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23 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇧 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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2500 BCE) · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Late Neolithic village on Loch of Harray with 15 houses and ceremonial hall Structure 8 facing the Stones of Stenness.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Early to Late Neolithic (c.3600–2600 BCE) · Early Neolithic → Grooved Ware Orcadian Neolithic
Wideford Hill settlement with earliest Orkney timber houses (3600 BCE) and later stone village bridging Early–Late Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early–Middle Neolithic (c.3500 BCE) · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
23 m stalled chambered cairn — Orkney's longest — with 12 compartments and remains of 25 Neolithic burials.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3600–3200 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Unstan Ware)
Unstan cairn (c.3600–3200 BCE, Early Neolithic) is a unique hybrid stalled-Orkney-Cromarty chambered cairn on a Loch of Stenness promontory 2 mi NE of Stromness, 13 m long dividing into five stalls…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age (c.100 BCE–400 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian) / possible Roman contact
Iron Age underground sanctuary in Tankerness with 29-step stair descending 7.5 m to a corbelled chamber.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (c.2000–1500 BCE) · Orcadian Early Bronze Age (Beaker–Food Vessel)
The Knowes of Trotty (Early Bronze Age c.2000–1800 BCE) is a 1.5-m high burnt mound cemetery of 8 low barrows on the Harray lochside, famous 1858 excavation by George Petrie yielding the richest…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE, Norse reuse 12th c. CE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Grooved Ware) + Norse
Eynhallow chambered cairn (Maeshowe-type, c.3200–2800 BCE) is a 17-m Orkney-Cromarty stalled cairn on the uninhabited tidal island of Eynhallow in Eynhallow Sound, built of flagstone slabs with three…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Triple-walled Orkney-Cromarty cairn near Kirkwall with 4.5 m passage to tripartite corbelled chamber.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age (c.200 BCE–200 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian)
Finely preserved Rousay broch on Eynhallow Sound with intramural galleries and adjacent chambered cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2900 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Grooved Ware)
Cuween Hill cairn (c.3200–2900 BCE) is a Maeshowe-type chambered cairn 21 m diameter crowning Cuween Hill above Kirkwall, with a 8-m low entrance passage leading to a 6-m central chamber with four…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Rock-cut tomb carved from single 8.6 m boulder on Hoy, the only one in Britain, c.3000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Maeshowe tradition
Rousay's unique two-storey cairn — lower and upper chambers stacked in 15 m round mound.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney Early Neolithic
20 m stalled long cairn on uninhabited holm off Papa Westray — paired with South cairn 200 m away.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Unstan Ware Neolithic
Eponymous stalled cairn at Stenness — 8.4 m five-compartment chamber where Unstan Ware was first identified.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age · Orcadian Neolithic
Cliff-top stalled cairn on South Ronaldsay famed for 16,000 human bones and eagle remains.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Coastal long stalled cairn on Westray eroding at Point of Cott, c.3600 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early–Middle Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Stalled cairn on Rousay with tripartite chamber, 29 burials, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Maeshowe-type hilltop cairn on Eday with four side cells, c.3200 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Neolithic (Maeshowe group)
Maeshowe-type cairn on hill above Firth with 5 m crawl passage to chamber containing human and dog skulls.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney Early Neolithic (Bookan tradition)
10 m round Bookan-type chamber with three cells, 200 m south of paired North long cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney Cromarty stalled tradition
Rousay stalled cairn — 13 m seven-compartment chamber under 22 m mound on south coast.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Major Late Neolithic walled enclosure (c.3200–2300 BCE) between Ring of Brodgar and Stenness, with monolithic structures including Structure 10 (25 m hall) with painted stone, tiled roof and imported…
