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8 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇧 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 · Ancient village
Neolithic 3500 BCE to Norse 1200 CE with broch Iron Age focus · Neolithic Grooved Ware to Iron Age broch to Norse
Stratified broch and settlement mound (3500 BCE - Norse) at Howe, Stromness, Orkney - 7-m type-section for Atlantic Iron Age.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Archaeological wonder
Phoenician to Late Antique (7th c BCE–5th c CE; peak 7th–6th c BCE) · Phoenician / Mauretanian / Portuguese
Tiny purple island with earliest Atlantic Phoenician 7th c BCE outpost for murex dye – 'Tyr's Atlantic anchor'.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Iron Age to Roman (c.600 BCE–100 CE) · Atlantic Castro (Gallaeci, Celtic)
Castro de Baroña (Iron Age c.600 BCE–100 CE, with 1st c. BCE–CE stone phase) is a spectacular Atlantic castro on a rocky isthmus peninsula cut off by a 50-m isthmus ditch, its 20+ round stone houses…
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.4000–3600 BCE) · Galician Megalithic (Atlantic Neolithic)
Galician passage grave with painted art (43.19N) — 7-orthostat chamber (4.5 m) and 8 m passage under 24 m tumulus.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Late Bronze to Roman (c.900 BCE–100 CE) · Castro culture (Calaici–Bracari coastal)
Cividade de Terroso (Late Bronze Age–Roman, c.900 BCE–100 CE) on a 153-m hill 5 km east of Póvoa de Varzim beach is the coastal anchor of the Ave–Cávado castro system, a 12-hectare walled town with…
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb tradition
Two portal tombs and court tomb at Kilclooney More, Ardara, capstone 30 tons, c.3500 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Vendée Atlantic
Paired dolmens (Virante I and II) near Soullans, Vendée, shared mound, c.3500 BCE.
