Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
The Poind and his Man
Northumberland
The Poind and his Man is an ancient burial mound and standing stone site in Northumberland, dating from the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Therfield Heath
Hertfordshire
One stretch of chalk grassland, still grazed as open common, carries Hertfordshire's largest known group of barrows: burial mounds of heaped earth,…
- Near St Albans
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Thickthorn Down Long Barrows
Dorset
Thickthorn Down’s paired long barrows show how Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) burial monuments were delibera…
- Near Gussage St Michael
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Three Brothers of Grugith
Cornwall
The Three Brothers of Grugith is a scheduled Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) dolmen overlooking Goonhilly Downs, preserving…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Threestoneburn Stone Circle
Northumberland
Threestoneburn’s sixteen granite stones, lost sightlines and outlying alignments preserve an unusually extensive ritual landscape from about 2500 t…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Iron Age
Thundersbarrow Hill
West Sussex
Three occupations on one chalk ridge, separated by more than a thousand years each way: a burial mound, a fort, and a farming village.
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Tinkinswood
the-vale-of-glamorgan
Nine hundred and twenty human bones, nearly all broken, were found inside: at least forty people of every age, buried under what may be the largest…
- Near St Nicholas
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Tofts Ness
Orkney Islands
Tofts Ness is a Sanday peninsula with ancient mounds, cairns, enclosures and structural remains, alongside evidence of later shipwrecks.
- Near Sanday
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Tomb of the Eagles
Orkney Islands
Tomb of the Eagles is a late Stone Age burial chamber on South Ronaldsay, where human remains and eagle bones reveal changing funerary practices.
- Near South Ronaldsay
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Tomnaverie stone circle
Aberdeenshire
Excavation here overturned a long-held theory: the cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) was built before the circle, not after,…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Torhouse
Dumfries and Galloway
Nineteen granite boulders sit on a slightly raised platform on the land of Torhouse, three miles west of Wigtown. They form a circle roughly 22 met…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Torrylin Cairn
North Ayrshire
Torrylin Cairn preserves a Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) Clyde cairn whose chamber, burials and later damage reveal…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Townleyhall passage grave
County Louth
A 1962 excavation here gave archaeologists their first solid proof that Ireland's passage graves date to the Neolithic period: the late Stone Age,…
- Near Drogheda
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Trefignath
isle-of-anglesey
Three burial chambers built one after another on the same knoll over centuries, their capstones carted off for gateposts in about 1790 and the site…
- Near Bangor
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Tregiffian Burial Chamber
Cornwall
Tregiffian is a rare Cornish entrance grave whose passage, decorated stone and evidence of cremation and urn burials illuminate long-lived prehisto…
- Near St Buryan
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Trethevy Quoit
Cornwall
Trethevy Quoit is one of Cornwall’s best-preserved Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) portal graves, remarkable for its immens…
- Near St Cleer
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Tullos Cairn
Aberdeen City
One of four stone burial mounds sharing Tullos Hill, raised in the Bronze Age: roughly 2500 to 800 BC, when metal tools first spread: and still out…
- Near Aberdeen
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Turoe Stone
County Galway
A granite pillar carved with flowing La Tène-style ornament, likely used in prehistoric ceremonies of kingship: and a monument whose own repeated r…
- Near Loughrea
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Twelve Apostles Stone Circle
Dumfries and Galloway
Eleven stones stand in a rough ring on farmland between Holywood and Newbridge, a little north-west of Dumfries. Five are still earthfast; the rest…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Twelve Apostles, West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
A circle on Rombalds Moor reduced from twenty stones to twelve, all of which had fallen by the mid twentieth century and were re-erected without au…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Tŷ Newydd Burial Chamber
Isle of Anglesey
Excavation in 1935 found flint tools, a chip from a polished axe and Beaker pottery beneath the stones: evidence that Bronze Age (the period from a…
- Near Bangor
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Tyrebagger stone circle
Aberdeen City
One of only a handful of recumbent stone circles left with all eleven of its original stones still in place: including a 24-ton granite giant laid…
- Near Dyce
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Uley Long Barrow
Gloucestershire
A five-thousand-year-old gallery grave that drew burials on and off for millennia: Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) dead, a…
- Near Gloucester
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Updown early medieval cemetery
Kent
Updown is a large seventh-century cemetery near the Kentish royal centre of Eastry, revealing Christian burial practice and long-distance ancestral…
- Near Eastry
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Vinquoy chambered cairn
Orkney Islands
Vinquoy is a restored Stone Age burial monument on Eday, built around a central chamber with four small side-cells and overlooking Calf Sound.
- Near Eday
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Waulud's Bank
Bedfordshire
Its curved bank and outer ditch so closely mirror the much larger Marden Henge in Wiltshire that the two river-edge sites may share a single Neolit…
- Near Luton
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Waun Mawn
Pembrokeshire
A site whose famous claim: that Stonehenge began here: has been argued down step by step since 2021 by the geology and by a re-reading of the evide…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Welbeck Hill
Lincolnshire
One grave held grave goods rivalling Sutton Hoo in craftsmanship: a runic silver bracteate, cruciform brooches, and cushion covers sewn with matchi…
- Near Lincoln
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
West Kennet Long Barrow
Wiltshire
Its chamber's roof stands tall enough to walk upright in, a rarity among Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) tombs, and it held…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
West Lanyon Quoit
Cornwall
West Lanyon Quoit is a scheduled fragment of a prehistoric portal tomb: a tomb from from the era before writing arrived in these islands where upri…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Wet Withens
Derbyshire
Its earthen bank, over 30 metres across, makes Wet Withens the largest embanked stone circle known in Derbyshire: a Bronze Age (the period from abo…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Wheebin standing stone
orkney-islands
Livestock have polished the lower half of this stone smooth by rubbing against it; a deep crevice runs from the middle to the top.
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Whetstones (stone circle)
Powys
A large stone circle blown up in the 1860s, whose only recorded contents are the charcoal and bones somebody noticed as the last stone came out.
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
White Barrow
Wiltshire
In 1909 it became the first piece of land the National Trust ever bought purely to protect an archaeological site, setting a precedent still follow…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Whitehill Wood, Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire
Two dating estimates over a thousand years apart - Sir Norman Lockyer's 1200 BC and Historic Environment Scotland's roughly 4500 years old - sit on…
- Near Aberchirder
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Wideford Hill chambered cairn
Orkney Islands
Wideford Hill is a Stone Age burial mound on Mainland Orkney, with a chamber, side chambers and masonry that shows how the tomb was built.
- Near Kirkwall
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Wilsford Henge
Wiltshire
A ceremonial ditch invisible on the ground but confirmed by geophysics, standing barely a kilometre from Marden Henge, one of Britain's largest, ac…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Wimble Toot
Somerset
Wimble Toot is a scheduled ridge monument interpreted either as a burial mound dating from the period from about 2500 to 800 BC or as a possible No…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Windmill Tump
Gloucestershire
Windmill Tump is a substantial late Stone Age chambered tomb in Gloucestershire, whose 5,000-ton cairn, a mound of piled stones covering a burial,…
- Near Gloucester
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Winterbourne Bassett Stone Circle
Wiltshire
A vanished ring near Avebury whose original scale: two concentric rings some 71 metres across: survives only in an 1880s antiquarian (an early coll…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Withypool Stone Circle
Somerset
Withypool preserves one of only two surviving Exmoor stone circles, a small-stone monument set among a dense landscape of ancient burial mounds.
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Wor Barrow
Dorset
Wor Barrow records an Early–Middle Neolithic mortuary monument and a landmark full excavation by Augustus Pitt Rivers, whose detailed results resha…
- Near Sixpenny Handley
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Wormy Hillock Henge
Aberdeenshire
An 1891 dig aimed at a supposed sheep enclosure found nothing at all: evidence that this mini-henge, a small circular enclosure from before written…
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Wren's Egg
Dumfries and Galloway
A large glacial erratic sits in a field in the parish of Glasserton, in what was historically Wigtownshire, and gives its name to the whole monumen…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Yonder Bognie
Aberdeenshire
One of more than seventy recumbent stone circles unique to lowland Aberdeenshire, its closest architectural parallels lie not in Scotland but in so…
- Near Huntly
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Timoney Stones
County Tipperary
Nobody agrees on when these stones went up: some read them as Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain) ritual work, others a…
- Near Nenagh
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Tregeseal East stone circle
Cornwall
The surviving member of a probable line of three Cornish stone circles, its restored granite ring preserving a wider ritual landscape beneath Carn…
- Near St Just
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Trippet stones
Cornwall
The Trippet Stones are a Bodmin Moor circle whose surviving granite uprights, lost stones and visual relationship with the Stripple Stones preserve…
- Near Bodmin
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Tulach an t-Sionnaich
Highland
Excavation found the earliest known heel-shaped cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) on the Scottish mainland folded inside two…
- Near Watten
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ty Mawr Burial Chamber
Isle of Anglesey
Ty Mawr is a collapsed Neolithic passage grave: a tomb reached by a stone-lined passage from the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain: w…
- Near Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Uragh Stone Circle
County Kerry
Five low megaliths ring a shoulder of the Beara Peninsula between Lough Inchiquin and Lough Cloonee Upper, set beside a single standing stone that…
- Near Kenmare
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Whitcastles stone circle
Dumfries and Galloway
Nine stones lie fallen in an oval on high ground north-east of Lockerbie, none of them still standing. The setting, known as Whitcastles or Little…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Yellowmead stone circle
Devon
Yellowmead is a rare Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) concentric stone circle of four rings, with excavated evidence of a…
- Near Sheepstor
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Zennor Quoit
Cornwall
Zennor Quoit is one of West Penwith's best-preserved prehistoric (before any written account of Britain existed) burial chambers, retaining a huge…
- Near Zennor
- Rough ground
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