🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Cave
Pontnewydd Cave
Neanderthal (230k–225k BP) · Neanderthal (Mousterian)
Pontnewydd Cave in Denbighshire, Elwy Valley, Wales, United Kingdom is a Neanderthal (230k–225k BP) cave attributed to Neanderthal (Mousterian) culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Rudston Monolith
Late Neolithic (1600 BCE? — stone older) · Grooved Ware
Rudston Monolith in East Yorkshire, Wolds, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (1600 BCE? — stone older) megalithic attributed to Grooved Ware culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Merry Maidens Stone Circle — St Buryan
Late Neolithic – Bronze Age · Cornish Late Neolithic
Merry Maidens Stone Circle — St Buryan in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic – Bronze Age megalithic attributed to Cornish Late Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Thornborough Henges
Late Neolithic (3500–2500 BCE) · Grooved Ware
Thornborough Henges in North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3500–2500 BCE) earthwork attributed to Grooved Ware culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ring of Brodgar Outlier — Seat of Brodgar Farm Stone
Late Neolithic (2600–2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Solitary outlier 80 m beyond Ring of Brodgar ditch, thought to mark northern lunar minor standstill sightline from henge centre.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Zennor Quoit — Penwith Moor
Neolithic (2500 BCE) · Penwith
Zennor Quoit — Penwith Moor in Cornwall, West Penwith, United Kingdom is a Neolithic (2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Penwith culture. Detailed survey and excavation document architectural phasing.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Unstan Chambered Cairn Stenness
Mid Neolithic (3450–2800 BCE) · Unstan Ware
Loch of Stenness-shore cairn excavated by Clouston 1884, style-site for Unstan pottery, yielding crouched burials and Grooved Ware later.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Danebury Hillfort
Iron Age (550 BCE–100 CE) · Iron Age Wessex (Atrebates)
Type-site Iron Age hillfort (c. 550 BCE) covering 5 hectares on a chalk ridge north-west of Winchester.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Callanish IV — Garynahine Stone Circle
Late Neolithic (2900–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic Hebridean
Lewis's Callanish IV, 3 km S of Callanish I, with elliptical setting and cairn, excavated depression 1960s.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Chûn Castle Hillfort — Penwith
Iron Age (300 BCE) · Dumnonii
Chûn Castle Hillfort — Penwith in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (300 BCE) hillfort attributed to Dumnonii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Dodman Point Cliff Fort
Iron Age (300 BCE) · Dumnonii
Dodman Point Cliff Fort in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (300 BCE) hillfort attributed to Dumnonii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Cott Valley Hut Settlement — St Just
Iron Age · Dumnonii
Cott Valley Hut Settlement — St Just in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Nine Maidens — Boskednan Circle
Late Neolithic · Penwith builders
Nine Maidens — Boskednan Circle in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic attributed to Penwith builders.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Tregeseal Stone Circle — St Just
Late Neolithic · Cornish Neolithic
Tregeseal Stone Circle — St Just in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic attributed to Cornish Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Godrevy Headland Hut Circles
Bronze Age · Cornish Bronze Age
Godrevy Headland Hut Circles in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age ancient-village attributed to Cornish Bronze Age.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ness of Brodgar
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
Woodhenge & Durrington Walls
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
Wayland's Smithy — The Ridgeway
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Windmill Hill
Neolithic long barrow on the Ridgeway (c. 3600 BCE) with two phases: early mortuary enclosure and later trapezoidal mound covering cruciform chamber of sarsen and oolite.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Coldrum Long Barrow (Coldrum Stones)
Early Neolithic · Medway Megaliths
Coldrum Long Barrow (Coldrum Stones) in Kent, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Medway Megaliths culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Merrivale Stone Rows
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 · Archaeological wonder
Jodrell Bank Observatory
astronomical observatory in Cheshire, England, UK
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Carn Ingli Hillfort
Iron Age (c.500 BCE–100 CE) with Bronze Age cairn · Iron Age Welsh (Demetae) / Early Medieval
Rocky tor-top hillfort (343 m) above Newport — stone-rampart contour fort with hut circles on Mynydd Carningli.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Lindholme Neolithic Trackway & Platform (Hatfield Moors, South Yorkshire)
Late Neolithic (2900–2500 BCE) · British Late Neolithic (Humberhead fen communities)
45-m Late Neolithic corduroy trackway (2900–2500 BCE) over Hatfield pool to platform — earliest in Britain.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Must Farm Bronze Age Settlement
Late Bronze Age (~1000–800 BCE) · British Late Bronze Age fenland communities
900 BCE stilt village burned and silt-sealed—Britain's Pompeii with pots still stacked.