🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Adam's Grave
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Wessex
Chambered long barrow on Walkers Hill above Alton Barnes, 70 m, c.3650 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Annaghmare Court Tomb
Middle Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb tradition
Court tomb near Crossmaglen, 13 m gallery with shallow court, at foot of Ring of Gullion, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Clontygora Court Tomb
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Huge court tomb near Killeen (King's Ring), court 6.4×13 m, lintelled entrance, c.3800 BCE.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dolmen de Alberite
Early to Middle Neolithic · Andalusian Neolithic / Guadalquivir Megalithic
20 m Andalusian corridor dolmen in Cádiz hills with painted orthostats and 30 m tumulus, c.4000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Goward Dolmen
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb
Massive portal tomb between Hilltown and Castlewellan, granite capstone on cairn with north cist, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn
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
Glebe Cairn
Early Bronze Age · Bronze Age Food Vessel
Gravel-terrace cemetery cairn NW of Kilmartin village with seven Bronze Age cists.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Archaeological wonder
Hwaseong Fortress (Suwon)
Joseon Dynasty 1794–1796 CE · Joseon Korean (Jeongjo)
5.52 km bastioned city wall (1794–1796) built by King Jeongjo to honor father Prince Sado and establish new capital, combining Korean, Chinese and Western bastion design via Silhak scholar Jeong…
🇯🇪 Jersey · Megalith
Ville-ès-Nouaux Dolmen
Middle to Late Neolithic · Jersey Neolithic
Urban dolmen and cist-in-circle complex in St Helier, Jersey, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Holm of Papa Westray South Cairn
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
Ballyalton Court Tomb
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Rock-outcrop court tomb east of Downpatrick, type site for Ballyalton bowls, c.4000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn
Early Neolithic · Orkney Cromarty stalled tradition
Rousay stalled cairn — 13 m seven-compartment chamber under 22 m mound on south coast.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Tumulus de Bougon
Early to Middle Neolithic · Atlantic Early Neolithic / Cerny
Necropolis of six tumuli A-F spanning 4800-3000 BCE, including oldest megalithic building in western France.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Anderson Mounds
Middle Woodland Hopewell–Adena 250 BCE–200 CE · Hopewell tradition (Adena antecedent)
Hopewell circular enclosure and Great Mound, 250 BCE–200 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
West Kennet Long Barrow
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn Neolithic
100 m Early Neolithic chambered long barrow near Avebury with five sarsen chambers under chalk mound.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Pettigarths Field Cairn
Middle Neolithic · Shetland Neolithic
Heel-shaped chambered cairn on Whalsay, 15 m, part of Yoxie settlement complex, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Mycenae
Mycenaean Helladic 1600–1100 BCE, peak 1350–1200 BCE · Mycenaean Greeks
Homeric citadel with Cyclopean walls, Lion Gate and gold mask tombs.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Belas Knap Long Barrow
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn trapezoidal long barrow on Cleeve Hill with four chambers and false portal entrance.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Er Grah Tumulus
Early to Middle Neolithic · Morbihan Neolithic
140 m Neolithic tumulus at Locmariaquer — longest in Brittany, part of Grand Menhir alignment.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ormaig Rock Art
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Late Neolithic
Forest clearing cup-and-ring cluster on Creag Mhor, 120+ motifs, c.3000 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Table des Marchand
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan megalithic
Decorated passage grave at Locmariaquer with art linked to Gavrinis, beside the fallen 20.6 m Grand Menhir.
🇬🇬 Guernsey · Megalith
Les Fouaillages
Early Neolithic · Guernsey Early Neolithic
Early passage grave by L'Ancresse Road, Guernsey, c.4500 BCE, among Europe's oldest (6000 years).
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Tiryns
Mycenaean 1600–1100 BCE, acme 1300–1200 BCE · Mycenaean
Cyclopean citadel with earliest vaulted galleries in Europe and megaron palace.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Dunchraigaig Cairn
Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Early Neolithic / Beaker
Chambered cairn beside A816 with three Bronze Age cists and 2021 animal carvings discovery.