🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Midhowe Chambered Cairn
Early–Middle Neolithic (c.3500 BCE) · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
23 m stalled chambered cairn — Orkney's longest — with 12 compartments and remains of 25 Neolithic burials.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Boa Island Janus Figures
Iron Age (Celtic) · Pre-Christian Celtic / Iron Age Ireland
Iron Age janus idols (1.2 m double-headed) in Boa Island cemetery, Lough Erne — most enigmatic Celtic stones in Ireland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
King Arthur's Stone (Herefordshire)
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
32-tonne Herefordshire Cotswold-Severn tomb — nine uprights under 25 m mound on Golden Valley ridge.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Bryn Celli Ddu Passage Grave Anglesey
Late Neolithic · Anglesey Neolithic
Bryn Celli Ddu Passage Grave Anglesey at Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic of the Anglesey Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Castlerigg — Borrowdale Cairn Knot (Northwest Outlier)
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Castlerigg — Borrowdale Cairn Knot (Northwest Outlier) in England, Cumbria, Keswick, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE)…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knockmany Passage Tomb (Annia's Cove)
Late Neolithic · Boyne / Loughcrew tradition (western outlier)
Hilltop 15 m passage tomb with three decorated stones (spirals/lozenges) — westernmost Boyne-style tomb in Ulster.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Grimspound Village Dartmoor
Late Bronze Age · Dartmoor Bronze Age
Grimspound Village Dartmoor at Devon, United Kingdom is a Late Bronze Age ancient village of the Dartmoor Bronze Age tradition, built c. 1300 BCE for pound-walled village 24 hut circles.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Knap of Howar Papa Westray
Early Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Knap of Howar Papa Westray at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic ancient village of the Orcadian Neolithic tradition, built c. 3700 BCE for oldest standing houses in nw europe.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Old Scatness Broch and Iron Age Village
Iron Age to Medieval (c.400 BCE–1400 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age / Pictish / Norse
Iron Age broch village opposite Jarlshof with Pictish and Viking layers; one of Scotland's largest modern excavations.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Triple-walled Orkney-Cromarty cairn near Kirkwall with 4.5 m passage to tripartite corbelled chamber.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Duddo Five Stones — Northumberland
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…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Taversoe Tuick Two Storey Cairn
Neolithic · Orkney Neolithic
Taversoe Tuick Two Storey Cairn at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Orkney Neolithic tradition, built c. 3250 BCE for unique two-storey chambered cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Old Scatness Broch Village
Iron Age · Atlantic Iron Age
Old Scatness Broch Village at Shetland, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient village of the Atlantic Iron Age tradition, built c. 400 BCE for broch with wheelhouse village.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Broch of Gurness Orkney
Iron Age · Atlantic Iron Age
Broch of Gurness Orkney at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Iron Age megalithic of the Atlantic Iron Age tradition, built c. 200 BCE for broch with external village and ditch.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Midhowe Broch
Iron Age (c.200 BCE–200 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian)
Finely preserved Rousay broch on Eynhallow Sound with intramural galleries and adjacent chambered cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Ruins of Karez Terramare Monastery
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Ruins of Karez Terramare Monastery in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Roman culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Bryn Cader Faner
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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Fortress
Citadel of Newfield Well
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Citadel of Newfield Well in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) fortress attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Nether Largie Standing Stones
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Bronze Age
Four-stone row (to 2.8 m) amid Kilmartin's Bronze Age linear cemetery with cup-marked cairns.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Buss Island – Phantom Faroes Bank off Greenland
Tudor cartographic (1578 – 1865) · Tudor English fishery
1578 herring buss phantom west of Galway — ship-type vs island confusion that put a bank at 52N 35W for 300 years.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Traprain Law — Summit Cairn Terrace
Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Traprain Law — Summit Cairn Terrace in Scotland, East Lothian, United Kingdom is a Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) hillfort attributed to Hallstatt / Early Ir…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
La Hougue Bie
Middle Neolithic (~4000–3500 BCE; medieval chapel atop) · Armorican / Channel Neolithic (Norman Neolithic)
Jersey's paramount Neolithic monument crowns a 12-m artificial mound containing a cruciform passage grave with a 12-m roofed chamber aligned so equinox sunrise illuminates the rear cell.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Unstan Chambered Cairn
Early Neolithic · Unstan Ware Neolithic
Eponymous stalled cairn at Stenness — 8.4 m five-compartment chamber where Unstan Ware was first identified.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Ancient City of Bala Cairn
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Ancient City of Bala Cairn in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Moche (100–800 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Moche culture.