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4 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇬 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (c.3500–3000 BCE) · Channel Island Neolithic (Norman-Breton passage grave)
Guernsey's finest passage grave (10.5 m passage) with 'Guardian' anthropomorphic carving on capstone — unique Channel Island art.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (~4000–3500 BCE; medieval chapel atop) · Armorican / Channel Neolithic (Norman Neolithic)
Jersey's paramount Neolithic monument crowns a 12-m artificial mound containing a cruciform passage grave with a 12-m roofed chamber aligned so equinox sunrise illuminates the rear cell.
🇬🇬 Guernsey · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Guernsey Early Neolithic
Early passage grave by L'Ancresse Road, Guernsey, c.4500 BCE, among Europe's oldest (6000 years).
🇬🇬 Guernsey · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Guernsey Passage Grave
Largest passage grave on Guernsey, L'Ancresse Common, 10 m chamber with side cells, c.4000 BCE.
