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11 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.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.4000–3600 BCE) · Carn / Morbihan Neolithic
Locmariaquer passage dolmen (10 m) with trapezoidal chamber (5 m) and reused grand-menhir capstone bearing axe carving.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Boyne Valley Passage Tomb tradition
Meath passage tomb with wide cruciform chamber, timber-roofed instead of cairn, and profuse engraved art including anthropomorphs.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Tumulus culture)
Tumulus-capped passage grave (6.5 m passage) on Kercado ridge with hafted axe carving — Carnac tumulus evolution exemplar.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Boyne Valley Passage Tomb tradition
Kilkenny dual-passage tomb with lavish megalithic art, aligned to both midwinter sunrise and sunset.
🇪🇸 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.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.4000–3600 BCE) · Carn / Atlantic Neolithic (Morbihan)
Locmariaquer passage dolmen (8 m passage) near Table des Marchands — chamber with engraved axe and crook art.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan megalithic / Chassey-Cerny
Island passage tomb in Gulf of Morbihan with 14 m passage lined with richly carved orthostats, c.4200 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan megalithic
Decorated passage grave at Locmariaquer with art linked to Gavrinis, beside the fallen 20.6 m Grand Menhir.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic · Irish Middle Neolithic (Boyne Valley)
Grand passage tomb in the Bend of the Boyne with 85 m diameter cairn, decorated kerbstones and cruciform chamber. Famous for winter solstice sunrise illuminating chamber through roof-box.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic · Boyne Valley Neolithic
Largest passage tomb complex in Brú na Bóinne: Great Mound with two passages (east-west) and 18 satellite tombs.
