🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Waylands Smithy II Cairn
Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Waylands Smithy II Cairn in Oxfordshire, Ashbury, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Waylands Smithy II Cairn in Oxfordshire, Ashbury, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
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Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (c.2500–1700 BCE) · Cumbrian Late Neolithic–Bronze Age (Beaker)
Birkrigg stone circle (Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age c.2500–1700 BCE), also called the Druid's Temple, is a double concentric circle 26 m outer and 9 m inner on Birkrigg Common limestone moor 2 mi…
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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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Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Cumbria (Langdale axe trade area)
55-stone porphyritic circle (28.6 m) above Duddon estuary — best preserved in North-West England.
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Late Neolithic (c.3000–2500 BCE) · Welsh Late Neolithic (Preseli Groove)
Gors Fawr (Late Neolithic c.3000–2500 BCE) is a 22-m perfect circle of 16 Preseli dolerite pillars, 0.6–1.8 m high, on moorland at Mynachlog-ddu beneath the Preseli ridge that sourced Stonehenge…
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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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Early Bronze Age · Penwith Bronze Age
19-stone graded granite circle (23.8 m) near Lamorna with two Pipers outlying stones.
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Neolithic to Norse · Shetland Neolithic / Norse
Steatite quarry and standing stone at Catpund, worked from 3000 BCE to Norse times.
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Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Cumbria / Langdale axe network
Late Neolithic flattened circle of 38 stones near Keswick with rectangular eastern enclosure and fells panorama.
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Late Neolithic · Hebridean Late Neolithic
Six-stone flattened circle (13.3×9.5 m) with central robbed cairn, 2.2 km south of Callanish I.
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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 · 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 Middle Bronze Age · Cotswold Neolithic to Beaker
Neolithic-Bronze Age complex with King's Men circle, Whispering Knights dolmen and King Stone monolith on Cotswold ridge.
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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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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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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/Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Cumbrian
Birkrigg Stone Circle in Cumbria, Furness, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Cumbrian 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 – Bronze Age · Penwith Bronze Age
Boscawen-Ûn Stone Circle in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic – Bronze Age megalithic attributed to Penwith Bronze Age.
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Late Neolithic · Penwith builders
Nine Maidens — Boskednan Circle in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic attributed to Penwith builders.
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Late Neolithic · Cornish Neolithic
Tregeseal Stone Circle — St Just in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic attributed to Cornish Neolithic.
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Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Peak District
Arbor Low in Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic Peak District culture.
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Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Massive henge and stone circle 104 m diameter, originally 60 stones (36 surviving). Enclosed by rock-cut ditch up to 10 m wide. Core of Heart of Neolithic Orkney.