🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Mine Howe
Iron Age (c.100 BCE–400 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian) / possible Roman contact
Iron Age underground sanctuary in Tankerness with 29-step stair descending 7.5 m to a corbelled chamber.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Karlevi Runestone (Karlevistenen) — Öland Burial Place
Late Viking Age (with Iron Age grave field) · Late Viking Age Öland (Yngling / Danish sphere)
Öland's Öl 1 runestone (c.1000 CE) with full skaldic stanza standing among ship setting and mound — Viking megalithic transition.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Old Scatness Broch and Iron Age Village
Iron Age to Medieval (c.400 BCE–1400 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age / Pictish / Norse
Iron Age broch village opposite Jarlshof with Pictish and Viking layers; one of Scotland's largest modern excavations.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Glauberg Celtic Oppidum
Early Iron Age (Hallstatt La Tène A) · Early Celtic (Hallstatt/Latenian) — Glauberg horizon
Early Celtic princely oppidum with 350 m avenue, statue-menhir of leaf-crowned warrior and 50 m gold-burial mound, c.450 BCE.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Uppåkra Iron Age Central Place
Late Pre-Roman Iron Age to Viking Age (c.100 BCE–1000 CE) · South Scandinavian Iron Age
Continuously occupied central place in Scania from c.100 BCE to 1000 CE, with a heathen temple building (200–950 CE, four-post staved cult house with beaker and gold foil figures), hall sequence and…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tall Jalul
EBA through Mamluk; Iron II peak · Moabite/Ammonite frontier → Persian Yehud fringe → Byzantine
Madaba Plains giant tell (18 ha) — Iron Ammonite pillared building, 9th c. destruction and Persian reoccupation, largest in Jordan’s Madaba Plains.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Ale's Stones
Late Nordic Iron Age (Vendal period) · Late Iron Age Scandinavia (proto-Viking)
67 m Iron Age stone ship of 59 boulders on Baltic ridge near Ystad with solstitial alignments, c.600 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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.
🇬🇧 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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tille Höyük
EB → MBA → LBA → Iron Age → Hellenistic (3000–100 BCE) · Euphratean → Hittite → Neo-Hittite/Assyrian
Euphrates tell (EB–Iron, Hittite-Assyrian) — 18 m island mound, Atatürk Dam salvage type-site.
🇬🇧 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.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Earthwork
Stavgard Ringfort (Gotland)
Migration Period to Vendel Period (c.400–800 CE) · Gotlandic Iron Age
Pre-Viking ringfort (fornborg) on Gotland's southeast, circular limestone wall 80–100 m diameter enclosing 0.5 ha, with inner house terraces and Iron Age ceramics.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Ban Don Ta Phet
Late Iron Age to Early Historic (c.400 BCE–200 CE) · Early Indian-influenced (Indian contact)」「West? actually Ban Don Ta Phet 400–0 BCE Indian contact
Iron Age cemetery with first South Asian beads across South China Sea (400 BCE–200 CE) — Indian bronze bowls at Kanchanaburi.
🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient village
Biskupin Iron Age Fortified Settlement
Early Iron Age (Hallstatt 750–400 BCE) / Lusatian · Lusatian (Lausitz) group
Iconic Lusatian lake-peninsula fortified settlement at Biskupin (13 rows, 102 houses, 800 residents) on Lake Biskupin islet, with 3.5 m box rampart 640 m, breakwater and gate.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Blomsholm Stone Ship
Late Iron Age (with Neolithic antecedent landscape) · Late Iron Age Bohuslän
41 m stone ship of 49 granite blocks near Strömstad, one of Scandinavia's largest, among 26 graves.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mastuma
Early Bronze III – Iron II (to Late Roman) · Amorite/Aramaean – Luwian
Idlib plain fortified tell (2500–550 BCE) with 30-season Japanese excavation sequence.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Hillfort
Grogarnsberget Hillfort
Iron Age (400 BCE–500 CE) · Gotlandic Iron Age
Massive coastal hillfort on Grogarnsberget limestone plateau (65 m) above Katthammarsvik, with 1200 m stone wall 4 m high enclosing 45 ha, double walls at north.
🇱🇦 Laos · Megalith
Plain of Jars
Iron Age 500 BCE – 500 CE (some lids to 800 CE) · Unknown Austroasiatic? Ancestors of Lao-Tai
Megalithic landscape of >90 sites with >2,100 large carved sandstone jars (1–3 m tall, up to 14 t) scattered across Xiangkhouang plateau, carved 500 BCE–500 CE, associated with mortuary rites and…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Burial field
Tuna–Badelunda Burial Field
Pre-Roman Iron Age to Viking (500 BCE–1000 CE) · South Scandinavian Iron Age
Badelunda grave field at Tuna, 90 visible monuments (mounds, stone circles, ship settings) along 500 m esker ridge, excavated by Hellman.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Yankari Rock Shelters
Late Stone Age to Iron Age (4000 BCE–1500 CE) · Nok-related / Hausa
National park shelters with 12 iron furnaces and Shira rock paintings.