🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Coetan Arthur — Newport Bay
Early Neolithic · Western Neolithic
Coetan Arthur — Newport Bay in Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Western Neolithic.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Western Neolithic
Coetan Arthur — Newport Bay in Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Western Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Neolithic tor enclosure (3700 BCE) and Iron Age hillfort (600 BCE) · Cornish Neolithic & Iron Age
Carn Brea Hillfort — Redruth in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Neolithic tor enclosure (3700 BCE) and Iron Age hillfort (600 BCE) hillfort attributed to Cornish Neolithic & Iron Age.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (3500 BCE), collapsed 1815 re-erected · Cornish Neolithic
Lanyon Quoit — Madron in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic (3500 BCE), collapsed 1815 re-erected megalithic attributed to Cornish Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Orkney-Cromarty chambered cairn on Rousay flank, excavated by Henshall, with stalled chamber and partition slabs, containing Neolithic human bone and pottery.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (2600 BCE) · Grooved Ware / Avebury
Avebury's west avenue excavated by Keiller 1934 and Long 1850s, linking Overton Hill Sanctuary (concentric stone/timber circles) to southern entrance of henge.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Early Neolithic to Iron Age (3700 BCE–500 BCE) · Neolithic farmers / Iron Age
Crickley Hill in Gloucestershire, Cotswolds, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic to Iron Age (3700 BCE–500 BCE) hillfort attributed to Neolithic farmers / Iron Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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
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 · Earthwork
Early Neolithic (3700 BCE) to Iron Age · Neolithic causewayed / Hillfort
The Trundle in West Sussex, South Downs, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic (3700 BCE) to Iron Age earthwork attributed to Neolithic causewayed / Hillfort culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Bronze Age (2400–1500 BCE) · Scillonian Bronze Age
Innisidgen Cairns — St Mary's in Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic – Bronze Age (2400–1500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Scillonian Bronze Age.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic to Roman (2500 BCE–140 CE) · Grooved Ware / Roman
Maumbury Rings in Dorset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic to Roman (2500 BCE–140 CE) earthwork attributed to Grooved Ware / Roman culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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
Late Neolithic (3000 BCE) · Channel Islands Late Neolithic
Le Creux ès Faïes in Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Channel Islands Late Neolithic culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Bronze Age (1350–950 BCE) · Deverel-Rimbury
Flag Fen Bronze Age Centre in Cambridgeshire, The Fens, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age (1350–950 BCE) ancient village attributed to Deverel-Rimbury culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Roman (85–410 CE) · Roman
Vindolanda Roman Fort in Northumberland, South of Hadrian's Wall, United Kingdom is a Roman (85–410 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Roman culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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 · Hillfort
Iron Age (400–100 BCE) · Dumnonii
Trevelgue Head Cliff Castle — Newquay in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (400–100 BCE) hillfort attributed to Dumnonii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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
Early Bronze Age (2000–1500 BCE) · Clava cairn tradition (Inverness Bronze Age)
Group of three Bronze Age circular chamber tombs (c. 2000 BCE) at Balnuaran of Clava, defining Clava cairn type: two passage graves with corbelled chambers and a central ring cairn, each within a…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Cornish Late Neolithic
The Pipers — St Buryan in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age megalithic attributed to Cornish Late Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (1900 BCE) · Scillonian-Cornish
Tregiffian Burial Chamber — St Buryan in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (1900 BCE) megalithic attributed to Scillonian-Cornish.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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.