🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Trethevy Quoit Cornwall
Neolithic · Cornish Neolithic
Trethevy Quoit Cornwall at Cornwall, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Cornish Neolithic tradition, built c. 3700 BCE for 10.5 tonne capstone with hole.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn — Firth, Orkney
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2900 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Grooved Ware)
Cuween Hill cairn (c.3200–2900 BCE) is a Maeshowe-type chambered cairn 21 m diameter crowning Cuween Hill above Kirkwall, with a 8-m low entrance passage leading to a 6-m central chamber with four…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Maiden Castle Hillfort Dorset
Iron Age · Durotriges
Maiden Castle Hillfort Dorset at Dorset, United Kingdom is a Iron Age earthwork of the Durotriges tradition, built c. 600 BCE for 47 acre bivallate hillfort.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Fortress
Maiden Castle — Inner Rampart East Gate
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Maiden Castle — Inner Rampart East Gate in England, Dorset, Dorchester, United Kingdom is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to I…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Dwarfie Stane
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Rock-cut tomb carved from single 8.6 m boulder on Hoy, the only one in Britain, c.3000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Taversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Maeshowe tradition
Rousay's unique two-storey cairn — lower and upper chambers stacked in 15 m round mound.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Creswell Crags
Palaeolithic–Mesolithic (50000–6000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Creswell Crags in Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire, Creswell, United Kingdom is a major Palaeolithic to Holocene cave and fissure system renowned for stratified deposits spanning over 40,000 years.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Pyramid
Mount Winton Pyramid
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Mount Winton Pyramid in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) pyramid attributed to Classical culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Isbister Chambered Cairn (Tomb of the Eagles)
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age · Orcadian Neolithic
Cliff-top stalled cairn on South Ronaldsay famed for 16,000 human bones and eagle remains.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Gough's Cave
Palaeolithic–Mesolithic (50000–6000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Gough's Cave in Somerset, Cheddar Gorge, United Kingdom is a major Palaeolithic to Holocene cave and fissure system renowned for stratified deposits spanning over 40,000 years.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Hetty Pegler's Tump (Uley Long Barrow)
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn long barrow on Uley escarpment, 37 m with transepted chambers, c.3750 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Annaghmare Court Tomb
Middle Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb tradition
Court tomb near Crossmaglen, 13 m gallery with shallow court, at foot of Ring of Gullion, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Clontygora Court Tomb
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Huge court tomb near Killeen (King's Ring), court 6.4×13 m, lintelled entrance, c.3800 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Carn Euny Iron Age Village
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Carn Euny Iron Age Village in Cornwall, South West, United Kingdom is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ormaig Rock Art
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Late Neolithic
Forest clearing cup-and-ring cluster on Creag Mhor, 120+ motifs, c.3000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Barclodiad y Gawres
Late Neolithic · Irish Sea passage grave tradition
Anglesey cruciform passage grave with spiral-decorated stones and 27 m cairn on coastal headland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Clava Cairns — Balnuaran Central Ring Cairn
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Clava Cairns / Beaker
Inverness's classic Clava group excavated by Piggott 1952–53, midwinter sunset aligns down passage, Balnuaran has 3 cairns.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Knap of Howar Papa Westray Farmstead
Early Neolithic (3700–3500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Papa's famous early houses excavated by Traill & Kirkness 1929–30, dated 3700 BCE, older than Skara Brae, preserved under machair dunes.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Bryn Celli Ddu
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Irish Sea Passage Tomb tradition
Anglesey passage tomb with 8.4 m passage aligned to midsummer sunrise and decorated spiral stone.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Maeshowe Chambered Cairn
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Finest Orkney chambered cairn: 36 m mound, long passage, corbelled chamber. Midwinter sunset illuminates chamber. Bears 12th-century Viking runic inscriptions (>30).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Dyffryn Ardudwy Burial Chamber
Early to Middle Neolithic · Irish Sea Neolithic
Double portal dolmen in Snowdonia foothills with two capstones sharing a mound near Cardigan Bay.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn Mainland Orkney
Neolithic (c.3000 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Well-preserved hill-slope cairn with low crawl entrance, excavated 1901 yielding eight human skulls and dog burials, above Bay of Firth.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Rousay
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
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.