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Ballyalton Court Tomb
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Rock-outcrop court tomb east of Downpatrick, type site for Ballyalton bowls, c.4000 BCE.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Rock-outcrop court tomb east of Downpatrick, type site for Ballyalton bowls, c.4000 BCE.
🇬🇧 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
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn Neolithic
100 m Early Neolithic chambered long barrow near Avebury with five sarsen chambers under chalk mound.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Shetland Neolithic
Heel-shaped chambered cairn on Whalsay, 15 m, part of Yoxie settlement complex, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn trapezoidal long barrow on Cleeve Hill with four chambers and false portal entrance.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Late Neolithic
Forest clearing cup-and-ring cluster on Creag Mhor, 120+ motifs, c.3000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Kilmartin Neolithic
Nether Largie South Cairn — Kilmartin in Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Kilmartin Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Early Neolithic / Beaker
Chambered cairn beside A816 with three Bronze Age cists and 2021 animal carvings discovery.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Irish Sea passage grave tradition
Anglesey cruciform passage grave with spiral-decorated stones and 27 m cairn on coastal headland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age (500 BCE–400 CE) · Dumnonii
Carn Euny Ancient Village and Fogou in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (500 BCE–400 CE) ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Preseli Early Neolithic
Wales' largest portal dolmen with 16-tonne capstone on three 2.4 m orthostats.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Severn-Cotswold Neolithic
Severn-Cotswold long cairn near Cardiff with Britain's largest capstone at 40 tonnes.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Irish Sea Passage Tomb tradition
Anglesey passage tomb with 8.4 m passage aligned to midsummer sunrise and decorated spiral stone.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Irish Sea Neolithic
Double portal dolmen in Snowdonia foothills with two capstones sharing a mound near Cardigan Bay.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Severn-Cotswold
Portal dolmen near Cardiff with 35-tonne capstone on three orthostats, remnant of Severn-Cotswold long cairn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Medway Early Neolithic
Best-preserved Medway rectangular long barrow with kerb and sarsen chamber on North Downs.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Wessex
Massive Neolithic henge enclosure (c. 2600 BCE), 500 m diameter, largest in Britain, with southern timber circle and dense Late Neolithic settlement (1000+ pits, houses).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Windmill Hill culture
Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Windmill Hill culture culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 373).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Wessex
Largest prehistoric artificial mound in Europe (c. 2400 BCE), 39.3 m high conical chalk mound in Avebury World Heritage Site.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (2000 BCE) · Clava Cairn builders
Corrimony chambered cairn in Glenurquhart, a Clava passage grave with intact chamber, kerb and surrounding stone circle of eleven monoliths, excavated by Piggott revealing cremation and beaker…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Exceptionally preserved Late Neolithic stone-built village of eight clustered houses with stone furniture, hearths and drains. Revealed 1850 after storm, often called Scotland's answer to Pompeii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Windmill Hill
Neolithic long barrow on the Ridgeway (c. 3600 BCE) with two phases: early mortuary enclosure and later trapezoidal mound covering cruciform chamber of sarsen and oolite.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Medway Megaliths
Coldrum Long Barrow (Coldrum Stones) in Kent, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Medway Megaliths culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3150–2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
South Ronaldsay chambered cairn excavated by J. Hedges (1976), yielding 16,000 human bones, 725 bird bones including white-tailed eagle talons, and Beaker pottery — headland cliff-edge site.