🇬🇧 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
Carn Euny Village and Fogou
Iron Age · Cornish Iron Age
Carn Euny Village and Fogou at Cornwall, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient village of the Cornish Iron Age tradition, built c. 300 BCE for courtyard houses and 20 m fogou.
🇬🇧 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 · Megalith
Callanish III (Cnoc Fillibhir Bheag)
Late Neolithic · Hebridean Late Neolithic
Concentric double circle (13.7 m outer) with inner 4-stone ring and cairn, 500 m SE of Callanish I.
🇬🇧 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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Audleystown Court Tomb
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Dual court tomb above Strangford Lough narrows, two opposed galleries, eight chambers, 34 burials, c.3900 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Tumulus
Priory Pit Tumulus
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Priory Pit Tumulus in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) tumulus attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Lairo Chambered Cairn
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Horned long stalled cairn 50 m long on Rousay, c.3600 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Dunadd Fort
Neolithic to Early Medieval · Dál Riata (Gaelic) over Neolithic substratum
Hillfort capital of Dál Riata atop rock in Moine Mhòr, with Neolithic art and royal footprint carving.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Hazleton North Long Cairn
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Fully excavated Cotswold-Severn cairn at Hazleton, 21 burials, detailed construction sequence, c.3800 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ballymeanoch Stone Row and Henge
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Neolithic/Bronze Age
Four-stone chlorite row (to 2.8 m) with 70 cup marks, adjacent cairns and ploughed henge in Kilmartin Glen.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Zennor Quoit
Early Neolithic · Penwith Early Neolithic
Ruinous 12.8 m mound dolmen on Zennor Hill with slipped 4.8 m capstone over 3.5 m chamber.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Adam's Grave
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Wessex
Chambered long barrow on Walkers Hill above Alton Barnes, 70 m, c.3650 BCE.