🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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.
🇬🇧 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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Trethevy Quoit
Early Neolithic · East Cornwall Early Neolithic
East Cornwall's tallest quoit — 2.4 m uprights supporting capstone 3 m high with internal divider and rear window.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Callanish III (Cnoc Fillibhir Bheag)
Late Neolithic · Hebridean Late Neolithic
Concentric double circle (13.7 m outer) with inner 4-stone ring and cairn, 500 m SE of Callanish I.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Sweet Track
Early Neolithic (~3807 BCE) · British Early Neolithic
The oldest engineered timber trackway in northern Europe, a 1.8-km raised walkway of oak planks pegged to transverse ash rails, dendro-dated to construction in the winter–spring of 3807 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
La Hougue Bie
Middle Neolithic (~4000–3500 BCE; medieval chapel atop) · Armorican / Channel Neolithic (Norman Neolithic)
Jersey's paramount Neolithic monument crowns a 12-m artificial mound containing a cruciform passage grave with a 12-m roofed chamber aligned so equinox sunrise illuminates the rear cell.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Stonehenge Cursus
Early Neolithic 3800–3600 BCE · Early Neolithic Britons
2.7-km Neolithic processional enclosure predating Stonehenge by 500 years.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Merry Maidens Stone Circle
Early Bronze Age · Penwith Bronze Age
19-stone graded granite circle (23.8 m) near Lamorna with two Pipers outlying stones.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Holm of Papa Westray North Cairn
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
Unstan Chambered Cairn
Early Neolithic · Unstan Ware Neolithic
Eponymous stalled cairn at Stenness — 8.4 m five-compartment chamber where Unstan Ware was first identified.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Creswell Crags
Palaeolithic–Mesolithic (50000–6000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Creswell Crags in Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire, Creswell, United Kingdom is a major Palaeolithic to Holocene cave and fissure system renowned for stratified deposits spanning over 40,000 years.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Chûn Quoit
Early Neolithic · Penwith Early Neolithic
Hilltop Penwith quoit — intact 4-post portal dolmen with mushroom capstone above Chûn Castle, most complete in Cornwall.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Audleystown Court Tomb
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Dual court tomb above Strangford Lough narrows, two opposed galleries, eight chambers, 34 burials, c.3900 BCE.