🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Clontygora Court Tomb
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Huge court tomb near Killeen (King's Ring), court 6.4×13 m, lintelled entrance, c.3800 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ormaig Rock Art
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Late Neolithic
Forest clearing cup-and-ring cluster on Creag Mhor, 120+ motifs, c.3000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Maeshowe Chambered Cairn
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Finest Orkney chambered cairn: 36 m mound, long passage, corbelled chamber. Midwinter sunset illuminates chamber. Bears 12th-century Viking runic inscriptions (>30).
🇬🇷 Greece · Cave
Alepotrypa Cave
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Final Neolithic / Early Helladic
Vast Neolithic cave complex at Diros Bay, Laconia, used as settlement and burial site 6000–3200 BCE before earthquake sealed entrance.
🇭🇺 Hungary · Tell
Polgár-Csőszhalom Tell Complex
Late Neolithic · Tisza / Csőszhalom
Late Neolithic double tell-horizontal settlement (c. 4800–4500 BCE) on Tisza floodplain, 28 ha with tell core 2 m high, ditch enclosures and 4 m deep well.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Skara Brae
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.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dolmens of Antequera
Neolithic to Bronze Age · Iberian megalithic
Three megalithic monuments (Menga, Viera, El Romeral) forming UNESCO site with natural monuments Peña de los Enamorados and El Torcal.
🇫🇷 France · Tumulus
Tumulus de Mont-Iouarn (Ploumilliau)
Middle to Late Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Passage mound tumulus at Ploumilliau (c. 3500 BCE), 30 m diameter, 5 m high, with granite passage and chamber, excavated 1950s revealing Neolithic pottery and human remains, overlooking Leguer valley.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Barnhouse Stone Age Village
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2500 BCE) · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Late Neolithic village on Loch of Harray with 15 houses and ceremonial hall Structure 8 facing the Stones of Stenness.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Lough Gur Stone Circle (Grange)
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age (c.2500–2000 BCE) · Late Neolithic / Chalcolithic Limerick
Ireland's largest stone circle (46 m, 113 stones) — embanked, contiguous orthostats on Lough Gur shore.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
The Sanctuary (Overton Hill)
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Windmill Hill / Wessex Neolithic
Timber-then-stone double circles (40 m outer) at SE end of West Kennet Avenue — Avebury's mortuary terminus.
🇯🇵 Japan · Submerged site
Old Yonaguni Platform II — Yonaguni (58-07)
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Old Yonaguni Platform II — Yonaguni (58-07) at Yonaguni, Japan is a Neolithic (regional) submerged city of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Megalith
Upper Meroe Ridge South — Meroe (56-30)
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Upper Meroe Ridge South — Meroe (56-30) at Meroe, Sudan is a Neolithic (regional) megalithic of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Stanydale Temple
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Shetland Late Neolithic / Beaker
Shetland's largest Neolithic hall — 12×7 m heel-cairn hall with 3 m thick walls, c.2500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement
Multi-period: Neolithic to Medieval (c.2500 BCE–1600 CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age (Broch) → Pictish → Norse
4,000-year layered settlement mound at Shetland's southern tip with broch, wheelhouses, Viking longhouse and medieval farm.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn
Early–Middle Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Stalled cairn on Rousay with tripartite chamber, 29 burials, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Tinkinswood Burial Chamber
Early Neolithic · Severn-Cotswold Neolithic
Severn-Cotswold long cairn near Cardiff with Britain's largest capstone at 40 tonnes.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Silbury Hill — Avebury Landscape
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Wessex
Largest prehistoric artificial mound in Europe (c. 2400 BCE), 39.3 m high conical chalk mound in Avebury World Heritage Site.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Ancient village
Hazendonk Donk Settlement
Middle to Late Neolithic · Hazendonk Group / Vlaardingen
Neolithic river dune (donk) settlement Hazendonk (c. 4000–2000 BCE) on Rhine-Meuse levee, type-site for Hazendonk Group pottery.
🇬🇷 Greece · Tell
Sesklo Tell
Early to Middle Neolithic · Sesklo Culture
Classic Early to Middle Neolithic tell (c. 6000–4800 BCE) near Volos, type-site of Sesklo culture with early painted pottery, megaron-like houses and fortification wall.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Ancient village
Gyeongju Cheomseongdae South Stone 12
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Gyeongju Cheomseongdae South Stone 12 in Gyeongbuk, Gyeongju, South Korea is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇲🇹 Malta · Ancient city
Royal Hypogeum Ridge B — Hypogeum, Paola (59-07)
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Royal Hypogeum Ridge B — Hypogeum, Paola (59-07) at Hypogeum, Paola, Malta is a Neolithic (regional) ancient city of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Pettigarths Field Cairn
Middle Neolithic · Shetland Neolithic
Heel-shaped chambered cairn on Whalsay, 15 m, part of Yoxie settlement complex, c.3500 BCE.