🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Chûn Quoit — Chun Down
Early Neolithic (3500 BCE) · Penwith Neolithic
Chûn Quoit — Chun Down in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic (3500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Penwith Neolithic.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (3500 BCE) · Penwith Neolithic
Chûn Quoit — Chun Down in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic (3500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Penwith Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (2000 BCE) · Clava Cairn builders
Corrimony chambered cairn in Glenurquhart, a Clava passage grave with intact chamber, kerb and surrounding stone circle of eleven monoliths, excavated by Piggott revealing cremation and beaker…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Early to Middle Neolithic 3200-2800 BCE · Hebridean Neolithic (Unstan/Grooved Ware)
3200 BCE Neolithic timber-laced artificial island (32 m) at Eilean Domhnuill, North Uist - earliest crannog settlement in Scotland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic 3240 BCE · Late Neolithic Somerset Levels farmers
Neolithic timber trackway (3240 BCE, 2 km) at Meare Heath, longest Neolithic timber structure in Britain, successor to Sweet Track.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age, British Middle–Late (Hod Hill + Glastonbury ware) · Iron Age Somerset wetland Britons (Durotriges–Dumnonii border)
250 BCE–50 BCE Iron Age peat islands—90 wattle houses on Somerset artificial crannogs.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Early Neolithic (3700–3500 BCE) · Hebridean Early Neolithic (Eilean Dòmhnuill Ware, 3700 BCE)
Early Neolithic 18 x 12 m crannog annexe (c.3500 BCE) with 3 conjoined Hebridean houses — earliest Hebrides village plan.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Early Mesolithic (Maglemosian, 9000–8500 BCE, Preboreal) · British Early Mesolithic (Maglemosian, Star Carr group)
Seamer Carr 350-m brush causeway and 3 Maglemosian houses (9000–8500 BCE) — Lake Flixton extensions of Star Carr.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age British Late (Glastonbury tradition) · Somerset Levels Iron Age Britons
300–50 BCE fen twin villages—28 Iron Age houses on Meare Pool artificial islets.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Lower Palaeolithic, Cromerian Complex · Homo antecessor pioneer groups at northern limits of hominin range
850,000-year Homo antecessor family footprints—152 tracks exposed for 14 days before tide erased them.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Unstan Chambered Cairn Annex South — Western Terrace in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Burrian Chambered Cairn — Southern Extension in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Early Bronze Age (~2050 BCE) · British Early Bronze Age (Beaker to post-Beaker)
2049 BCE Bronze Age timber circle with inverted oak altar—Nordic beach ritual uncovered 1998.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Shetland Neolithic
Stanydale Temple Annex Shetland — Eastern Outlier in Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Shetland Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Cuween Hill Annex Chamber West — Southern Extension in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Hill of Caldback Chambered Cairn — Northern Annex in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Burrian Chambered Cairn — Northern Annex in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Taversoe Tuick Two Storey Annex — Eastern Outlier in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Huntersquoy Chambered Cairn — Western Terrace in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Vinquoy Chambered Cairn — Eastern Outlier in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Early Bronze Age (Beaker–Early Bronze, 2200 BCE) · British Early Bronze (Beaker–Thornborough henge communities)
30-m Early Bronze mire-plank trackway (2210 BCE) by Thornborough Henges — henge processional wetland bridge.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3200 BCE) · Neolithic Anglesey (Irish Sea province)
Anglesey portal dolmen with wedge capstone on five stones — small Neolithic tomb in farmland south of Gaerwen.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Windmill Hill
Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure Avebury at Wiltshire, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic of the Windmill Hill tradition, built c.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
West Kennet Long Barrow — Ancillary Ditch Segment in England, Wiltshire, Avebury, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) me…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.1000 BCE–500 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age
Multi-phase broch on loch islet near Lerwick with unique blockhouse forework and wheelhouse overbuild.