Sacred place · Prehistoric
Grey Croft stone circle
Cumbria
Ten upright stones stand today only because a 1949 dig found and re-set nine of them after a farmer toppled and buried the circle in 1820.
- Near Keswick
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Grubstones
West Yorkshire
Someone built an orgone accumulator into it in the twentieth century: a mound meant to collect a life force that does not exist.
- Near Ilkley
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Haltadans
Shetland Islands
Thirty-eight stones once ringed this patch of ground on Fetlar, Shetland; twenty-two of them still stand fixed in the soil, describing a circle ele…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Hazleton long barrows
Gloucestershire
Genetic analysis of its dead reconstructed one of the earliest known family trees from a population living before written records reached Britain,…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Heaning Wood Bone Cave
Cumbria
A tiny girl buried here roughly 11,000 years ago is among the oldest human burials yet identified in northern England, pushing the region's story b…
- Near Kendal
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Heapstown Cairn
County Sligo
At roughly 60 metres across, Heapstown ranks among Ireland's largest cairns, yet its untouched south-eastern flank may still conceal a passage tomb…
- Near Sligo
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Heart of Neolithic Orkney
Orkney Islands
The Orkney World Heritage group is made up of monuments from the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC, whose remains illuminate the islands’ cha…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Heath Wood barrow cemetery
Derbyshire
Fifty-nine mounds in a Derbyshire wood mark the only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in the British Isles, raised by the Viking Great Army it…
- Near Bakewell
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Heelstone Ditch
Wiltshire
A narrow, steep-sided trench encircling the Heel Stone whose own relationship to that famous sarsen is still unresolved: did the ditch follow the s…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Hell Stone
Dorset
Hell Stone is a Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) chambered tomb whose visible arrangement is shaped as much by…
- Near Portesham
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Henblas Burial Chamber
Isle of Anglesey
Henblas Burial Chamber is a Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) dolmen whose unusually massive quartz-rich uprights and displac…
- Near Llangristiolus
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Heysham rock-cut tombs
Lancashire
Eight graves cut straight into the bedrock, some shaped to the human body and fitted with sockets for stone or wooden crosses: a form of burial fou…
- Near Lancaster
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Hill of Fiddes stone circle
Aberdeenshire
Reduced from a full stone circle to two boundary stones in a field wall, the site nonetheless carries the same legal protection as much larger monu…
- Near Ellon
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Hoarstones
Shropshire
A stone circle in the parish of Chirbury with Brompton, known also as Hoar Stone Circle.
- Near Shelve
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Hob Hurst's House
Derbyshire
Almost every burial mound in Britain from the Bronze Age, the period from about 2500 to 800 BC, is round; this one on Beeley Moor is rectangular, a…
- Near Bakewell
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Holm of Papa Westray Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
A chambered cairn twenty metres long: a burial tomb of stone-built compartments under a mound: on an uninhabited islet of twenty-one hectares off P…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Hordron Edge stone circle
Derbyshire
Only ten of a ring some believe once held 26 stones survive above Ladybower reservoir: three of them lying hidden and unnoticed until 1992.
- Near Bakewell
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Huntersquoy chambered cairn
Orkney Islands
An exceptionally rare two-storey tomb, its opposed entrances and flooded lower chamber reveal two burial spaces stacked within one small Eday mound.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Inschfield stone circle
Aberdeenshire
Only three stones survive from a ring that once spanned some 27 metres: a fragment of Aberdeenshire's rare recumbent stone circle tradition, now le…
- Near Insch
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Jacket's Field Long Barrow
Kent
Jacket’s Field is a scheduled Early Neolithic long barrow, a prehistoric: a period predating the written record in Britain: burial mound, part of K…
- Near Boughton Aluph
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Julliberrie's Grave
Kent
Julliberrie’s Grave is Kent’s excavated Stour long barrow, a prehistoric: a period before written records reached Britain: burial mound, preserving…
- Near Chilham
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Kealkill stone circle
County Cork
Its axial stone pointed the wrong way for decades, forcing archaeologists to reverse their own reading of which end of the ring actually mattered.
- Near Kealkill
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Killaclohane Portal Tomb
County Kerry
A 13.5-tonne capstone raised on two portal stones nearly 6,000 years ago, holding cremation burials that span the Neolithic (the first farming age,…
- Near Dingle
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Killin Stone Circle
Stirling
Six schist slabs in a flattened ring by Loch Tay, with three cupmarks ground into the top of the northernmost.
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Medieval
King's Quoit
Pembrokeshire
A late Stone Age burial chamber on high ground above Manorbier Bay, five miles east of Pembroke.
- Near Manorbier
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
King's Standing Bowl Barrow
West Midlands
A prehistoric: from before written records reached Britain: burial mound beside a Roman road that later lent its name to a Civil War tradition and…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Kingston Russell Stone Circle
Dorset
Kingston Russell is Dorset’s largest surviving stone circle, an unexcavated Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) monument whose fallen…
- Near Abbotsbury
- 1.6 km from car park
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Kirkmadrine Church and Burial-ground
Dumfries and Galloway
Kirkmadrine preserves three sixth-century Latin memorials naming early Christian priests, then traces continued devotion through later slabs and a…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Kirkton of Bourtie stone circle
Aberdeenshire
Its broken recumbent stone is the longest known of its kind in Scotland: the sole survivor of what were once three stone circles in this parish.
- Near Inverurie
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Kit's Coty House
Kent
Kit’s Coty House preserves an Early Neolithic sarsen chamber near Aylesford, making a conspicuous fragment of Medway’s prehistoric: the time before…
- Near Aylesford
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Knap of Howar
Orkney Islands
A farmstead of the first farming age on Papa Westray that may be the oldest standing house in northern Europe.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Knock of Alves
Moray
Six weathered boulders share a wooded hill with a much larger, older stronghold, one refortified deep into the Pictish (of the Picts, the people of…
- Near Elgin
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Knockeen Portal Tomb
County Waterford
The largest dolmen in County Waterford, its keyhole entrance and possible solstice alignment with Sugarloaf hill hint at ritual as much as burial.
- Near Waterford
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Knockmany Passage Tomb
County Tyrone
Three of its thirteen buried sandstone slabs carry rare megalithic art: concentric circles, spirals and zigzags: placing this hilltop grave in the…
- Near Omagh
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Knowe of Swandro
Orkney Islands
Knowe of Swandro is a coastal archaeological site on Rousay, where a burial tomb, settlement remains and Viking-age buildings are being eroded by t…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Knowe of Yarso chambered cairn
Orkney Islands
Knowe of Yarso preserves a burial mound built around a stone chamber, bringing together material remains and documented history that illuminate Ork…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Knowes of Trotty
Orkney Islands
An unusually rich Bronze Age cemetery where imported gold and amber were buried with cremated people, evidence that Orkney elites reached far beyon…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Knowth
County Meath
One mound was a tomb, a Bronze Age ritual ground, a hill fort, a royal capital, a Norman motte and a Cistercian farm in turn: each layer built over…
- Near Drogheda
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Labbacallee wedge tomb
County Cork
Labbacallee is Ireland’s largest wedge tomb, a c.2300 BC burial monument whose massive stones, excavated remains and later folklore show how one pl…
- Near Mallow
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Lang Stane of Hilton
Aberdeen City
A granite monolith nearly three metres tall standing in Hilton, one of several Aberdeen stones sharing the name Lang Stane: Scots for long stone.
- Near Aberdeen
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Lang Stane, Aberdeen
Aberdeen City
A keel-shaped base ties this Union Street stone to Aberdeenshire's recumbent circles: raised around 3000 BC, before writing reached Britain: long b…
- Near Aberdeen
- Step-free
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Lanyon Quoit
Cornwall
A great Cornish dolmen transformed by an 1815 storm collapse, then rebuilt by local effort into the three-legged monument seen today.
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Legananny
County Down
Its name may preserve the memory of the goddess Áine, and its granite frame has stood on this Down mountainside since long before Ireland had a wri…
- Near Dromara
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Lia Fáil
County Meath
A modest standing stone credited in tradition with the power to make or unmake the High Kings of Ireland, and claimed by rival legends as the very…
- Near Drogheda
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Liddle Burnt Mound
Orkney Islands
An excavated cooking complex where a huge watertight tank, heated stones and animal bones make an otherwise disputed type of Bronze Age site unusua…
- Easy path
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Links of Noltland
Orkney Islands
Links of Noltland is a settlement with late Stone Age and early Bronze Age, roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread, dwellings, protected by…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Linton Chapel
Orkney Islands
An enigmatic small coastal chapel whose proximity to the disputed Castle Bloody offers a rare glimpse of medieval worship beside a much older Shapi…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Lochmaben Stone
Dumfries and Galloway
On the shore of the Solway Firth, near where the Kirtle Water empties into the estuary, a single weathered granite boulder stands roughly 7 feet ta…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Long Burgh Long Barrow
East Sussex
A 180-foot earthen mound raised by Sussex's first farming communities, it belongs to a distinct chalk-downland style of long burial mound found now…
- Near Alfriston
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Long Low, Wetton
Staffordshire
Two cairns joined by a 200-metre bank of upright limestone slabs: a form found nowhere else in England, and still not understood.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Long Meg and Her Daughters
Cumbria
England's third-widest stone circle, its outlying monolith carved with cup-and-ring art that echoes Newgrange and stands aligned on the midwinter s…
- Near Penrith
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Lough Scur
County Leitrim
A doubtful megalithic tomb sits beside a lake ringed with Bronze Age crannogs, a 13th-century castle, and a 17th-century island jail: an unusually…
- Near Manorhamilton
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Loupin Stanes
Dumfries and Galloway
A low platform was built up out of the ground beside Eskdalemuir before the twelve stones of the Loupin Stanes were set in an oval on top of it, at…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Lugbury Long Barrow
Wiltshire
A false doorway: a capstone leaning on two uprights, leading nowhere. The real chambers held twenty-six people.
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Lyneham Longbarrow
Oxfordshire
A long burial mound beside the A361, with a standing stone 1.8 metres high at its end.
- Near Lyneham
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Machrie Moor Stone Circles
North Ayrshire
Machrie Moor gathers stone circles, burials and earlier timber settings into an exceptional prehistoric (before any written account of Britain exis…
- Near Machrie
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Magdalen Hill Down
Hampshire
A chalk hillside east of Winchester carries three unconnected pasts in one place: a Bronze Age burial line, a medieval leper hospital turned First…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Maiden's Bower
County Durham
A prehistoric burial mound: from from the era before writing arrived in these islands: became a medieval battle standard: Durham's monks raised St…
- Near Durham
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Meehambee Dolmen
County Roscommon
Its rear support gave way sometime after the medieval period, tipping a 24-tonne capstone into the steep tilt that still defines this unexcavated N…
- Near Boyle
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Memsie Cairn
Aberdeenshire
The sole survivor of a cemetery of three great Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) cairns, its lost neighbours quarried…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Merryton Low
Staffordshire
A hill a few miles east of Leek, in the civil parish of Fawfieldhead.
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Mid Gleniron
Dumfries and Galloway
Six burial cairns stand grouped together in the countryside of Dumfries and Galloway, two of them holding a particular importance for archaeologist…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Mine Howe
Orkney Islands
Twenty-nine descending steps and fine stonework lead into an Iron Age chamber whose purpose remains unknown, making Mine Howe as compelling for its…
- Near Kirkwall
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Mitchell's Fold
Shropshire
Mitchell’s Fold is a stone circle whose surviving dolerite pillars, nearby ancient monuments and disputed legends preserve a layered ritual landsca…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Moel Tŷ Uchaf
Denbighshire
Moel Tŷ Uchaf is a compact Welsh upland monument whose 41-stone ring and central cist, a stone-lined box grave, preserve the ambiguous boundary bet…
- Near Denbigh
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Monknewtown
county-meath
A Neolithic enclosure on the northern rim of Brú na Bóinne whose bank holds thirty metres of standing water: a pond, deliberately made, at the edge…
- Near Drogheda
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Montem Mound
Berkshire
A 2017 dig proved the mound is roughly 1,500 years old, making it a contemporary of Sutton Hoo and finally settling a century-old dispute over whet…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Mor Stein
Orkney Islands
An isolated three-metre standing stone whose uncarved bulk records the considerable communal labour of quarrying, moving and raising a monument who…
- Near Shapinsay
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Mount Pleasant henge
Dorset
Mount Pleasant henge, a bank-and-ditch enclosure around a circular space, is a major late Stone Age Dorset monument whose vast earthwork, a bank-an…
- Near Dorchester
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Mount Venus
County Dublin
A capstone weighing some 44 tons has slipped from its portal stones and now leans at an angle, described by one antiquarian (an early collector-sch…
- Near Edmondstown
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Mulfra Quoit
Cornwall
Mulfra Quoit is a Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) chamber tomb on Mulfra Hill whose slipped five-ton capstone…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Mullyash Kerbed Cairn
County Monaghan
A Neolithic hilltop cairn: a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial, from the first farming age roughly 4000–2500 BC: whose summit once com…
- Near Monaghan
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Mutiny Stones
Scottish Borders
A Neolithic long cairn named after a devil's mittenful of stones: and reduced to less than half its remembered height by shepherds building walls.
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ness of Brodgar
Orkney Islands
Ness of Brodgar preserves an archaeological site between the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness.
- Near Stenness
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Ness of Burgi fort
Shetland Islands
A narrow finger of land reaches south from Scat Ness into the sea at the southern extremity of Shetland Mainland, and near its end, on a rocky spur…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Nether Largie Mid Cairn
Argyll and Bute
Two burial cists inside still carry carved cup marks and a rare axehead symbol, evidence that survived even after most of the cairn (a mound of pil…
- Near Kilmartin
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Nether Largie North Cairn
Argyll and Bute
The mound standing here today is not undisturbed ancient masonry: it is a 1930 reconstruction, a fact that changes what a visitor is actually looki…
- Near Kilmartin
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Grey Wethers
Devon
Grey Wethers is an unusually well-defined pair of prehistoric (predating the written record in Britain) stone circles on Dartmoor, with surviving l…
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Hampton Down Stone Circle
Dorset
Hampton Down’s reconstructed stone circle offers a rare case study in how excavation corrected centuries of disturbance and revealed a much smaller…
- Near Portesham
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Heel Stone
Wiltshire
A single sarsen block leaning nearly 27 degrees from vertical, with as much of its bulk buried below ground as most people ever see standing above it.
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Innisidgen
Cornwall
Innisidgen preserves two Bronze Age entrance graves: roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread: on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, where well-prese…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Killynaght
County Tyrone
Killynaght pairs a named Tyrone townland with the Rocking Stone, a collapsed stone burial chamber protected as a Scheduled Historic Monument.
- Near Omagh
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kilmartin Glen
Argyll and Bute
Within a six-mile radius of the village of Kilmartin, in Argyll north of Knapdale, stand more than 800 ancient monuments, of which some 150 date fr…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Kilmogue Portal Tomb
County Kilkenny
Kilmogue Portal Tomb is a National Monument whose granite-and-quartz structure, solstice-facing entrance and layered Irish name make a compact Neol…
- Near Mullinavat
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Kiltiernan Tomb
County Dublin
A chamber sealed by a small door stone wedged between two entrance pillars, roofed by a single capstone estimated at around forty tonnes.
- Near Kiltiernan
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Kinniside Stone Circle
Cumbria
A prehistoric circle pulled down for farm gate-posts and pieced back together in 1925: its eleven stones now held not by original earth but by conc…
- Near Egremont
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Knock Iveagh
County Down
Knock Iveagh is a County Down hill whose summit cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial), inauguration tradition, and surrounding s…
- Near Newry
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Sacred place · Medieval
Knocklayd
Antrim
Knocklayd is a prominent Antrim Hills summit whose quartz passage tomb, surrounding standing stones and extraordinary townland boundary make it bot…
- Near Ballycastle
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Knocknakilla
County Cork
A recumbent stone circle and radial cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) paired with a leaning 3.7-metre portal stone, aligned…
- Near Millstreet
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Knowlton Circles
Dorset
One of Dorset's greatest ceremonial landscapes, prehistoric (from the era before writing arrived in these islands), where Stone Age henges and a de…
- Near Knowlton
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Leaze stone circle
Cornwall
Leaze stone circle is a fragmentary Bodmin Moor ring whose surviving granite stones, lost elements and nearby prehistoric (predating the written re…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Legananny Dolmen
County Down
Legananny Dolmen is a State Care Neolithic portal tomb, a tomb of upright stones carrying a single great capstone, whose tall tripod supports a cap…
- Near Dromara
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Medieval
Letterbrat
County Tyrone
Letterbrat combines a Tyrone townland’s portal tomb, a Stone Age tomb of upright stones carrying a single great capstone, with a working quarry exp…
- Near Omagh
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Listoghil
County Sligo
The central 34-metre cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) at Carrowmore, built around 3500 BC and restored after excavation, wi…
- Near Sligo
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Little Meg
Cumbria
One surviving boulder still carries a crisply cut spiral and rings, rare Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) rock art p…
- Near Penrith
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Roman
Lullingstone Country Park
Kent
Few country parks combine a Domesday deer-park inheritance, Roman pottery, Second World War decoy works, and veteran trees supporting nationally ra…
- Near Lullingstone
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Maelmin Henge
Northumberland
Maelmin Henge is a modern, research-based reconstruction that makes the Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) and Early Bronze Ag…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Margery Hill
South Yorkshire
A moorland summit whose stone cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) turned out, on dating, to be a deliberately built Bronze Age…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Miosgán Meadhbha
County Sligo
A protected, 55-metre-wide cairn, a mound of piled stones often covering a burial, on Knocknarea, likely concealing a passage tomb from the Neolith…
- Near Sligo
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Moss Farm Road Stone Circle
North Ayrshire
Moss Farm Road preserves a damaged Bronze Age: the period from about 2500 to 800 BC: stone-mound-and-circle monument within Arran’s wider Machrie M…
- Near Machrie
- Some walking
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