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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3500–2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Spectacular Rousay cairn excavated 1932–34, largest in Orkney, with 25 individuals and an adjacent Iron Age broch landscape visible across Eynhallow Sound.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Exceptionally preserved Late Neolithic stone-built village of eight clustered houses with stone furniture, hearths and drains. Revealed 1850 after storm, often called Scotland's answer to Pompeii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Four surviving uprights of oval henge circle originally 12 stones up to 5.7 m tall on promontory between lochs. One of earliest henges in Britain (c.3100 BCE).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200–2300 BCE) · Grooved Ware
Major Ness excavated by Card 2004–, Grooved Ware centre linking Stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Rousay hillside cairn excavated by Callander & Grant 1934, yielding 29 individuals and Unstan Ware; managed by Historic Environment Scotland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (2600–2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Solitary outlier 80 m beyond Ring of Brodgar ditch, thought to mark northern lunar minor standstill sightline from henge centre.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Tidal islet cairn linked to earlier Holm of Papa Westray North Cairn (c.3700 BCE), excavated 1982–83, yielding human bone, pottery and lithics now dated to 3200 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3150–2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
South Ronaldsay chambered cairn excavated by J. Hedges (1976), yielding 16,000 human bones, 725 bird bones including white-tailed eagle talons, and Beaker pottery — headland cliff-edge site.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3100–2700 BCE) · Grooved Ware
Ness perimeter row revealed in N. Card excavations 2010, linking to earlier Brodgar farm enclosure.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (c.2900 BCE) · Maes Howe tradition
Finest Maes Howe-type cairn on Sanday, excavated 1867, with six side chambers off central cell and cross-shaped plan, near beach dunes.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3100 BCE) · Grooved Ware
Ness causeway outlier midway between two henges, with Bridge of Brodgar nearby, excavated causeway timber 2014.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Mid Neolithic (3450–2800 BCE) · Unstan Ware
Loch of Stenness-shore cairn excavated by Clouston 1884, style-site for Unstan pottery, yielding crouched burials and Grooved Ware later.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Shetland Neolithic
Heel-shaped chambered cairn on Whalsay, 15 m, part of Yoxie settlement complex, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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.
