Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Newgrange
County Meath
Raised five hundred years before Stonehenge took its familiar form, its inner chamber still catches the exact solstice sunrise its Neolithic (the f…
- Near Drogheda
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Nine Ladies
Derbyshire
Ten weathered stones pretending to be nine, watched over by a leaning outlier scratched with a conman's graffiti, and defended for a decade by a pr…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Nine Stones Close
Derbyshire
Four surviving stones on Harthill Moor retain two shallow cup marks, while the lost uprights explain the traditional name Nine Stones Close.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Nine Stones, Altarnun
Cornwall
Nine Stones is Bodmin Moor’s smallest stone circle, restored from near collapse in 1889 and retaining an unusual central granite post.
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Nine Stones, Winterbourne Abbas
Dorset
The Nine Stones is a small Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) Dorset circle whose unusual pair of tall stones, long an…
- Near Winterbourne Abbas
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ninestane Rig
Scottish Borders
Legend says the lord of Hermitage Castle was boiled alive here in 1320, in a cauldron slung between the two big stones.
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Normanton Down Barrows
Wiltshire
One grave here held a gold lozenge, a bronze dagger and a mace among the richest Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) bu…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
North Mains
Perth and Kinross
Two pits and a cremation were placed here before the henge was built: a prehistoric earthwork of bank and ditch enclosing a circular space, with th…
- Near Crieff
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Notgrove Long Barrow
Gloucestershire
A chambered long barrow, a communal burial mound, whose stone passage and side chambers stood open to the sky for millennia before being sealed shu…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Nympsfield Long Barrow
Gloucestershire
Excavators found red ochre in this barrow, a burial mound of heaped earth, prehistoric in date: possibly face-paint to make the dead look alive: an…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery
Dorset
Oakley Down is a scheduled Cranborne Chase cemetery whose thirty Bronze Age, the period from about 2500 to 800 BC, mounds and early excavated buria…
- Near Sixpenny Handley
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Orphir Round Church
Orkney Islands
Orphir Round Church preserves the remains of a circular medieval church dedicated to Saint Nicholas.
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Pant-y-Saer Burial Chamber
Isle of Anglesey
Pant-y-Saer is a partially collapsed Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) chamber tomb where excavation revealed repeated…
- Near Benllech
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Parc Cwm long cairn
Swansea
In 1869 workmen digging for road stone on the Gower Peninsula broke into a mound of limestone rubble and found it packed with broken human bone. Wh…
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Tomb or burial place · Medieval
Perthi-Duon Burial Chamber
Isle of Anglesey
Perthi-Duon is an enigmatic collapsed Anglesey stone monument whose possible Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) tomb status, e…
- Near Brynsiencyn
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Pettigarths Field Cairns
Shetland Islands
On a low rise in the parish of Nesting in north-east Whalsay, two burial monuments stand roughly 140 metres north-west of the settlement mound at B…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Pict's Knowe
Dumfries and Galloway
A small sandy bank rises out of the peat-covered valley of the Crooks Pow stream, four kilometres south-west of Dumfries, and it is on this slight…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Pikestones
Lancashire
Pikestones is a robbed Neolithic chambered cairn, a Stone Age burial mound built around a stone chamber, on Anglezarke Moor, one of only two chambe…
- Near Anglezarke
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Piper's Stones
County Wicklow
Only five of the granite boulders still stand exactly where Bronze Age hands set them roughly three thousand years ago: the rest were disturbed by…
- Near Wicklow
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Pobull Fhinn
Outer Hebrides
At least two dozen stones stand in an oval on the south side of Ben Langass on North Uist, eight of them on the northern arc and sixteen on the sou…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Roman
Ponton Heath Barrow Cemetery
Lincolnshire
At least eleven Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) burial mounds once stood on this ridge; five were bulldozed for iro…
- Near Great Ponton
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Porlock Stone Circle
Somerset
Thirteen stones now, ten in 2009, forty-three when the circle went up in the era before writing arrived in these islands - and some of what stands…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Poulnabrone dolmen
County Clare
Poulnabrone is a Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain) portal tomb (a Neolithic tomb of upright stones carrying a single…
- Near Ballyvaughan
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Presaddfed Burial Chamber
Isle of Anglesey
Two Neolithic tombs stand so close together that antiquarians still cannot agree whether they were ever one chamber beneath a single mound.
- Near Bangor
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Preston Candover Long Barrow
Hampshire
One of only two known unchambered long barrows on the North Downs, its true shape was masked for decades by farming damage and a mistaken Ordnance…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Priddy Circles
Somerset
Four circular bank-and-ditch enclosures near Priddy in the Mendips, protected by law.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Priddy Nine Barrows and Ashen Hill Barrow Cemeteries
Somerset
Two Bronze Age barrow cemeteries on the two highest ridges in the district: scheduled in 1933, possibly to stop local schools digging them.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Proleek Dolmen
County Louth
A single capstone weighing some 40 tonnes has balanced on two portal stones for roughly five thousand years, making it one of the heaviest dolmen c…
- Near Dundalk
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Punds Water
Shetland Islands
Above the peat near Mangaster, in Northmavine on Shetland's Mainland, a low mound of large boulders rises about 1.5 metres from the surrounding gro…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Q and R Holes
Wiltshire
The earliest known stone structure at Stonehenge, predating the visible Sarsen Circle by centuries and giving the first clear evidence of the monum…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Quanterness chambered cairn
Orkney Islands
A burial monument on Mainland into which a roundhouse was built about 700 BC, and which held the remains of 157 people.
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Quoygrew settlement, Westray
Orkney Islands
A medieval Norse settlement on Westray, begun as a small farmstead between about 900 and 1000.
- Near Westray
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ravenswood standing stone
City of Edinburgh
The Ravenswood standing stone is a Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) monument whose repeated moves and survival within an Edinburgh housing estate m…
- Near Edinburgh
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Reask
County Kerry
At the centre of a walled compound a kilometre east of Baile an Fheirtéaraigh, a single cross-inscribed standing stone rises from the grass, surrou…
- Near Dingle
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Rempstone Stone Circle
Dorset
Rempstone Stone Circle is Dorset’s only sandstone circle, a damaged and overgrown Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) monume…
- Near Corfe Castle
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Rennibister Earth House
Orkney Islands
An underground structure on Mainland, probably for storage, found in 1926 when a threshing machine broke through it.
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Rillaton Barrow
Cornwall
Rillaton Barrow produced the celebrated Rillaton Gold Cup, a rare Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) grave object now displayed at t…
- Near Liskeard
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ringlemere barrow
Kent
A metal-detected gold cup led to the discovery that this ploughed-out mound sits atop Kent's largest known assemblage of Neolithic (the late Stone…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Rollright Stones
Warwickshire
Three monuments of local oolitic limestone on the Oxfordshire border, known as the King's Men, the Whispering Knights and the King Stone.
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Round Loaf
Lancashire
Round Loaf is a nationally important, unexcavated burial mound dating from the late Stone Age or the period from about 2500 to 800 BC, whose large…
- Near Anglezarke
- Rough ground
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Rousay
Orkney Islands
A small hilly island north of Mainland, whose density of remains has earned it a reputation of its own.
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Rubha an Dùnain
Highland
A Neolithic chambered cairn shares this remote headland with an Iron Age dun and a rare medieval boat harbour: one of Skye's most densely layered a…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Sarre Anglo-Saxon cemetery
Kent
Described after its 1863 excavation as arguably the richest Anglo-Saxon burial ground yet discovered, it was later found to be far larger than the…
- Near Sarre
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Scar boat burial
Orkney Islands
A Viking boat burial on Sanday, dating from between 875 and 950.
- Near Sanday
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Seven Barrows
Berkshire
A cemetery of Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) burial mounds also shelters one of Berkshire's richest surviving frag…
- Near Upper Lambourn
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Shap Stone Avenue
Cumbria
Antiquarians once ranked this Cumbrian avenue with Avebury as one of Europe's largest stone monuments: now a scatter of boulders and a circle half-…
- Near Shap
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Sheldon stone circle
Aberdeenshire
Long classified as a recumbent stone circle despite no recumbent stone ever being found here, Sheldon has recently had that identity questioned by…
- Near Oldmeldrum
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Shrewsbury Barrow
Greater London
Shrewsbury Barrow is the sole survivor of a cluster of Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) burial mounds once visible o…
- Near Winchester
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Shrub's Wood Long Barrow
Kent
English Heritage counts it among the finest surviving oval barrows in south-east England, yet as of 2007 no archaeologist had ever formally excavat…
- Near Chilham
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
South Street barrow
Wiltshire
Excavation here found no burial at all, making this Wiltshire mound one of England's clearest Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, rough…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Sperris Quoit
Cornwall
Sperris Quoit is a scheduled, ruined Penwith burial chamber whose missing capstone and surviving cremation evidence record both prehistoric (before…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Spinsters' Rock
Devon
Spinsters’ Rock is a striking Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) dolmen near Drewsteignton, whose restored grani…
- Near Drewsteignton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
St Catherine's Hill, Hampshire
Hampshire
A single chalk hilltop carries an Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) hillfort, a lost medieval chapel, a 17th-century turf maze, an…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
St Clement's Church, Rodel
Outer Hebrides
Three generations of MacLeod chiefs are buried in the walls of this building, in tombs they had prepared for themselves while alive. The church at…
- Near Rodel
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
St Lythans burial chamber
Vale of Glamorgan
A single-chamber megalithic dolmen of about 4000 BC, once covered by a long earthen mound.
- Near St Lythans
- Some walking
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Standing Stones of Yoxie
Shetland Islands
Roughly a hundred yards southeast of Benie Hoose, close to the cliff edge at Yoxie Geo on Whalsay's northeastern coast, a partly ruined Neolithic (…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Stanton Drew stone circles
Somerset
Geophysics in 1997 found nine concentric rings of postholes under the Great Circle - more than four hundred pits, holding timbers up to a metre thi…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Stanton Moor
Derbyshire
Beyond the famous Nine Ladies circle, the moor carries three further Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) rings, over seventy barrows…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Station Stones
Wiltshire
Two rough sarsens and two mounded corners trace a rectangle set precisely over Stonehenge's inner circle: a deliberate layout, not a random survival.
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Steinacleit
Outer Hebrides
Ten large stone slabs ring a low central mound on the west coast of Lewis, the only part still standing of the stone burial mound known as Steinacl…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Stone Lud
Highland
Its scale rivals the Ring of Brodgar, yet a fallen twin thirty metres off suggests it once anchored a deliberate sightline to the summer solstice s…
- Near Bower
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Stone of Setter
Orkney Islands
A Late Neolithic standing stone on the island of Eday.
- Near Eday
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Stoney Littleton Long Barrow
Somerset
A tomb of about 3500 BC with a fossil ammonite carved into its doorway: and one of the first monuments the state ever undertook to protect.
- Near Wellow
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Stonor Park
Oxfordshire
A working Catholic recusant household hid a secret printing press behind its walls in 1581: and a prehistoric (predating the written record in Brit…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Strichen stone circle
Aberdeenshire
Destroyed twice and rebuilt twice, Strichen is less a fixed ancient monument than a 250-year argument about where its stones truly belong.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Sunhoney
Aberdeenshire
A cup-marked recumbent stone facing a specific hill has drawn five generations of archaeoastronomers to this circle, from Norman Lockyer to Clive R…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Swanborough Tump
Wiltshire
A humble mound where two Saxon princes bargained over an inheritance in 871, one of them soon to become Alfred the Great, before marching off to fi…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Swinside
Cumbria
Aubrey Burl called it the loveliest stone circle in north-western Europe, yet reaching it still means a mile-and-a-quarter walk uphill on foot with…
- Near Carlisle
- Rough ground
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Sacred place
Tan Hill stone circle
Wiltshire
Nine sarsens that a 1973 investigation thought were probably cleared field stones rather than anything prehistoric: before written records reached…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Taplow Barrow
Buckinghamshire
Second only to Sutton Hoo in wealth and display, this seventh-century mound gave up a lyre, a gold-and-garnet buckle and drinking horns fit for a K…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Taversöe Tuick
Orkney Islands
A burial mound on Rousay of about 4000–2500 BC, with a rare double-tiered chamber.
- Near Rousay
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
The Bridestones
Cheshire
Only one burial chamber and two portal stones remain from this Stone Age cairn; a detailed 1764 account records the much larger monument that road-…
- Near Chester
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
The Calderstones
Merseyside
The Calderstones are Liverpool’s oldest known monument: six surviving Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) stones…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
The Devil's Den
Wiltshire
A dolmen chamber whose single capstone is reckoned at seventeen tons: the sole surviving fragment of a long mound once some 70 metres in length.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
The Goatstones
Northumberland
The Goatstones preserves a Bronze-Age four-poster stone circle near Ravensheugh Crags, with cup marks and a possible earlier burial cairn, a mound…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
The Grey Mare and her Colts
Dorset
The Grey Mare and her Colts is a substantial Neolithic: the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain: chambered long barrow, a burial mound bu…
- Near Abbotsbury
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
The Hurlers (stone circles)
Cornwall
The Hurlers are three aligned stone circles on Bodmin Moor, a large ceremonial complex with surviving stones, nearby monoliths and a long record of…
- Near Minions
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
The Longstone, Mottistone
Isle of Wight
The Longstone is the Isle of Wight’s only megalithic monument, a pair of greensand stones linked to a rare non-chalk Neolithic long barrow: a buria…
- Near Mottistone
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
The Merry Maidens
Cornwall
The Merry Maidens is a late Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) Penwith stone circle whose intact-looking ring, associated Pipe…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Newgrange cursus
County Meath
A short banked monument from the later Stone Age east of Newgrange preserves the ordered movement of ceremony: two banks framing a route towards th…
- Near Drogheda
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Nine Maidens stone circle
Devon
The Nine Maidens is a Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) Dartmoor stone circle whose damaged burial setting, survival among clitter…
- Near Belstone
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Obadiah's Barrow
Cornwall
Obadiah’s Barrow: a burial mound of earth from from the era before writing arrived in these islands: is Gugh’s largest entrance grave, where a 1901…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Pawton Quoit
Cornwall
Pawton Quoit is an early Neolithic portal tomb: a tomb from from the era before writing arrived in these islands where uprights lift one huge roofi…
- Near Penzance
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Pinnacle Hill
Herefordshire
A summit on the Malvern ridge carrying two possible Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) round barrows, burial mounds se…
- Near Colwall
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery
Dorset
Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery is an unusually large, low-lying Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) burial landscape in Dorset, where forty…
- Near Winterbourne Abbas
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Porth Hellick Down
Cornwall
Porth Hellick Down contains the world’s largest surviving group of entrance graves, linking Neolithic burial monuments: from the closing Stone Age,…
- Near Penzance
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Rathcoran
County Wicklow
A Bronze Age hillfort, a defended hilltop settlement built when metal tools first spread between roughly 2500 and 800 BC, was built directly around…
- Near Wicklow
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ringmoor stone row and cairn circle
Devon
Ringmoor combines one of Devon’s long prehistoric (before written records reached Britain) stone rows with a cairn (a mound of piled stones, often…
- Near Shaugh Prior
- Rough ground
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Rinyo
Orkney Islands
A settlement of the first farming age on Rousay, discovered in the winter of 1937.
- Near Rousay
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ronas Hill
Shetland Islands
At 450 metres, Ronas Hill is the highest point in the Shetland Islands, and its summit is crowned not just by a trig point but by a Neolithic chamb…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Scorhill
Devon
Scorhill is one of Devon’s largest and best-preserved Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) stone circles, where damaged but u…
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Shovel Down
Devon
Shovel Down is a concentrated Dartmoor prehistoric (predating the written record in Britain) landscape, combining probable Bronze Age (roughly 2500…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Showery Tor
Cornwall
Showery Tor is a distinctive Bodmin Moor outcrop wrapped in a large artificial cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial), preserving…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Spong Hill
Norfolk
Spong Hill is the largest known Early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery, containing 2,259 cremations and 57 inhumations that reveal a regional burial…
- Near North Elmham
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
St Ninian's Isle
Shetland Islands
St Ninian's Isle sits off the south-western coast of Shetland Mainland, joined to it by a 500-metre tombolo, the largest in the United Kingdom. Loc…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Stannon stone circle
Cornwall
Stannon stone circle is a large Bodmin Moor ring whose many surviving stones and nearby Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spr…
- Rough ground
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Stanydale Temple
Shetland Islands
In a field roughly 21 miles by road northwest of Lerwick, on Mainland Shetland, a large walled enclosure is all that survives of a building once ro…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Stripple stones
Cornwall
The Stripple Stones combine a henge (a prehistoric (predating the written record in Britain) earthwork (a bank or ditch dug and heaped from the gro…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Sunningdale Barrow
Berkshire
Excavation of one mound recovered cremation burials placed in urns: direct physical evidence of Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking…
- Near Sunningdale
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Templebryan Stone Circle
County Cork
Only four of an original nine stones still stand, yet Templebryan preserves two sacred layers at once: a prehistoric (predating the written record…
- Near Clonakilty
- Some walking
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