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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Medway Megaliths
Kit's Coty House in Kent, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Medway Megaliths culture. Megalithic construction with sarsen; evidence of ceremonial and funerary use.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3500–2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Spectacular Rousay cairn excavated 1932–34, largest in Orkney, with 25 individuals and an adjacent Iron Age broch landscape visible across Eynhallow Sound.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Megalith
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Bronze Age
Adrar Stone Circle in Tassili, Algeria is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) megalithic attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Neolithic to Iron Age (2000–500 BCE) · Eastern Neolithic / early Jamshedpur
Kuchai — Singhbhum Neolith and Megalith in Jharkhand, India is a Neolithic to Iron Age (2000–500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Eastern Neolithic / early Jamshedpur.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (3500 BCE) Alentejo dolmen Fontainhas with painted serpent Hunt Panel · Ourique Alentejo dolmen art
Fontainhas painted 3500 hunt scene oldest Alentejo dolmen painting.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (3000 BCE) Beira Alta Cunha Baixa complex (type-site Beira dolmen) · Beira Neolithic Cunha Baixa painted pottery group
Cunha Baixa excav Leisure 1960s sun motif.
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
South Indian Neolithic (2900–1800 BCE) · South Indian Neolithic cattle pastoralists
Utnur — Mahbubnagar Ash Mound in Telangana, India is a South Indian Neolithic (2900–1800 BCE) megalithic attributed to South Indian Neolithic cattle pastoralists.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Orkney-Cromarty chambered cairn on Rousay flank, excavated by Henshall, with stalled chamber and partition slabs, containing Neolithic human bone and pottery.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Table des Marchands in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic attributed to Armorican Neolithic culture. Megalithic construction with granite; evidence of ceremonial and funerary use.
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
South Indian Neolithic (3000–1400 BCE) · South Indian Neolithic
Maski — Ash Mound and Megalith Extension in Karnataka, India is a South Indian Neolithic (3000–1400 BCE) megalithic attributed to South Indian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Clava Cairns / Beaker
Inverness's classic Clava group excavated by Piggott 1952–53, midwinter sunset aligns down passage, Balnuaran has 3 cairns.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3500 BCE) partly submerged · Morbihan
Er Lannic Double Cromlech in Brittany, Morbihan, Gulf of Morbihan, France is a Late Neolithic (3500 BCE) partly submerged megalithic attributed to Morbihan culture.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (c.4000–3000 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic
Westernmost major Carnac alignments sector east of Kermario, with dense rows and western horseshoe cromlech excavated by Zacharie Le Rouzic.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Wari Middle Horizon 600–1000 CE · Wari (Huari imperial)
Wari mausoleum 64 tombs gold queens 600–800 CE, intact 2012.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600–8200 BCE) · PPN hunter-gatherer (Göbeklian)
Germuş hill excavated by Schmidt 1995–, 20 enclosures with T-pillars and animal reliefs,intentionally backfilled 8200 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3000 BCE) · Channel Islands Late Neolithic
Le Creux ès Faïes in Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Channel Islands Late Neolithic culture.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–3500 BCE) · Morbihan megalithic
Flagship Morbihan passage grave, capstone once part of broken Grand Menhir of Er Grah, decorated with hook and hatchet carvings.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic (3700 BCE) · Irish Neolithic / Carrowmore
Carrowmore's centre excavated by P. Woodman 1977–82, dolmen with boulder circle and passage facing Knocknarea's Queen Maeve cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Cumbrian
Birkrigg Stone Circle in Cumbria, Furness, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Cumbrian culture.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE group 7 dolmens in 1 km) · Galician Neolithic cluster Pedra da Arca 7 tombs
Pedra da Arca 7 dolmens cluster.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (1600 BCE? — stone older) · Grooved Ware
Rudston Monolith in East Yorkshire, Wolds, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (1600 BCE? — stone older) megalithic attributed to Grooved Ware culture.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (5000–4000 BCE menhir of 7.15 m phallic Bernardus hill) · Alentejo Neolithic menhir carver 5000 BCE
Meada menhir 1990 inspection largest Iberia 7.15 m 18 t.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (3500–3200 BCE) · Penwith chambered
Trethevy Quoit — Tremar in Cornwall, East Cornwall, United Kingdom is a Neolithic (3500–3200 BCE) megalithic attributed to Penwith chambered culture.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Megalith
Neolithic to Iron (3500 BCE–800 CE tumuli sequence) · Saharan Neolithic to Berber/Garamantian fringe
Awkar surveyed by Vernet & Naffé 1990s, tumuli chain 1000.