🇲🇳 Mongolia · Geoglyph
Steppe Kite Desert Gate East — Gobi (Ulaanbaatar)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Steppe Kite Desert Gate East in Gobi, Mongolia is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Megalith
Watson Brake Mound — Ohio Valley (Chillicothe)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Watson Brake Mound in Ohio Valley, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Emerald Mound Natchez South
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Emerald Mound Natchez South in Giza Plateau, Egypt is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) pyramid attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Buried city
Lindenmeier Paleo Site — Altiplano (La Paz)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Lindenmeier Paleo Site in Altiplano, Bolivia is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Edfu Pyramid South — Khuzestan — edfu-pyramid
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Edfu Pyramid South in Khuzestan, Iran is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇬🇧 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.
🇱🇦 Laos · Megalith
Plain of Jars
Iron Age 500 BCE – 500 CE (some lids to 800 CE) · Unknown Austroasiatic? Ancestors of Lao-Tai
Megalithic landscape of >90 sites with >2,100 large carved sandstone jars (1–3 m tall, up to 14 t) scattered across Xiangkhouang plateau, carved 500 BCE–500 CE, associated with mortuary rites and…
🇫🇮 Finland · Archaeological wonder
Levänluhta
Iron Age
Levänluhta (Finnish: [ˈleʋænˌluhtɑ]; lit. "alga's floodmeadow") or Leväluhta is a spring and prominent archaeological site in the village of Orismala in Isokyrö, Finland.
🇬🇧 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.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Prohear
Iron Age Funan precursor 500 BCE–200 CE → Funan–Chenla · Mekong Iron Age (Prohear) → Funan (proto-Khmer)
Iron Age mass burial and settlement terrace (c.500 BCE–200 CE) at Prohear in Prey Veng near Mekong, southern Cambodia — circular mound 0.8 ha excavated 2008–11 by Andreas Reinecke (German–Cambodian)…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Meare Lake Village East (Somerset Levels east settlement)
Iron Age (Middle–Late Iron Age, 350–50 BCE) · British Iron Age (Meare–Glastonbury ware, southwest Iron Age)
Iron Age (350–50 BCE) Meare East lake village — 400 x 90 m east island with 20 brushwood roundhouses.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village
Clonbrin Causey (Edercloon) – Longford/Offaly Bog Road
Late Iron Age (La Tène) · Irish Iron Age (Ulster–Connacht)
1.5-km Iron Age oak plank causeway (120 BCE) — Edercloon's wheeled transport togher.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Rehov (Rehov)
Late Bronze Age through Iron Age II (c.1550–732 BCE); LB Canaanite, Iron I–II Israelite/Aramaean, Assyrian · LB Canaanite (Rehov/Sharuhen?) → Iron I Israelite → Israelite–Aramaean contested city
Beth Shean Valley’s largest mound (10 ha) with 10th-c. apiary (30 hives) and Iron I–II Rehov — Shoshenq anchor (1200–732 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Porsuk Höyük (Zeyve Höyük)
Middle Bronze to Hellenistic (Karum → Neo-Hittite/Tabal, Iron Age, Hellenistic) · Hittite/Luwian → Tabal → Neo-Hittite (Luwian-Phrygian contact)
Neo-Hittite/Iron Age tell (ancient Tynna) on Cilician Gates — Hittite citadel, Luwian inscriptions and Tabal fortifications.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork
Hill of Tara
Neolithic to Early Medieval (c.3400 BCE–1200 CE) · Neolithic → Iron Age La Tène → Early Medieval Gaelic
Ireland's paramount ceremonial landscape (142 ha) — Neolithic tomb, Lia Fáil kingship stone and Iron Age royal enclosure complex.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork
Grianan of Aileach
Iron Age to Early Medieval (c.1000 BCE–1100 CE) · Iron Age Gaelic → Early Medieval Uí Néill
Donegal hilltop royal cashel (23.5 m diameter) on Greenan Mountain — northern Uí Néill kingship inauguration fort.
🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient village
Campen Plank Road – Emsland Bog Trackway (Landegge)
Early Iron Age (Hallstatt C) · Ems-Hunte Iron Age (Pre-Roman)
1.2-km split-oak corduroy (668 BCE) across Campen Moor — earliest Emsland Bohlenweg.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork
Dún Aonghasa
Late Bronze Age to Early Medieval (c.1100 BCE–800 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age / Early Medieval Gaelic
Cliff-edge triple stone fort on Inishmore (6 ha) with massive chevaux-de-frise of jagged limestone — Ireland's most dramatic hillfort.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Crosskirk Broch
Early Iron Age to Norse (c.600 BCE–900 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age / Norse
Eroded Caithness cliff broch with early fort, broch tower and Norse layers; half lost to sea after 1960s excavation.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Adam Wainganga Mound
Chalcolithic 1300–1200 → Early Iron Age 1200–300 BCE · Vidarbha Chalcolithic → Iron Age transition — Adam facies
Adam Wainganga Mound — Iron Age Chalcolithic–Megalithic transition site (1300–300 BCE) on Nag River at Kuhi, first recognized Chalcolithic-to-Iron Age mound in Vidarbha, excavated 1988–89 and…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Earthwork
Eketorp Ringfort — Öland
Iron Age to Medieval (c.400–1300 CE) · Scandinavian Migration/Vendel and Medieval Gotlandic–Swedish
Eketorp, on southeastern Öland's Stora Alvaret limestone plain, is the only fully excavated of Öland's 19 Iron Age ringforts, a concentric limestone-walled fortress 70 m diameter with 53…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Pirak
Late Harappan → Pirak I–III 1800–800 BCE → Iron Age · Pirak culture (post-Harappan / early Iron Age, Indo-Iranian?)
Post-Harappan / Iron Age settlement (c.1800–800 BCE) south of Sibi at the Bolan Pass mouth, Balochistan — type-site for Pirak culture documenting the Harappan → Iron Age transition.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Ziyaret Tepe (Tušhan)
Bronze Age veneer → Neo-Assyrian provincial (Iron Age) · Mitanni → Middle/Neo-Assyrian (Ashurnasirpal II–Ashurbanipal)
Assyrian imperial capital Tušhan (883–611 BCE) — 32 ha citadel + lower town with palace, palace ware and Tigris quay, burned at Median fall, Upper Tigris frontier.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Mousa Broch
Iron Age (c.300–100 BCE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Shetland)
World's tallest surviving broch (13.3 m), perfectly preserved Iron Age tower on uninhabited Mousa island.