🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Lepsius Mound Outlier — Chancay (Lima)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Lepsius Mound Outlier in Chancay, Peru is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Iron Age culture.
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🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Lepsius Mound Outlier in Chancay, Peru is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Hillfort
Iron Age (400 BCE–500 CE) · Gotlandic Iron Age
Massive coastal hillfort on Grogarnsberget limestone plateau (65 m) above Katthammarsvik, with 1200 m stone wall 4 m high enclosing 45 ha, double walls at north.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Burial field
Pre-Roman Iron Age to Viking (500 BCE–1000 CE) · South Scandinavian Iron Age
Badelunda grave field at Tuna, 90 visible monuments (mounds, stone circles, ship settings) along 500 m esker ridge, excavated by Hellman.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork
Iron Age, Late La Tene 148 BCE · Late Iron Age La Tene Ireland
147 BCE Iron Age oak plank highway (3.2 m wide, 1.6 km) across Corlea Bog, largest European timber road built in one year.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Middle to Late Iron Age (Atlantic Iron Age) · Shetland Atlantic Iron Age builders
South Mousa second broch and wheelhouse village 1.2 km south of famous Mousa Broch: prototype 500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
Middle Iron Age Atlantic (vitrified forte) · Minch Hebridean islanders
Summit vitrified dun (28×18 m) with plastered rock-cut rain cistern (5.5 m³) on Garbh Eilean, Shiants.
🇫🇷 France · Hydraulic works
Iron Age (Hallstatt–La Tène) to early Gallo-Roman · Vendée maritime salt artisans (Armorican → Picton maritime)
Atlantic salt-marsh canal network (2.4 km, 2-4 m wide) feeding 180 evaporation pans producing 30 t sea salt/yr (Iron Age).
🇮🇪 Ireland · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (La Tène B / Gaelic Ireland) · Gaelic Iron Age Ireland
Eastern continuation (48 m asl, 53°37′N 07°50′W 53.62,-7.84 Cloonbreany 2 Cartron Rd N39 XT18) of the Iron Age Corlea Trackway (148 BC precise dendro of 18-m preserved hall, 148 BC autumn fell) bog…
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age Moated 600 BCE–500 CE → Chenla · Iron Age Isan–Khmer moated (Mekong–Tonle) → Chenla
Iron Age moated town and cemetery (c.600 BCE–500 CE) at Phum Snay inland from the Tonle Sap northwest — linear earthwork 15 km with moat ditch and 21 burials with agate–carnelian beads, bronze…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (peak Iron Age) · Bronze Age to Iron Age Severn communities
Iron Age corduroy trackways (1000–100 BCE) on Goldcliff intertidal peat shelf — 30-m brushwood causeways.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic (2000–1300) → Black-slipped/Iron (1300–600 BCE) → NBPW–Gupta (600 BCE–600 CE) · Middle Ganga Narhan–Khairadih → NBPW–Buddhist Ganga
Middle Ganga Chalcolithic–Iron Age village (c.2000 BCE–600 CE) on the Ghaghara–Ganga doab at Khairadih near Buxar/Ballia — excavated 1981–83 by Birendra Pratap Singh (BHU Banaras).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Chalcolithic through Ottoman; EBA III, MB–LB Canaanite, Iron I–II Philistine/Judahite, Crusader–Mamluk · EBA Canaanite → Philistine Pentapolis (Sea Peoples) → Judahite fortress → Crusader
40 ha Philistine pentapolis capital — EBA to Crusader tell with Gath Siege Trench and Goliath inscription (c.5000 BCE–present).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Southern Neolithic (2000–1200) → Iron overlap (1200–500 BCE) → Early Historic · Southern Neolithic → Deccan Megalithic–Iron
Southern Neolithic–Iron Age transitional town (c.2000 BCE–500 BCE) at Hallur on the Tungabhadra–Malaprabha interfluve near Haveri — excavated 1965–76 by M.S.
🇪🇸 Spain · Hillfort
Iron Age (600–100 BCE) · Iron Age
Zamora Hillfort El Castillón Outer Wall in Castile and León, Zamora, Spain is a Iron Age (600–100 BCE) hillfort attributed to Iron Age.
🇪🇸 Spain · Hillfort
Iron Age (600–100 BCE) · Iron Age
Los Millares Outer Fort 1 in Andalusia, Almería, Santa Fe de Mondújar, Spain is a Iron Age (600–100 BCE) hillfort attributed to Iron Age.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Iron Age (600–100 BCE) · Iron Age
Trevelgue Head Cliff Castle in Cornwall, Newquay, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (600–100 BCE) hillfort attributed to Iron Age.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Iron Age (600–100 BCE) · Iron Age
Carn Brea Inner Rampart in Cornwall, Carn Brea, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (600–100 BCE) hillfort attributed to Iron Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA through Iron III; Iron Age capital phase · Amuq EBA → Syro-Hittite Luwian-Aramaean Pattin → Assyrian Kinalua
Neo-Hittite capital of Pattin (20 ha double city) on Orontes — Bit-Hilani palaces, colossal Syro-Hittite sculpture and Luwian inscriptions, now cotton-buried lower town.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tomb
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Outer Derinkuyu Fortress Inner — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-02) at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Iron Age (regional) tomb of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Rock art
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Sacred Great Zimbabwe Sanctuary East — Great Zimbabwe (57-16) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Iron Age (regional) rock art of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Lower Alexandria Ridge I — Alexandria, Pharos (58-36) at Alexandria, Pharos, Egypt is a Iron Age (regional) submerged city of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇲🇱 Mali · Temple complex
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
New Djenné-Jeno Enclosure B — Djenné-Jeno (57-25) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Iron Age (regional) temple complex of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 200 CE for enclosure and associated settlement.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Western Delphi Ridge Central — Delphi (60-05) at Delphi, Greece is a Iron Age (regional) archaeological wonder of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.