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Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Triple-walled Orkney-Cromarty cairn near Kirkwall with 4.5 m passage to tripartite corbelled chamber.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Callanish Satellite Complex
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (~3000–1500 BCE; Callanish I ~2900 BCE, satellites 2000–1500 BCE) · Late Neolithic Hebridean (Grooved Ware to Beaker)
Six stone circles and ellipses arrayed within 1.5 km of the Calanais I cross-shaped megalith – primary in the database – extend the main alignment: Callanish II (stone ellipse of 7 slabs), Callanish…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Duddo Five Stones — Northumberland
Early Bronze Age (c.2000–1800 BCE) · British Early Bronze Age (Collared Urn)
Duddo Five Stones (Early Bronze Age c.2000 BCE) is a 10-m sandstone circle on a low rise 4 mi south of the Scottish border, with five soft, deeply weathered pillars up to 2.3 m tall standing in a…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Swinside Stone Circle (Sunkenkirk)
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Cumbria (Langdale axe trade area)
55-stone porphyritic circle (28.6 m) above Duddon estuary — best preserved in North-West England.
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Stanydale Temple
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Shetland Late Neolithic / Beaker
Shetland's largest Neolithic hall — 12×7 m heel-cairn hall with 3 m thick walls, c.2500 BCE.
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Star Carr Mesolithic Settlement
Early Mesolithic (~9000–8500 BCE) · Early Mesolithic British (Maglemosian)
Peat-preserved lake-shore settlement at Lake Flixton where Grahame Clark in 1949–51 uncovered a 12-m timber platform of split birch, 21 red deer antler frontlets drilled for wearing as headdresses,…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Slieve Gullion Passage Tombs
Middle Neolithic to Bronze Age · Irish Passage Tomb / Bronze Age
Summit and north passage tombs on Slieve Gullion (573 m), south cairn cruciform, Bronze Age kerb reuse, c.3500 BCE.
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Midhowe Broch
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.
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Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn — Firth, Orkney
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…
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The Hurlers Stone Circles
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Bodmin Moor Bronze Age
Triple line of three Bronze Age granite circles (33–41.5 m) on Bodmin Moor with paired outlying stones.
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Arthur's Stone, Gower (Maen Cetti)
Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Severn-Cotswold / Gower Neolithic
Gower's 40-tonne conglomerate portal dolmen on Cefn Bryn ridge — largest capstone in Wales, split 1693.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Flag Fen Bronze Age Causeway
Bronze Age to Iron Age (~1500–300 BCE; causeway 1350–1150 BCE) · British Bronze Age (Deverel-Rimbury to Post-Deverel-Rimbury)
A 1-km line of 60,000 oak posts forming a causeway and platform across Flag Fen where Francis Pryor excavated systematic votive deposits: over 300 metalwork items deliberately broken (swords bent,…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Gors Fawr Stone Circle — Mynachlog-ddu
Late Neolithic (c.3000–2500 BCE) · Welsh Late Neolithic (Preseli Groove)
Gors Fawr (Late Neolithic c.3000–2500 BCE) is a 22-m perfect circle of 16 Preseli dolerite pillars, 0.6–1.8 m high, on moorland at Mynachlog-ddu beneath the Preseli ridge that sourced Stonehenge…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Clickimin Broch
Late Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.1000 BCE–500 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age
Multi-phase broch on loch islet near Lerwick with unique blockhouse forework and wheelhouse overbuild.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Oakbank Crannog, Loch Tay
Iron Age (~800 BCE – 100 CE; Oakbank 460 BCE – 200 BCE) · Atlantic Scottish Iron Age (Caledonian)
One of 18 Iron Age timber islets in Loch Tay, Oakbank comprises a 30-m oak pile ring with horizontal alder floors still preserved 2 m deep in cold waterlogged peat.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Boscawen-Un Stone Circle
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Penwith Bronze Age
19-stone oval circle (24.4×21.9 m) with rare 2.7 m quartz-veined central standing stone and cist.
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Bryn Cader Faner
Early Bronze Age · Snowdonia Early Bronze Age
8.7 m Snowdonia crown cairn with 18 angled slate pillars and 2 m outlier — most photogenic Bronze Age tomb in Wales.
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Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement
Multi-period: Neolithic to Medieval (c.2500 BCE–1600 CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age (Broch) → Pictish → Norse
4,000-year layered settlement mound at Shetland's southern tip with broch, wheelhouses, Viking longhouse and medieval farm.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Nether Largie Standing Stones
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Bronze Age
Four-stone row (to 2.8 m) amid Kilmartin's Bronze Age linear cemetery with cup-marked cairns.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Dwarfie Stane
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Rock-cut tomb carved from single 8.6 m boulder on Hoy, the only one in Britain, c.3000 BCE.
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Taversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Maeshowe tradition
Rousay's unique two-storey cairn — lower and upper chambers stacked in 15 m round mound.
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Hjaltadans (Haltadans) Stone Circle
Early Bronze Age · Shetland Bronze Age
Fetlar's 11-stone circle (~9 m) on moorland ridge — one of Shetland's few stone circles.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Stoney Littleton Long Barrow
Early Neolithic (~3750 BCE) · Cotswold-Severn Neolithic
One of Somerset's finest Severn-Cotswold tombs extending 30 m with a distinctive trapezoidal mound and seven lateral chambers opening from a central passage.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Lanyon Quoit
Early Neolithic · Penwith Early Neolithic
Penwith portal dolmen — 5.5 m capstone (12 t) on three 1.5 m uprights, collapsed 1815 and reset lower.