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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (c.2100–1800 BCE) · Bronze Age Peak District (Food Vessel / Beaker)
Peak District embanked Bronze Age circle (10 stones in 10.5 m ring) on Stanton Moor with outlying King Stone.
🇫🇷 France · Submerged site
Legendary 5th c. (Gradlon of Cornouaille) – folklore recorded 19th c. · Breton / Cornish Celtic Christian syncretism (Dahut as pagan vs Christian)
Gradlon's sluice-gated city in Douarnenez Bay — daughter Dahut drowns it opening gates at high tide.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age · Penwith Bronze Age
19-stone graded granite circle (23.8 m) near Lamorna with two Pipers outlying stones.
🇬🇬 Guernsey · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic · Guernsey Passage Grave
Fairy folklore passage tomb on southwest coast headland, Guernsey, 8 m passage, c.3000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age · Cotswold Neolithic to Beaker
Neolithic-Bronze Age complex with King's Men circle, Whispering Knights dolmen and King Stone monolith on Cotswold ridge.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Late Neolithic Cumbrian
Largest circle in northern England — 59-stone oval with 3.6 m outlier Long Meg bearing cup-and-ring spirals.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Two-phase Neolithic long barrow near Uffington with sarsen passage grave overlain on earlier oval mound.