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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Dumfries and Galloway
Cairnderry chambered cairn: a Neolithic burial mound built around a stone chamber, dating from the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain:…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
Five stones stand today at Callanish IV, arranged in a pronounced oval measuring 13.3 by 9.5 metres on open moorland southeast of the main Callanis…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Highland
A 30-metre chamber cut into compartments by upright stone slabs: one of the largest and best-preserved Clyde cairns in south-west Scotland, reached…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Highland
At 116 metres long, this three-part cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) is the longest chambered burial monument yet recorded…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Pembrokeshire
A burial monument five thousand years old, half a mile west of Abercastle, known also as Samson's Stone and the Longhouse.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Cork
One hillside carries three separate kinds of megalithic monument together, and its carved stone was carried off to a city museum decades after bein…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Cork
Carrigaphooca preserves the diminished remains of a County Cork stone circle, where three stones still mark a small National Monument beside a cast…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Sligo
One of Ireland's largest Neolithic, the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC, tomb clusters, with 30 surviving monuments forming the centre of a…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Galway
A wedge tomb: a Neolithic tomb whose chamber narrows and drops towards the back: raised in the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC, and survivi…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cornwall
Carwynnen Quoit is a Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) portal dolmen whose ten-ton capstone was re-erected after almost half…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Orkney Islands
An unresolved Shapinsay structure that may be a burial mound or an underground passage connected with settlement, challenging easy readings of how…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
North Yorkshire
A near-intact Neolithic: the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC: henge, a circular enclosure ringed by a bank with its ditch set within, that…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Cork
At over 13 metres long, it is the largest stone row: in both length and height: among more than 80 known examples across south-west Ireland.
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cumbria
An internal rectangle of ten stones sits inside the ring, a feature almost unknown among British stone circles and never satisfactorily explained.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
Along the bank of a burn on Shetland Mainland, the rock face at Catpund still carries the scars of centuries of quarrying, row upon row of hollows…
Tomb or burial place · Medieval
Blaenau Gwent
Cefn Golau Cholera Cemetery is the only surviving cholera cemetery in South Wales, preserving the human cost of three nineteenth-century epidemics…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Greater Manchester
Cheetham Close is a damaged Early Bronze Age ritual landscape near Greater Manchester, where a broken stone circle, ring cairn (a mound of piled st…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Kent
Chestnuts Long Barrow is a ruined Medway Megalith whose chamber held collective Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) burials, po…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
On the west side of Lewis, in the village of Ballantrushal, a single grey pillar of stone rises 5.8 metres out of the machair. Clach an Trushal is…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Dorset
Clandon Barrow is a major burial monument dating the period from about 2500 to 800 BC whose 1882 excavation produced the Clandon Lozenge, a gold ob…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Highland
A burial mound of piled stones at Balnuaran of Clava, whose kerb stones were sorted by colour before they were laid.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Highland
These three damaged circles preserve unusually detailed evidence for how field clearance, railway construction and housing altered an interconnecte…
Tomb or burial place · Medieval
Pembrokeshire
A six-metre capstone resting on a single upright near St Davids Head, its chamber of the first farming age collapsed.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Kent
Coldrum Long Barrow is the best-preserved Medway Megalith, a ruined Early Neolithic tomb-shrine whose chamber held at least 17 people and still anc…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Angus
By 1853, elderly locals in Glen Esk still recalled the circle looking fuller, before stone-robbing thinned it: a rare glimpse of a monument's decli…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Wiltshire
A vanished henge: a prehistoric earthwork of bank and ditch enclosing a circular space, with the ditch inside the bank: whose ditch enclosed a timb…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Cork
A Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) stone pair near Durrus that was removed and then accurately reinstated after local protest, pre…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Highland
One of the best-preserved Clava cairns in the Highlands, its passage still roofed by the original cup-marked capstone and its burial chamber found…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Antrim
Despite its name, this is not a dolmen at all but the remains of a three-chambered passage tomb, its huge capstone still resting on seven upright s…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Aberdeenshire
Each of its eight cairns is fenced by its own ring of kerbstones and holds cremated remains, making the circle a burial ground built inside a ring…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Sligo
One of Sligo's Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain) court cairns, its two burial galleries still stand intact even thoug…
Tomb or burial place · Iron Age
East Riding of Yorkshire
More than seventy barrows and 114 recorded skeletons make this one of the largest known Arras Culture cemeteries, including one of Yorkshire's rare…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Wiltshire
The last survivor of at least seven stone circles once raised south of Swindon, its five buried sarsens are the only physical evidence left for a l…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
West Sussex
No records survive from the early excavations, so nobody knows exactly when these barrows were built: or what was taken out of them.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
West Sussex
The line of five is aligned on sunset at midsummer. Local folklore has the Devil hopping along them until Thor threw a stone at him.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Northumberland
Devil’s Lapful is one of the few surviving long cairns in Northumberland, preserving a large Stone Age communal burial monument within Kielder Forest.
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Oxfordshire
A Late Neolithic henge (a prehistoric (from the era before writing arrived in these islands) earthwork (a bank, ditch or mound shaped from soil rat…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Isle of Anglesey
Din Dryfol preserves the visible core of a Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) passage grave (a Neolithic tomb reached by…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Derbyshire
A small ring of six stones on Stanton Moor doubled, over generations, into a burial ground holding cremated adults and children alongside bronze fr…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Mayo
A Neolithic tomb wearing the name of a seventh-century murder story: four student-monks executed for killing their own bishop, remembered forever i…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Antrim
Behind its roofless chamber lies a passage found nowhere else in Ireland's 400 court tombs: a corridor built specifically for cremating the dead.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Meath
An 1847 excavation left Dowth's mound scarred, but its passage tombs retain chambers, late Stone Age rock art and a winter-solstice beam of sunlight.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Cork
A compact ring of seventeen stones aligned on the midwinter sunset, where excavation recovered the cremated remains of an adolescent from the centre.
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Somerset
One of only about 80 henges in England: an earthwork, a bank and ditch dug and heaped from the ground itself, whose ditch lies inside its bank, so…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Dumfries and Galloway
Of the three stones that once formed the alignment at Drumtroddan, only one still stands. The others lie fallen on the ground, set in a line runnin…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Northumberland
Duddo Five Stones is a weathered Northumberland stone circle whose surviving pink sandstone pillars and recovered sockets reveal a larger original…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
North Yorkshire
Beneath the mound lie five distinct burial phases: a shaft grave, infant burials, fifty-three cremations: one of the most complex Neolithic (the la…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cornwall
Duloe stone circle is an unusual oval of eight white quartzite stones, moved and partly damaged in 1861 but still defining a distinctive Cornish pr…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Aberdeenshire
One of more than seventy recumbent stone circles once raised across lowland Aberdeenshire, its three surviving stones stand at the foot of a hillto…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Aberdeenshire
One of Scotland's best-preserved recumbent stone circles, and the only one where every stone still stands exactly where its Bronze Age (roughly 250…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Dumfries and Galloway
Easthill's ring is short of a stone. Eight survive in an oval roughly three and three-quarter miles south-west of Dumfries, and a ninth is thought…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cumbria
One of only five true Cumbrian circles, its wide open ring on Elva Hill may once have tracked the midwinter sunset over the fells to the southwest.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Somerset
An oval burial mound at Nempnett Thrubwell, where a long mound still covers the chamber built for the dead.
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Wiltshire
Reduced to a single leaning sarsen in a hedge, it is the ghost of a twelve-stone ring whose earthfast neighbours built Avebury itself.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Cork
Farranahineeny Stone Row is a protected County Cork monument east of the Shehy Mountains, whose uncertain Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when met…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Wiltshire
One of at least seven prehistoric circles reported south of Swindon, and the only one confirmed as a true double ring: destroyed twice over, by nin…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Dorset
The Five Marys preserves a linear cemetery of burial mounds dating the period from about 2500 to 800 BC above Chaldon Herring, with early excavatio…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Derbyshire
Excavations here recovered the remains of at least twelve Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) people, one of the fuller a…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Hampshire
Its disc barrow, a prehistoric: a period predating the written record in Britain: burial mound, ringing two burial mounds inside a single bank, has…
Fortified place · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
A stone wall over four kilometres long once ran the full north-south length of Fetlar, splitting the Shetland island into two almost equal halves.…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cumbria
Some forty fallen pink granite stones still trace a full oval on the fellside, one of the largest stone circles in Cumbria despite two centuries of…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Surrey
Ten flagstones quarried near Thurso carry 2,000 years of quotation across a park shaped by Capability Brown: a millennium monument standing inside…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Waterford
Its capstone spans over four metres across twin portal stones taller than a person: one of the finest surviving portal tombs in the region.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Down
One of Ireland's largest Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) henges, raised centuries before the pyramids, hiding a small…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Derbyshire
Two burial monuments share one mound: a late Stone Age oval mound, dating roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain, and a later round mound from roughly 250…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Dumfries and Galloway
Twenty-six standing stones curve in a crescent above the bank of the White Esk near Eskdalemuir, in Dumfries and Galloway. The gap in the ring is n…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Cork
Glantane East brings a wedge tomb: a Neolithic tomb whose chamber narrows and drops towards the back, from the late Stone Age roughly 4000–2500 BC…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Argyll and Bute
A jet necklace recovered from one of its two Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) stone cists is a rare surviving trace of the personal ornaments burie…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Dumfries and Galloway
At the centre of an oval ring of 29 stones, two miles east of Creetown in Dumfries and Galloway, a single tall pillar stands upright. This arrangem…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Limerick
A carving invisible for millennia was found on one of its stones only in 2022: proof this Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) circle…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Inverclyde
A weathered mica-schist pillar above a shopping street carries a rare double legacy: a supposed Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools f…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Cavan
A Neolithic portal tomb: a tomb of upright stones carrying a single great capstone from the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain: in Burre…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
Seven thin standing stones rise from a ridge overlooking Loch Roag, on the western side of Lewis, set out in an ellipse measuring 21.6 by 18.9 metr…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
Two concentric ellipses of stone stand on the moor above Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis, forming Callanish III: Gaelic name Cnoc Fillibhir Bheag. T…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
Four standing stones rise in a semicircle along a cliff edge on the southern side of Great Bernera, looking out over the narrow strait that separat…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
North Ayrshire
Carn Ban is one of south-west Scotland’s best-known Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) Clyde cairns, preserving…
Tomb or burial place · Medieval
County Tyrone
Carncorran Glebe preserves the Giant’s Grave, a stone burial chamber from before written records whose unusually mismatched three-metre uprights cr…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Cork
Carraig á Mhaistin is a megalithic tomb at Cork Harbour’s tidal edge, where water, seaweed and a nearby cairn (a mound of piled stones, often cover…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Leitrim
Two very different Neolithic tombs stand within sight of each other here: a long wedge-shaped gallery grave known as the Giant's Grave, and a dolme…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Tyrone
Carrigans is an 859-acre County Tyrone townland where a Scheduled burial monument with an open court before its chambers gives deep archaeological…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
City of Edinburgh
The Cat Stane combines a Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) standing stone with a fifth- or sixth-century Latin funerary in…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cornwall
A granite hill where Neolithic tombs: from the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain: and Bronze Age remains: roughly 2500–800 BC: share…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cornwall
A remarkably intact Neolithic chamber tomb: from the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC: whose capstone still stands in its original position…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Cork
A protected Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) pair of standing stones near Drimoleague, representing a monument type…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Donegal
Cloghanmore is an unusually arranged Donegal court tomb: a tomb from before any written account of Britain existed with an unroofed court before it…
Fortified place · Prehistoric
Cornwall
Tintagel parish's highest point, where an unexcavated Bronze Age barrow: roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread, and a prehistoric burial mo…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Londonderry
A stone circle and stone row stand together here, close enough to be read as one deliberate arrangement rather than two separate monuments.
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cornwall
Sixteen fallen stones and a single possible stump, all so overgrown that the circle ranks among the harder monuments to locate on Bodmin Moor, make…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Durham
A Weardale cairnfield where Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) burial practice and evidence of early field clearance o…
Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Kent
Darenth Country Park protects a Saxon burial ground within a former hospital landscape, combining nationally important archaeology with chalk-grass…
Tomb or burial place · Medieval
County Tyrone
Doocrock is a 426-acre County Tyrone townland where a Scheduled court tomb gives prehistoric depth to a landscape named “Black Hill.”
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Kerry
Local tradition names this Bronze Age stone row the grave of Scéine, wife of the Milesian leader Amergin mac Míled: tying a modest monument to Irel…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cornwall
A closely spaced pair of ruined Bodmin Moor stone circles, preserving an unusual double-monument arrangement beside other prehistoric (before any w…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cornwall
One of Cornwall's largest stone circles, set in a landscape of prehistoric (from the era before writing arrived in these islands) settlement and la…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
shetland-islands
Haaf fishermen lit their böds with oil lamps made from whelk shells. One from here is in the Shetland Museum, collected by a man who argued about w…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Cavan
Finn McCools Fingers is a five-stone row on Shantemon mountain whose local name preserves a direct link between a physical monument and Fionn mac C…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cambridgeshire
A wooded chalk knoll conceals a substantially intact Bronze Age: roughly 2500–800 BC: burial mound, sited to loom over the ancient Icknield Way below.
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cornwall
Goodaver's reconstructed ring remains a major Bodmin Moor stone circle, where its altered standing stones are themselves part of the record of twen…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
County Down
A granite capstone weighing many tons has slipped from its original level seat, tilting a late Stone Age burial chamber into the dramatic lean visi…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
North Ayrshire
The Grannie Stone is an enduring Irvine river landmark whose uncertain origin: glacial erratic or last stone-circle survivor: reveals how folklore,…
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