🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ri Cruin Cairn
Early Bronze Age · Beaker
Outlier kerb cairn at south end of Kilmartin linear cemetery, Beaker period, with lime-kiln reuse.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age · Beaker
Outlier kerb cairn at south end of Kilmartin linear cemetery, Beaker period, with lime-kiln reuse.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Megalith
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Dolmen de Convent in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Moche (100–800 CE) megalithic attributed to Moche culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn long barrow at Notgrove, 48 m with transepted chambers, c.3700 BCE.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Solomonic or late pre-Christian (~1200–1400 CE; contested to 1000 BCE) · Gurage / Sidamo (Ethio-Semitic, Southern Ethiopian megalithic)
One of 160 stelae fields in the Soddo region containing 36 standing pillars, 32 of which are sculpted with swords, paired circles and enigmatic leaf-like motifs up to 3.64 m high.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Wessex
Chambered long barrow on Walkers Hill above Alton Barnes, 70 m, c.3650 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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 States · Earthwork
Mississippian Fort Walton 1100–1550 CE · Fort Walton (Mississippian Pensacola variant)
Fort Walton culture temple mound on Choctawhatchee Bay, 1100–1550 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Maya Classic Late 500–800 CE · Maya (Río Bec–Chenes transitional)
76-m Temple-Palace with painted 147 m² vault fresco, 500–800 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Long barrow southeast of Avebury henge, 40 m, part of WHS barrow cemetery, c.3750 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Late Archaic–Poverty Point ca. 1700–1500 BCE · Poverty Point culture (Jaketown phase)
8-mound Poverty Point–related center, 1700–1500 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Hopewell culture 100 BCE–500 CE · Hopewell (Adena descended, Algonquian? cohort)
Hopewell giant geometric enclosures marking 18.6-yr lunar cycle.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Plaquemine Mississippian Coles Creek-Winterville 900–1450 CE · Coles Creek / Plaquemine
16.7 m truncated pyramid center of 23-mound plaza, 1200–1400 CE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Late Intermediate Chachapoya 1100–1470 CE · Chachapoya
Red-painted cliff chullpa houses 4–5 m tall, 1100–1470 CE Chachapoya.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Huge court tomb near Killeen (King's Ring), court 6.4×13 m, lintelled entrance, c.3800 BCE.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb tradition
Two portal tombs and court tomb at Kilclooney More, Ardara, capstone 30 tons, c.3500 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Western French Neolithic
Major passage dolmen near Rennes — 19.5 m passage of 45-tonne schist slabs, largest in Upper Brittany.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Port Wadi Dolmen in Henan, China is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
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
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
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Late Neolithic Severn
England's third-largest circle complex — 113 m Great Circle plus two smaller circles and Cove near Bristol.
🇬🇧 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 Bronze Age · Bronze Age Food Vessel
Gravel-terrace cemetery cairn NW of Kilmartin village with seven Bronze Age cists.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Archaeological wonder
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…
🇴🇲 Oman · Megalith
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Dolmen de New Dyke in Dhofar, Oman is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Roman culture.