giants' Tomb near Arzachena with 4 m portal stele and exedra fronting 10 m gallery grave, 1800-1600 BCE.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Klein Upahl Megalithic Grave
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Klein Upahl Megalithic Grave in Mecklenburg, Ludwigslust-Parchim, Germany is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Stanydale Temple
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Shetland Late Neolithic / Beaker
Shetland's largest Neolithic hall — 12×7 m heel-cairn hall with 3 m thick walls, c.2500 BCE.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Ale's Stones
Late Nordic Iron Age (Vendal period) · Late Iron Age Scandinavia (proto-Viking)
67 m Iron Age stone ship of 59 boulders on Baltic ridge near Ystad with solstitial alignments, c.600 CE.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Altmark Megalithic Grave Beesewege
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Altmark Megalithic Grave Beesewege in Saxony-Anhalt, Altmark, Germany is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Goseck Circle
Early Neolithic · Stichbandkeramik / Stroke-Ornamented ware
4900 BCE circular ditch and double timber palisade with solstice gates — Europe's oldest solar observatory.