🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Long Meg and Her Daughters
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Late Neolithic Cumbrian
Largest circle in northern England — 59-stone oval with 3.6 m outlier Long Meg bearing cup-and-ring spirals.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Late Neolithic Cumbrian
Largest circle in northern England — 59-stone oval with 3.6 m outlier Long Meg bearing cup-and-ring spirals.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Preseli Early Neolithic
Wales' largest portal dolmen with 16-tonne capstone on three 2.4 m orthostats.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Medway Early Neolithic
Remnant chamber of Medway long barrow above River Medway — three sarsens supporting 3.5 m capstone.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Severn-Cotswold Neolithic
Severn-Cotswold long cairn near Cardiff with Britain's largest capstone at 40 tonnes.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Two-phase Neolithic long barrow near Uffington with sarsen passage grave overlain on earlier oval mound.
🇬🇧 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 · Windmill Hill / Late Neolithic Wessex
Largest megalithic stone circle in Europe (11.5 ha), enclosing outer bank and ditch and two inner circles. Village of Avebury sits partially within the monument.
🇬🇧 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 Neolithic · Severn-Cotswold
Portal dolmen near Cardiff with 35-tonne capstone on three orthostats, remnant of Severn-Cotswold long cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Medway Early Neolithic
Best-preserved Medway rectangular long barrow with kerb and sarsen chamber on North Downs.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Upper Palaeolithic to Mesolithic · Maglemosian / Mesolithic hunter-gatherers
Vast Mesolithic plain linking Britain to Europe (11000–5500 BCE) with river valleys, forests, hunting camps surveyed via seismic and cores; inundated by post-glacial rise and Storegga tsunami 6200…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Windmill Hill culture
Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Windmill Hill culture culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 373).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Wessex
West Kennet Avenue (Avebury) in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic attributed to Wessex culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 373).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Major Late Neolithic walled enclosure (c.3200–2300 BCE) between Ring of Brodgar and Stenness, with monolithic structures including Structure 10 (25 m hall) with painted stone, tiled roof and imported…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware
Timber-circle henge (Woodhenge, 6 rings, 168 posts) and Durrington Walls super-henge (500 m diameter, 17 ha, 2 entrances, largest henge in Britain) – contemporary settlement of Stonehenge builders…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Exceptionally preserved Late Neolithic stone-built village of eight clustered houses with stone furniture, hearths and drains. Revealed 1850 after storm, often called Scotland's answer to Pompeii.
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Early Neolithic · Medway Megaliths
Coldrum Long Barrow (Coldrum Stones) in Kent, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Medway Megaliths culture.
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Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Peak District
Arbor Low in Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic Peak District culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Middle Bronze Age · Dartmoor Bronze Age
Concentrated Late Neolithic–Bronze Age ritual settlement on Dartmoor: double stone rows (up to 264 m), stone circle, standing stone (3.2 m), cists, hut circles and Bronze Age field systems on open…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Orkney.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Orkney.
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Bronze Age · Bronze Age
Bronze Age megalithic at Orkney.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Rock art
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic rock-art at Orkney.