Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Bryn Celli Ddu
isle-of-anglesey
A tomb reached by a stone-lined passage, built around 2000 BC by smashing the stone circle that stood here first, and aligned so midsummer sunrise…
- Near Llanddaniel Fab
The temporal lens · era 1 of 5
Prehistoric Britain & Ireland
Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland: the first builders, raised in stone and earth.
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Stonehenge
Wiltshire
Its bluestones were hauled some 150 miles from Wales, and its Altar Stone has now been traced to Scotland, 700 km away: proof of a Neolithic (the f…
- Near Amesbury
- 2.4 km from car park
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Elgin Cathedral
Moray
Known as the Lantern of the North, it was Scotland's second-largest medieval cathedral and uniquely combined an English-style octagonal chapter hou…
- Near Elgin
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Achnabreck Cup and Ring Marks
Argyll and Bute
One of the densest and most elaborate concentrations of prehistoric (before written records reached Britain) cup and ring carvings anywhere in Scot…
- Near Lochgilphead
- 6 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ballymeanoch Standing Stones and Henge
Argyll and Bute
One of the few places in Kilmartin Glen where a stone avenue, a circle and a henge: a circular enclosure from before any written account of Britain…
- Near Kilmartin
- 6 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Broch of Gurness
Orkney Islands
The Broch of Gurness is a stone tower and settlement on the north-east coast of Mainland Orkney, overlooking Eynhallow Sound.
- Near Evie
- 141 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cairn Holy Chambered Cairns
Dumfries and Galloway
Cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) Holy is the site of two Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) chambered…
- Near Newton Stewart
- 207 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cairnpapple Hill
West Lothian
Cairnpapple Hill, on a dominating summit 312 metres above sea level with views from coast to coast in central lowland Scotland, was used and re-use…
- Near Bathgate
- 264 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Calanais Standing Stones
Outer Hebrides
Erected around 2750 BC, before Stonehenge, and laid out so that none of its three stone rows actually points at the centre of its own circle.
- Near Calanais
- 107 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Clava Cairns
Highland
Clava’s planned arrangement of cairns and standing stones offers rare evidence of a single communal decision about burial and remembrance, rather t…
- Near Inverness
- 149 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Croft Moraig Stone Circle
Perth and Kinross
Croft Moraig is a complex multi-phase monument. Excavation in 1965 revealed three phases of construction: first a horseshoe of fourteen timber post…
- Near Kenmore
- 3.1 km from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
A crawl into this first-farming-age tomb leads to four side cells and the extraordinary remains of people and twenty-four dogs, evidence of a commu…
- Near Finstown
- 270 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Dunchraigaig Cairn
Argyll and Bute
Dunchraigaig is an Early Bronze Age round cairn, about 30 m across, set a little apart to the south-east of the famous 2 km linear cemetery of cair…
- Near Kilmartin
- 1 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Dwarfie Stane
Orkney Islands
A chamber tomb carved out of a single glacial erratic of Old Red Sandstone, in a steep valley on Hoy.
- Near Rackwick
- 8 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Grey Cairns of Camster
Highland
Two Neolithic tombs raised on land so fertile that people farmed it: before the Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) bur…
- Near Lybster
- 120 metres from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Hill o' Many Stanes
Highland
Alexander Thom argued these modest stones once tracked the moon's 18.6-year cycle: a claim no other Caithness stone row has earned.
- Near Lybster
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Hownam Rings
Scottish Borders
C. M. Piggott's 1948 excavation at Hownam Rings became a landmark in the archaeology of northern Britain. It produced the 'Hownam model' (or 'Howna…
- Near Hownam
- 1.2 km from car park
- Some walking
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Jarlshof
Shetland Islands
Jarlshof preserves an unusually complete sequence of human occupation, with remains dating from about 2500 BC to the seventeenth century AD.
- Near Sumburgh
- 3 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Laggangairn Standing Stones
Dumfries and Galloway
Laggangairn’s stones link a setting from before written records reached Britain to early Christian crosses and a medieval Whithorn pilgrimage route…
- Near Newton Stewart
- 164 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Loanhead of Daviot Stone Circle
Aberdeenshire
One of only a handful of Aberdeenshire recumbent circles with every stone still standing, its granite ring encloses a cairn (a mound of piled stone…
- Near Daviot
- 3 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Maeshowe Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
The burial mound was built around 2800 BC by farming communities of central Orkney and contains a stone chamber associated with the Grooved Ware po…
- Near Stenness
- 1.6 km from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Midhowe Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
A large burial mound with an internal stone chamber on the south shore of Rousay, named after the drystone tower beside it.
- Near Rousay
- 10 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Nether Largie South Chambered Cairn
Argyll and Bute
Nether Largie South is a Neolithic Clyde-type chambered cairn, a mound of piled stones often covering a burial, and the earliest monument in the Ki…
- Near Kilmartin
- 7 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Quoyness Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
A tomb mistaken for a broch until 1867, holding at least ten adults and possibly four children in a stone-lined cist: a box grave built of slabs: w…
- Near Sanday
- 20 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ri Cruin Cairn
Argyll and Bute
The southernmost cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) in Kilmartin Glen's five-mile chain of Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) b…
- Near Kilmartin
- 8 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ring of Brodgar
Orkney Islands
The Ring of Brodgar is a stone circle on the narrow isthmus between the Lochs of Stenness and Harray on Mainland, Orkney.
- Near Stenness
- 5 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Skara Brae
Orkney Islands
Ten roofless stone houses survive at Skara Brae with their built-in furniture still in place: hearths, dressers and box-beds. Occupied for roughly…
- Near Stromness
- 5 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Stones of Stenness Circle and Henge
Orkney Islands
An ancient monument five miles north-east of Stromness that may be the oldest circular enclosure in the British Isles.
- Near Stenness
- 2 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Tappoch Broch
Falkirk
Tappoch Broch is a scheduled stone tower dating from from about 800 BC until the Romans came, whose surviving chamber, staircase and recent conserv…
- Near Torwood
- 20 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Temple Wood Stone Circles
Argyll and Bute
At the centre of the southern circle at Temple Wood lies a burial cist (a grave lined and capped with stone slabs), ringed by a smaller circle of s…
- Near Kilmartin
- 8 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Traprain Law
East Lothian
The hill was already a place of burial by around 1500 BC and shows evidence of occupation and ramparts after 1000 BC; the ramparts were rebuilt and…
- Near East Linton
- 25 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Unstan Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
Twenty to thirty bowls were put in here, most of them already broken and already used: one sherd carried the impression of a barley grain.
- Near Stenness
- 2 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
White Caterthun
Angus
The neighbouring Brown Caterthun was repeatedly altered during the latter half of the first millennium BC; White Caterthun preserves the contrastin…
- Near Brechin
- 15 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
33 Whitecross Street, Monmouth
Monmouthshire
33 Whitecross Street is an eighteenth-century listed house whose 2009 extension archaeology revealed activity from the Stone Age through Roman, med…
- Near Monmouth
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Adam's Grave
Wiltshire
A long grassy mound rises on the chalk near Alton Barnes, with sarsen stones remembered as Old Adam and Little Eve near its former entrance. Adam's…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Addington Long Barrow
Kent
Sarsen stones cluster beside a narrow road near Addington, the battered remains of a Neolithic tomb: from the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500…
- Near Addington
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Aikey Brae stone circle
Aberdeenshire
Its 21.5-tonne recumbent stone ranks among the heaviest in Aberdeenshire, yet a 2001 dig returned a puzzling late radiocarbon date that unsettles t…
- Near Old Deer
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Alderman's Barrow
Somerset
An ancient burial mound that later became a meeting point for four Exmoor parishes, carrying its changing place-name through centuries of local bou…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Annadorn Dolmen
County Down
A Neolithic burial chamber that doubled, centuries later, as a speaking platform for a founder of the United Irishmen: two very different gathering…
- Near Downpatrick
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Aquhorthies stone circle
Aberdeenshire
One of Aberdeenshire's recumbent stone circles built with two rings rather than one, its unusual forecourt and alternating stone heights have puzzl…
- Near Inverurie
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Arbor Low
Derbyshire
Rare among British henges for how completely its earthworks and stone circle survive together, with a linked Bronze Age, roughly 2500–800 BC, barro…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Arbury Banks, Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
One of only six known hillforts strung along the northern Chilterns, and a serious contender for the battle where a small Roman force destroyed Bou…
- Near Hertford
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Archcliffe Fort
Kent
Archcliffe Fort is a surviving Dover coastal defence whose ramparts span Tudor invasion fears, Stuart rebuilding, railway and road losses, and a pr…
- Near Dover
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ardnadam Farm
Argyll and Bute
A field on the Cowal shore where a Neolithic tomb was read by nineteenth-century antiquarians as a Druidical altar, and by local tradition as the g…
- Near Dunoon
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire
Herefordshire
A capstone of more than 25 tonnes still balances on nine stones nearly five thousand years after burial rites began here: and storytellers have sin…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ashleypark Burial Mound
County Tipperary
Radiocarbon dating fixes a burial here at roughly 3350 BC, one of the most precisely dated Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in B…
- Near Clonmel
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Aubrey holes
Wiltshire
A precise ring of 56 buried pits older than Stonehenge's famous stones, and later reused as Britain's oldest known cremation cemetery.
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Audleystown Court Tomb
County Down
Audleystown is Ireland’s only known double-court, double-gallery tomb: excavations recovered 34 people and rare burial evidence, while later conser…
- Near Downpatrick
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Aughlish
County Londonderry
One stone row here points precisely at the moon's southernmost rising or setting point: rare physical evidence that Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC…
- Near Maghera
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Auld Bourtreebush
Aberdeenshire
Long dismissed as a recumbent stone circle like its neighbour at Aquhorthies, modern scholarship has overturned that reading, restoring Auld Bourtr…
- Near Portlethen
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Avebury
Wiltshire
Huge standing stones rise among cottages, lanes and open grass, making Avebury feel less like a monument beside a village than a village caught ins…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Aymestrey burial
Herefordshire
A child buried on its side in a stone-lined pit with a beaker and a flint knife, some four thousand years ago, in a gravel bed beside the River Lugg.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Baker's Hole
Kent
Baker’s Hole is a nationally important Palaeolithic quarry landscape, known for evidence of large-scale Neanderthal stone-tool production but compl…
- Near Northfleet
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Balbirnie Stone Circle
Fife
A circle of which only five stones stood when excavation began in 1970, four more stumps and a tenth socket being found beneath.
- Easy path
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Balbridie
Aberdeenshire
The largest Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain) long house ever excavated in Britain, its scale rivalling only a handfu…
- Near Banchory
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Balfarg
Fife
Balfarg preserves a multi-phase Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) ceremonial landscape within modern Glenrothes, includ…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Balgarthno Stone Circle
dundee-city
Nine stones on a circle six and a half metres across, all but one of them down, with a causeway running thirty metres east: surrounded now by the h…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ballochroy
Argyll and Bute
Alexander Thom argued its central stone's flat face was cut to point exactly at sunset over a named Jura peak at the solstices: making Ballochroy o…
- Near Campbeltown
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ballykeel Dolmen
County Armagh
Excavation in 1963 recovered decorated Neolithic pottery, a javelin head and flint tools from a tomb whose three-metre granite capstone balances on…
- Near Lurgan
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ballynoe stone circle
County Down
Its bones vanished into a Dutch basement for 90 years before a Belfast PhD student tracked them down and brought them home in 2023.
- Near Downpatrick
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Balquhain
Aberdeenshire
A rounded hump on its ten-tonne recumbent stone echoes the outline of Mither Tap behind it, and 1980s survey work found its flanking stones deliber…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Barbrook One
Derbyshire
A modest ring on Ramsley Moor sits among roughly eighty prehistoric (before written records reached Britain) cairns, one of a tight cluster of ston…
- Near Bakewell
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Barclodiad y Gawres
Isle of Anglesey
Barclodiad y Gawres is a Neolithic: the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC: cruciform passage grave, a burial chamber entered al…
- Near Rhosneigr
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Barkhale Camp
West Sussex
An enclosure of the first farming age on Bignor Hill, its banks broken by causeways, of a class built in England from a little before 3700 BC.
- Some walking
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Barnhouse Settlement
Orkney Islands
A settlement of the first farming age on the shore of the Loch of Harray, close to the Standing Stones of Stenness.
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Barpa Langass
Outer Hebrides
Two massive slabs form the roof of Barpa Langass, with a third slab laid on top of them, capping a stone burial mound on the Isle of North Uist tha…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Barrow Camera
Derbyshire
A Knights Hospitaller administrative outpost whose stone hall survived Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries in the 1530s), absorbed…
- Near Bakewell
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Barrow Clump
Wiltshire
A single surviving Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) burial mound, reused six centuries later as an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, later excavated by soldier…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Barrow Gurney Nunnery
Somerset
Minchin Barrow, a Benedictine convent so poor it transferred itself into a Welsh diocese: and ended as somebody's country house.
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Barwick-in-Elmet Castle
West Yorkshire
Four powers fortified this ground in turn: the Britons, the Romans, the kings of Northumbria and finally the Normans.
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Battlegore Burial Chamber
Somerset
Three round mounds and possibly a long one at Williton, excavated by George Gray in 1931.
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Beaudesert Castle
Warwickshire
An Iron Age fort reshaped into a Norman castle, seat of the de Montforts for more than a century, and now a mound with one stone on it.
- Near Henley-in-Arden
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Beckhampton Avenue
Wiltshire
One stone still stands, called Adam. Excavation in 2000 recovered the rest of the avenue from below ground, as post-holes.
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Bedd Arthur
Pembrokeshire
Thirteen upright stones in a broken horseshoe on a Preseli ridge, with fallen stones and a faint bank and ditch completing the outline.
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Beeley Moor
Derbyshire
A square Bronze Age cairn holding cremated bone anchors this moor's scattered monuments: the same heather ground where a 1977 siege became one of B…
- Near Bakewell
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Behy court tomb
County Mayo
Its court and chamber were built with drystone walling instead of the standing stones typical of the type: a construction choice that quietly compl…
- Near Belmullet
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Belas Knap
Gloucestershire
Excavations here recovered the remains of more than forty people, added to four chambers across many generations behind a grand entrance that turns…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Beltany stone circle
County Donegal
One of Ireland's finest surviving stone circles, Beltany may sit atop ritual ground already sacred to Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2…
- Near Raphoe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Bincknoll Castle
Wiltshire
A single grassy promontory carries two unresolved stories at once: a disputed Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) fort and the sturd…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Birkrigg stone circle
Cumbria
A double ring within a ring: twelve inner stones and twenty outer stones enclose a pavement that once covered five separate cremation burials.
- Near Ulverston
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn preserves a Neolithic, the late Stone Age, burial monument dating from roughly 4000–2500 BC, on Rousay in Orkney.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Blackpatch
West Sussex
A Neolithic flint mine with Bronze Age barrows built over it: two thousand years of use on the same patch of down.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Blaise Castle Estate
Bristol
A folly built to fake a medieval past gave its name to a Neoclassical mansion, a landscaped gorge and nine cottages that became the template for ev…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Blakey Topping standing stones
North Yorkshire
Four surviving stones, one now doing duty as a gatepost, may be the last fragments of a stone circle or paired alignment some seventeen metres across.
- Rough ground
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Blick Mead
Wiltshire
A spring that never freezes drew hunter-gatherers to camp beside it for four thousand years, leaving the densest concentration of Mesolithic (the m…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Blue cairn circle
Aberdeenshire
The recumbent slab lies squared and deliberate rather than fallen, and the stone cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) heaped in…
- Near Logie Coldstone
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Bluestonehenge
Wiltshire
A stone circle stripped of its stones, this henge: a bank and ditch enclosing a circular space: on the River Avon appears to be the very source of…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Bocan Stone Circle
County Donegal
A scattered ring of standing stones on Bocan Hill said to be lined up on a sightline running clear across the sea to Jura in Scotland.
- Near Clonmany
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Bodowyr
Isle of Anglesey
A passage-grave chamber of a form more common in Ireland than Wales, standing on flat ground with Snowdon and the Glyderau visible on the horizon.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Boskednan stone circle
Cornwall
Boskednan stone circle is a partially restored late Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) or early Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 B…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Botley Stone
shropshire
Ordnance Survey maps show a burial mound here. What survives is a ring of stones around an open centre, raised on the parish boundary at 394 metres.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Brane Barrow
Cornwall
Brane Barrow is a small, well-preserved Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) entrance grave whose exposed chamber makes th…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Brennanstown Portal Tomb
County Dublin
Known locally by three different names, this megalithic burial chamber on the Carrickmines River is one of County Dublin's few surviving monuments…
- Near Dublin
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Brinklow Castle
Warwickshire
A burial mound raised before writing reached Britain, reshaped by the Normans into a motte: the earthen mound a castle was raised on: 12 metres hig…
- Near Brinklow
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Brisworthy stone circle
Devon
Brisworthy’s restored circle makes the loss and recovery of a Dartmoor ritual monument visible: twenty-four stones stand where perhaps forty-two on…
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Broadlea henge
Dumfries and Galloway
A Roman marching camp's ditch cuts clean through Broadlea henge: a circular enclosure formed by a bank and an inner ditch: entering by the north-we…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Broadsands Chambered Tomb
Devon
A Scheduled Neolithic chambered tomb above Broadsands Beach, preserving a burial chamber, cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial)…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Brown Low
Greater Manchester
Brown Low is a protected Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) bowl barrow, a burial mound from the prehistoric: a period before writte…
- Near Marple
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Brownshill dolmen
County Carlow
A single granite capstone estimated at 150 metric tons rests here: reputed to be the heaviest of any dolmen in Europe.
- Near Carlow
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Brú na Bóinne
County Meath
At least ninety monuments packed into one bend of the Boyne make this the largest and richest concentration of megalithic art anywhere in Europe.
- Near Drogheda
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Bryn Cader Faner
Gwynedd
Bryn Cader Faner is a striking late-third-millennium-BC round cairn: a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial: near Talsarnau, distinguishe…
- Near Talsarnau
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Bryn Gwyn stones
Isle of Anglesey
Excavation recovered the pits of five stones destroyed by treasure hunters in 1797, letting archaeologists reconstruct a Neolithic circle of eight:…
- Near Brynsiencyn
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Burfa Castle
Powys
Five hundred and seventy-nine metres by 187, with three or four banks and ditches and a torturous approach at the entrance: and forestry has taken…
- Near Old Radnor
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Burnmoor stone circles
Cumbria
Five separate rings spread across roughly a square mile make this the most extensive stone circle complex on Cumbria's western fells, each ring pai…
- Near Ravenglass
- Rough ground
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Burnt mound in Fox Hollies Park
West Midlands
An oval mound 0.3 metres high in a Birmingham park, scheduled in 2002: and that, with a date in the Bronze Age, roughly 2500–800 BC, is the whole o…
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Bury Castle, Brompton Regis
Somerset
An Iron Age fort above the meeting of two rivers, reused a thousand years later as a castle in the civil war between Stephen and Matilda.
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Bury Castle, Selworthy
somerset
A defended enclosure of a fifth of a hectare on a spur above Selworthy, with a second bank thrown out thirty metres west, where the ground offers n…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Bush Barrow
Wiltshire
A single Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) burial on a Wiltshire ridge produced the richest grave goods found anywhere in…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Caergwrle Castle
Flintshire
The last castle built by a Welsh ruler before the conquest of 1282, it changed hands from Dafydd ap Gruffydd to an English queen within six years,…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cairn Catto
Aberdeenshire
A near-48-metre wedge of pink granite boulders on a Buchan ridge, one of north-east Scotland's longer Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 400…
- Near Longside
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cairnderry chambered cairn
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:…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Callaly Castle
Northumberland
Callaly Castle layers a medieval pele tower within a long-evolving country house, revealing how Northumberland’s defensive residences were transfor…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Callanish IV
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…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Carfury Standing Stone
Cornwall
The three-metre Carfury slab is unusually revealing because the 1957–58 excavation recorded its elliptical socket and packing stones, even though i…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Carn Ban
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…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Carn Glas
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…
- Near Inverness
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Carreg Cennen Castle
Carmarthenshire
A cave beneath the walls holds its own freshwater spring, running deep into the hillside: the detail that let a fortress survive on a waterless lim…
- Near Llandeilo
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Carreg Samson
Pembrokeshire
A burial monument five thousand years old, half a mile west of Abercastle, known also as Samson's Stone and the Longhouse.
- Near Abercastle
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Carrigagulla
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…
- Near Macroom
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Carrigaphooca Stone Circle
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…
- Near Macroom
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Carrowmore
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…
- Near Sligo
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Carrownlisheen Wedge Tomb
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…
- Near Carna
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Carwynnen Quoit
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…
- Near Camborne
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Castell Bryn Gwyn
isle-of-anglesey
A grass-covered bank enclosing a level circle 54 metres across, first raised in the Neolithic: the last age of stone tools: and rebuilt in the Iron…
- Near Brynsiencyn
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Castell Dinas
Powys
The highest castle in England or Wales, built in stone inside the ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort a thousand years older: a defended hilltop settl…
- Near Talgarth
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Castell Dinas Brân
Denbighshire
A ruined stone castle crowning an Iron Age hillfort, built by a Welsh prince as a buffer against England: then burned by its own defenders rather t…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Castle Bloody
Orkney Islands
An unresolved Shapinsay structure that may be a burial mound or an underground passage connected with settlement, challenging easy readings of how…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Castle Dykes Henge
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…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Castle Law, Abernethy
Perth and Kinross
A contour fort above Abernethy, scheduled since 1964: older than the medieval lordship in the village below, and with no recorded connection to it.
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Castle Law, Forgandenny
Perth and Kinross
A multiple-enclosure hillfort above Forgandenny whose banks and ditches are effectively its entire history: the written record has almost nothing t…
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Castle Neroche
Somerset
A castle named after a kennel for hunting dogs, whose earthworks are too big for a Norman castle: and which ended up as a base against poachers.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Castlenalacht Stone Row
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.
- Near Macroom
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Castlerigg stone circle
Cumbria
An internal rectangle of ten stones sits inside the ring, a feature almost unknown among British stone circles and never satisfactorily explained.
- Near Keswick
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Catholme ceremonial complex
Staffordshire
Nothing here is visible from the ground. A timber circle of 225 postholes and a monument nicknamed the sunburst are known only from the air.
- Near Barton-under-Needwood
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Catpund
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…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Caus Castle
Shropshire
A ruined castle on the Long Mountain foothills, overlooking the route from Shrewsbury to Montgomery.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Cefnllys Castle
Powys
A new castle built here by Roger Mortimer helped push Llywelyn ap Gruffudd into refusing fealty to Edward I: and into the war that ended Welsh inde…
- Near Llandrindod Wells
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cheetham Close
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…
- Near Turton
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Chestnuts Long Barrow
Kent
Chestnuts Long Barrow is a ruined Medway Megalith whose chamber held collective Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) burials, po…
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Church Hill, West Sussex
West Sussex
John Pull dug six of its thirty-six shafts across two campaigns interrupted by the Second World War.
- Near Findon
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Cissbury Ring
West Sussex
Around 270 shafts were sunk into this hill over three centuries, some twelve metres deep, with galleries running out from the bottom of each.
- Near Findon
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Clach an Trushal
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…
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Cladh Hallan
Outer Hebrides
Cladh Hallan is an ancient settlement on South Uist, notable for mummified bodies that were preserved and later reburied.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Clandon Barrow
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…
- Near Martinstown
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Clava cairn
Highland
A burial mound of piled stones at Balnuaran of Clava, whose kerb stones were sorted by colour before they were laid.
- Near Inverness
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Clava cairns of Aviemore
Highland
These three damaged circles preserve unusually detailed evidence for how field clearance, railway construction and housing altered an interconnecte…
- Near Aviemore
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Coldrum Long Barrow
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…
- Near Trottiscliffe
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Colmeallie stone circle
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…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Combe Hill, East Sussex
East Sussex
Two millennia apart, people chose this hilltop to bury deliberate offerings: three polished Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in…
- Near Jevington
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Coneybury Henge
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…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Coolcoulaghta Standing Stones
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…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Corrimony chambered cairn
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…
- Near Drumnadrochit
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Cow Cave
Devon
Cow Cave is a scheduled limestone cave at Chudleigh Rocks containing significant Paleolithic deposits and investigated in a major 2016 excavation.
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Craigs Dolmen
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…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Creswell Crags
Derbyshire
Its cave walls carry the northernmost Ice Age art yet found in Europe, engraved by people who timed their work to the one shaft of sunlight that re…
- Near Bakewell
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cuckoo Stone
Wiltshire
A squat sarsen lying forgotten in a field turned out, on excavation, to have replaced a wooden post on the very same spot before 2000 BC: a rare ph…
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Culbone Stone
Somerset
An early medieval cross-marked stone found lying flat in wartime and stood up again: with one arm of its cross running outside the circle.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cullerlie stone circle
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…
- Near Echt
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cummeen Court Cairn
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…
- Near Sligo
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Cursus Barrows
Wiltshire
Ground-penetrating radar in 2010 found a hidden ditched enclosure with a possible timber circle beneath one of the barrows: briefly reported as Sto…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Cwmystwyth Mines
Ceredigion
A single hillside preserves nearly every phase of British metal mining in one place, from Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first s…
- Near Cwmystwyth
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Day House Lane Stone Circle
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…
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Devil's Arrows
North Yorkshire
The Devil’s Arrows are among Britain’s tallest standing stones and an exceptional lowland Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Devil's Humps, Stoughton
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.
- Near Stoughton
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Devil's Jumps, Treyford
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.
- Near Treyford
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Devil's Lapful
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.
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Devil's Quoits
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…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Din Dryfol
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…
- Near Rhosneigr
- Some walking
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Din Lligwy
Isle of Anglesey
Roman-period pottery mended with iron clamps and evidence of on-site ironworking sit inside walls that still stand almost to their original height…
- Near Moelfre
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Dinas Emrys
Gwynedd
Dinas Emrys is a post-Roman hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement: and later castle site where excavated ramparts and pool intertwine with the fo…
- Near Beddgelert
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Doll Tor
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…
- Near Bakewell
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Dolmen of the Four Maols
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…
- Near Ballina
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Dooey's Cairn
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.
- Near Cushendall
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Dorset Cursus
Dorset
The Dorset Cursus is Britain’s longest known cursus monument, a ten-kilometre Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) earthwo…
- Near Martin
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Dowth
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.
- Near Drogheda
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Drombeg stone circle
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.
- Near Glandore
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Drove Cottage Henge
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…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Drumtroddan standing stones
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…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Duddo Five Stones
Northumberland
Duddo Five Stones is a weathered Northumberland stone circle whose surviving pink sandstone pillars and recovered sockets reveal a larger original…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Duggleby Howe
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…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Duloe stone circle
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…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Dùn Galláin
Argyll and Bute
The fort's own name, Fort of the Strangers, and a battle remembered on the beach just to its north, seem to point at the same event from two differ…
- Near Scalasaig
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Dun Guaidhre
Argyll and Bute
A small Iron Age (the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest) stronghold on Islay whose very name is entangled with a Norse-Gaelic king w…
- Near Kilmeny
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Dunasead Castle
County Cork
A modest 1620s tower house masks a much longer story: a Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) ringfort, a Norman keep, and two…
- Near Baltimore
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Dunkery Hill
Somerset
The highest ground on Exmoor and in Somerset, rising to 519 metres above moorland and the Bristol Channel.
- Near Exford
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Dunnideer stone circle
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…
- Near Insch
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Durrington Walls
Wiltshire
Radiocarbon dates place its great timber circle within decades of Stonehenge's first stone phase, making this the likely home of the people who act…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Easter Aquhorthies stone circle
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…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Easthill stone circle
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…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Elva Plain Stone Circle
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.
- Near Millom
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Fairy Toot
Somerset
An oval burial mound at Nempnett Thrubwell, where a long mound still covers the chamber built for the dead.
- Near Nempnett Thrubwell
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Falkner's Circle
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.
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Farranahineeny Stone Row
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…
- Near Macroom
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ferrybridge Henge
West Yorkshire
An Iron Age sword scabbard and a Roman coin were found in the inner ditch: the place appears to have been kept as a shrine for two thousand years a…
- Near Ferrybridge
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Figsbury Ring
Wiltshire
A monument that has resisted classification for a century: what looks like an Iron Age hillfort conceals an inner ditch many now read as the mark o…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Finnis souterrain
County Down
Finnis souterrain (a stone-lined tunnel dug beneath a settlement) is a rare public-access ninth-century underground passage system whose dry-stone…
- Near Dromara
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Fir Clump Stone Circle
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…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Five Marys
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…
- Near Chaldon Herring
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Five Wells
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…
- Near Bakewell
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Crossing or structure · Prehistoric
Flag Fen
Cambridgeshire
More than 60,000 timbers, driven into the peat to carry a kilometre-long causeway across open water, with weapons and jewellery deliberately broken…
- Near Peterborough
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Flowerdown Barrows
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…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Freston causewayed enclosure
suffolk
Digging the ditches would have taken between 2,800 and 4,200 person-days. Ploughing has since levelled every bank, perhaps two thousand years ago.
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Fulham Palace
Greater London
Fulham Palace records more than a millennium of London bishops’ stewardship, combining medieval palace fabric, England’s largest domestic moat and…
- Near Fulham
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Funzie Girt
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.…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Gamelands stone circle
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…
- Near Kendal
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Gatton Park
Surrey
Ten flagstones quarried near Thurso carry 2,000 years of quotation across a park shaped by Capability Brown: a millennium monument standing inside…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Gaulstown Portal Tomb
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.
- Near Waterford
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Giant's Ring
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…
- Near Belfast
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Gib Hill
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…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Girdle Stanes
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…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Glantane East
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…
- Near Millstreet
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Glebe Cairn
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…
- Near Kilmartin
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Glenquicken stone circle
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…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Goonhilly Downs
Cornwall
Goonhilly Downs combines protected serpentinite heath with one of Britain's defining satellite-station landscapes, showing scientific infrastructur…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Gough's Cave
Somerset
A long cave in Cheddar Gorge with large chambers, an underground river and evidence of very early occupation.
- Near Cheddar
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Granard Motte
County Longford
At 163 metres above sea level this is Ireland's highest motte, the great earth mound at the heart of an early castle, raised by a Norman knight dir…
- Near Granard
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Grange stone circle
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…
- Near Limerick
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Granny Kempock Stone
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…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Great Langdale
Cumbria
The scree below Pike of Stickle supplied a type of polished stone axe traded as far as Orkney and Cornwall, making this valley a working hub of Neo…
- Near Ambleside
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Great Wilbraham causewayed enclosure
Cambridgeshire
Two ditches drawn as near-perfect circles, a rare geometric variant among Britain's causewayed enclosures, laid out beside a Cambridgeshire fen som…
- Near Great Wilbraham
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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Grime's Graves
Norfolk
Grime’s Graves is Britain’s largest known Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) flint-mining complex, with at least 433 shafts th…
- Near Weeting
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Grimspound
Devon
Grimspound is a scheduled late Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) Dartmoor settlement whose hut circles, enclosing wal…
- Rough ground
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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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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Hackpen, Warren & Gramp's Hill Downs
Oxfordshire
Seventy-one hectares of protected biological downland at Letcombe Bassett.
- Near Letcombe Bassett
- 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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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Harold's Stones
monmouthshire
Three puddingstone monoliths in a row eleven metres long, raised in the Bronze Age: the era of metalworking from about 2500 to 800 BC: and aligned…
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Harrow Hill, West Sussex
West Sussex
A flint mine of the Neolithic, the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain, of some 245 shafts, one of them proved 6.7 metres deep with six…
- Near Angmering
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Hawarden Castle (medieval)
Flintshire
Its capture one Easter morning in 1282 lit the fuse for the war that ended Welsh independence: a border stronghold whose fall reshaped a nation's f…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Hawk Stone
Oxfordshire
A Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) monolith whose polished hollow records centuries of hopeful hands, and whos…
- Some walking
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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
Heathery Burn Cave
County Durham
A single cave near Stanhope yielded over two hundred Late Bronze Age objects: gold, bronze, bone and pottery together: among the richest hoards of…
- Near Stanhope
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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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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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Settlement · Prehistoric
Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles
Isle of Anglesey
Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles are one of Wales’s best-preserved prehistoric (predating the written record in Britain) settlement groups, with recon…
- Near Holyhead
- Some walking
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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
Illauntannig Monastic Site
County Kerry
A cluster of beehive cells, oratories and a carved stone cross survives almost whole inside a drystone island wall: a rare complete early Christian…
- Near Dingle
- Rough ground
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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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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Kennet Avenue
Wiltshire
Excavation proved this double line of stones once ran two and a half kilometres between two Avebury monuments: and that most of it was deliberately…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Kents Cavern
Devon
Kents Cavern is one of Britain’s most important prehistoric (before any written account of Britain existed) sites: its deposits record deep geologi…
- Easy path
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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
King Arthur's Hall
Cornwall
King Arthur's Hall is a Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) rectangular stone enclosure on Bodmin Moor whose unusual water-fill…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
King Arthur's Round Table
Cumbria
Despite its legendary name, this is a genuine Neolithic, the late Stone Age, henge, a bank and ditch enclosing a circular space, one half of a pair…
- Near Penrith
- Easy path
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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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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Knap Hill
Wiltshire
This was the first causewayed enclosure ever recognised and excavated, the discovery that let archaeologists define a whole class of Neolithic (the…
- Some walking
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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Langdale axe industry
Cumbria
One in four polished stone axes ever examined in Britain was made from rock quarried on these fells: a single Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about…
- Near Ambleside
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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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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Leafield Castle
Oxfordshire
An 1828 dig into the mound turned up ancient coins, giving this quiet earthwork (a bank, ditch or mound shaped from soil rather than built in stone…
- Near Leafield
- Some walking
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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Leskernick Hill
Cornwall
Leskernick Hill preserves an exceptionally well-preserved Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) settlement landscape of houses, fields, cairns, stone ci…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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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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Settlement · Prehistoric
Lismore Fields
Derbyshire
Post holes in a Buxton field mark timber houses built by people who were just learning to grow grain: among the earliest farming evidence found any…
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Llansteffan Castle
Carmarthenshire
Its earthwork (a mound or ditch formed by moving soil, not by building) rings predate the stone castle by well over a thousand years, and the site…
- Near Llansteffan
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Lligwy Burial Chamber
isle-of-anglesey
A Neolithic chamber: of the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC: roofed by a single limestone slab of about 25 tonnes, resting on only three of…
- Near Moelfre
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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Long Man of Wilmington
East Sussex
The Long Man is one of England’s two major surviving human hill figures, but archaeological work now suggests this famous chalk-downland image is E…
- Near Wilmington
- 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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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Longstone of Minchinhampton
Gloucestershire
Longstone’s naturally pierced limestone links a surviving monolith with a local healing tradition, while nearby barrows and finds place it in an ol…
- Easy path
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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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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Loughbrickland Crannóg
County Down
Loughbrickland Crannóg is a Scheduled Bronze Age artificial island that brings prehistoric (from the era before writing arrived in these islands) s…
- Near Banbridge
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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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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Maen Llia
Powys
A diamond of Old Red Sandstone, twelve feet high, whose evening shadow reaches the river between April and September - which is probably the source…
- Near Ystradfellte
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Maen Madoc
Powys
A ten-foot stone beside a Roman road, inscribed for a man called Dervacus: and named after a Madoc nobody can identify.
- Near Ystradfellte
- Easy path
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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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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Mam Tor
Derbyshire
The summit rampart is being eaten by the hillside it stands on: the landslip behind the hill's "Shivering Mountain" nickname has been gnawing at th…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Marden Henge
Wiltshire
Built from earth and timber rather than stone, Britain's largest known henge shaped its boundary around the River Avon: a landscape logic unmatched…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Margam Castle
Neath Port Talbot
Margam Castle is a Grade I Tudor Revival house built by wealth from the early Port Talbot development, embedded in a 4,000-year estate landscape an…
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Martin Down Enclosure
Hampshire
This modest rectangular bank on Martin Down gave its name to an entire class of Bronze Age settlement: everything now called a "Martin Down style e…
- Near Winchester
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Mayburgh Henge
Cumbria
Its ring was raised from river cobbles rather than dug as a ditch-and-bank earthwork, a construction method that sets it apart from almost every ot…
- Near Penrith
- 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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Mên-an-Tol
Cornwall
Mên-an-Tol is Cornwall’s best-known holed stone, combining an enigmatic late Neolithic monument: from the first farming period in Britain, roughly…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Merdon Castle
Hampshire
A bishop's castle of the 1130s was raised inside a long-abandoned Iron Age hillfort, a defended settlement on high ground from the period before th…
- Near Winchester
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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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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Morgan's Hill Enclosure
Wiltshire
A near-perfect square of bank and ditch on open downland, one of a family of prehistoric (before any written account of Britain existed) farming en…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Mote of Mark
Dumfries and Galloway
The Mote of Mark was a high-status sixth- and seventh-century fortified workshop in Rheged, with imported goods and evidence for skilled metalworking.
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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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Settlement · Prehistoric
Must Farm
Cambridgeshire
A Bronze Age village that burned, collapsed into a river and was sealed in oxygen-starved silt: preserving whole roof timbers, textiles and meals i…
- Near Peterborough
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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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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Nine Maidens stone row
Cornwall
Nine Maidens is a late Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) Cornish stone row whose nine irregular stones align to…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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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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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Old Sarum Castle
Wiltshire
A Norman castle with a timber tower on an earth mound and a walled yard, raised inside a defended hilltop settlement dating from 400 BC, it once he…
- 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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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Penrhos Feilw Standing Stones
Isle of Anglesey
Penrhos Feilw’s paired Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) stones are an enigmatic coastal landmark on Holy Island, their deliberate…
- Near Holyhead
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Pentre Ifan
pembrokeshire
A sixteen-tonne capstone rests on the tips of three slender uprights, two and a half metres off the ground. One reading is that it was never meant…
- Near Pentre Ifan
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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Pixie's Hole
Devon
Pixie’s Hole is a scheduled Devon limestone cave whose late twentieth-century excavation revealed a rich Late Upper Palaeolithic concentration bene…
- Near Exeter
- Rough ground
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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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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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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Rathdown Castle
County Wicklow
Excavation traces continuous use of this ravine-side site from the Neolithic to a Norman stronghold burned in 1301: one place spanning six thousand…
- Near Wicklow
- Rough ground
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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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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Robin Hood's Ball
Wiltshire
A single-causeway enclosure built centuries before Stonehenge existed, its lone entrance the rarest layout among Britain's Neolithic (the late Ston…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Robin Hood's Stone
Merseyside
Robin Hood’s Stone is a scheduled Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) standing stone in Liverpool, preserving cup-marked prehistoric (before written r…
- Near Lincoln
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Rockingham Castle
Northamptonshire
A working royal fortress for four centuries that became a family home for five more: its D-shaped gatehouse and earthworks still trace that entire…
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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Rotherley Down Settlement
Wiltshire
A farming settlement lived on this hilltop for roughly four centuries, then Victorian archaeology's most methodical excavator carved his findings s…
- 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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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Rudbaxton Rath
Pembrokeshire
A ring-shaped enclosure and ringed keep, raised as a defence in the centuries before Rome arrived.
- Near Crundale
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Rudston Monolith
East Riding of Yorkshire
At over 25 feet, it is the tallest standing stone in Britain: and the Norman parish church beside it was built on already-sacred ground, not by coi…
- Near Beverley
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Ruthin Castle
Denbighshire
A red sandstone stronghold built by a Welsh prince against the English crown that later imprisoned a Catholic martyr and hosted a future king the n…
- Near Denbigh
- Easy path
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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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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Scarborough Castle
North Yorkshire
A single headland was fortified and refortified for over two thousand years running, from an early defended settlement to a Second World War listen…
- 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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Settlement · Prehistoric
Shearplace Hill Enclosure
Dorset
Shearplace Hill Enclosure is a scheduled Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) farmstead where excavated round houses, trackways and do…
- Near Cerne Abbas
- 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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Silbury Hill
Wiltshire
At 39.3 metres it is the tallest prehistoric mound in Europe, built with a labour investment: some 18 million man-hours: that rivals an Egyptian py…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Skirrid Fawr
Monmouthshire
A hill reputedly split by the Crucifixion drew Catholics to secret Mass at its ruined summit chapel for two centuries when that worship was outlawed.
- Near Abergavenny
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
South Lodge Camp
Wiltshire
A century after Pitt Rivers first dug here, re-excavation overturned his own conclusions: hollows he took for natural features turned out to be Bro…
- Some walking
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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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Sacred place · Prehistoric
St Bartholomew's Church, Barrow
Cheshire
A Cheshire parish church rooted in a Knights Hospitaller preceptory, where medieval stonework, Georgian additions and Victorian restoration meet in…
- Near Great Barrow
- Easy path
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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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Sacred place · Prehistoric
St Mary the Virgin Church, Caerau, Cardiff
Cardiff
A medieval church built directly on the ramparts of an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) hillfort (an upland enclosur…
- Near Caerau
- 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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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Stapeley Hill
Shropshire
A hill carrying a stone circle, a standing stone, a ring cairn and two summit cairns: and farmed in the 1930s by a holder of the Victoria Cross.
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Star Carr
North Yorkshire
A hut floor, a wooden platform and 21 red deer skull headdresses survived 11,000 years in waterlogged peat: the fullest picture anywhere in Britain…
- Easy path
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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Stonehenge Avenue
Wiltshire
At its river end, a 2009 dig found a ring of pits: Bluestonehenge: that held no stones at all, only unanswered questions about what stood there bef…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Stonehenge Cursus
Wiltshire
Radiocarbon dating shows this three-kilometre earthwork (a bank or ditch dug and heaped from the ground itself, with no masonry) was already centur…
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Stonehenge Landscape
Wiltshire
Almost 400 scheduled monuments beyond the stones themselves: cursus (a long Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) earthwork (bank…
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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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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Sturminster Newton Castle
Dorset
Sturminster Newton Castle uniquely combines an Iron Age, the centuries before Rome arrived, promontory fort, a defensible enclosure on a projecting…
- Near Sturminster Newton
- 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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Crossing or structure · Prehistoric
Sweet Track
Somerset
Built in 3807 BC and used for about ten years before rising water ended it. A pumping system now keeps the surviving timber wet.
- 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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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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Sacred place · Prehistoric
The Bull Ring
Derbyshire
One of the few Peak District henges known to have held a stone setting inside it: dismantled, by local account, to floor a canal-age tramway.
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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
The Gop
Flintshire
Second only to Silbury Hill in scale, this vast stone mound has never given up a burial chamber: leaving its true purpose, tomb, watchtower, or for…
- 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 Longstones
Wiltshire
The only stones left standing from a rectangular prehistoric (from the era before writing arrived in these islands) cove, and possibly the last tra…
- 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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Carved stone · Prehistoric
The Pipers
Cornwall
The Pipers near Minions are a pair of standing stones closely associated with the Hurlers circles, anchoring a Bodmin Moor ceremonial complex along…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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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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Fortified place · Prehistoric
The Rofft
cheshire
The Rofft began as an early fortified enclosure and later became a castle near Marford; quarrying erased its earthworks, leaving names as the clear…
- Near Chester
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
The Sanctuary
Wiltshire
Excavation found a young girl buried beside the inner stone circle, her body aligned with the sunrise on the equinox, in a monument rebuilt through…
- Easy path
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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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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Thornborough Henges
North Yorkshire
Three colossal bank-and-ditch circles laid out to echo Orion's Belt survived a decade of gravel-quarry battles before passing whole into public han…
- 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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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Tinboeth Castle
Powys
A Mortimer castle built inside an Iron Age hillfort, which served as its outer bailey: and abandoned because peace made it pointless.
- Near Llanbister
- Rough ground
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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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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Tolvan holed stone
Cornwall
Cornwall's largest holed stone, a Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain) monument altered by nineteenth-century removal bu…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Uffington White Horse
Oxfordshire
A hill figure 110 metres long, cut as deep trenches packed with crushed white chalk, older than the written record here.
- Near Uffington
- Some walking
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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 · 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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Warren Hill, Bournemouth
Dorset
Warren Hill is the elevated heart of Hengistbury Head, where rich Stone Age archaeology and a protected heathland habitat meet expansive coastal vi…
- Near Christchurch
- 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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Wayland's Smithy
Oxfordshire
A timber tomb was dismantled and rebuilt in stone within perhaps fifty years, capturing a Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) c…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Wenallt Camp
Cardiff
A modest earthwork enclosure: a mound or ditch formed by moving soil, not by building: on a wooded Cardiff hillside, its bank and ditch and a level…
- Near Rhiwbina
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Werthyr standing stone
Isle of Anglesey
The Werthyr standing stone west of Amlwch stands 3.1 metres high; reports of a second upright and capstone preserve a fragmentary record of a once…
- Near Amlwch
- Some walking
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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Whitehawk Camp
East Sussex
Whitehawk Camp is one of Britain’s earliest confirmed causewayed enclosures, preserving evidence of late Stone Age gathering, deposition and constr…
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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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Minor monument · Prehistoric
Whiteleaf Cross
Buckinghamshire
A vast chalk cross cut into a Buckinghamshire hillside whose age and purpose have never been established: one of England's few hill figures with no…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Whittington Tump
Worcestershire
A single earthwork: a bank, ditch or mound shaped from soil rather than built in stone: carries four distinct occupations: a mound from from the er…
- 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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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Wilbury Hill Camp
Hertfordshire
Its earthwork rings have vanished from the ground entirely, surviving only as ghostly cropmarks in aerial photographs: one link in a chain of six m…
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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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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Windmill Hill, Avebury
Wiltshire
At 21 acres it is the largest known Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) causewayed enclosure (a Neolithic enclosure whose ditch…
- Some walking
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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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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Woodhenge
Wiltshire
The timber rings share Stonehenge's scale and midsummer alignment almost exactly, evidence that wood, not just stone, could carry serious ceremonia…
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Prehistoric
Woodhey Cross
Cheshire
Woodhey Cross is a rare surviving late-medieval stepped cross that remains in its original Cheshire roadside position, preserving a small but subst…
- Near Woodhey Green
- 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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More places
Briefer entries: recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Aideen's Grave
County Dublin
Its enormous, probably locally quarried capstone makes Aideen’s Grave a rare tangible test of construction in the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500…
- Near Dublin
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Altanagh
County Tyrone
Altanagh’s scheduled burial mound preserves cordoned urn burials dated to 1890–1450 BC, giving a County Tyrone townland a firmly evidenced Bronze A…
- Near Coleraine
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Altar Stone (Stonehenge)
Wiltshire
The Altar Stone lies flat at the centre of Stonehenge, a slab of purplish-green micaceous sandstone measuring 4.9 metres long, 1 metre wide and hal…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Annaghmare Court Tomb
County Armagh
Excavated with unusual care in the 1960s, its drystone walling and chambers survive largely undisturbed: a rare case where a tomb with an open cour…
- Near Newry
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Antynanum
County Antrim
Antynanum’s scheduled late Stone Age burial monument preserves a long mound of stones, court and contrasting burial galleries in County Antrim, giv…
- Near Ballymena
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ardristan standing stones
County Carlow
Ardristan standing stones are a paired County Carlow monument whose grooved larger menhir survives on either side of a modern road near Tullow.
- Near Carlow
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Auchagallon Stone Circle
North Ayrshire
Auchagallon is a fifteen-stone Arran monument whose circle and central cairn, a mound of piled stones covering a burial, preserve evidence of Stone…
- Near Machrie
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ault, Northern Ireland
County Antrim
Ault preserves a Scheduled wedge-shaped burial monument whose mound of stones, kerb and chamber reveal a carefully built ancient tomb within County…
- Near Ballymena
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Aveline's Hole
Somerset
Britain's earliest scientifically dated cemetery and its largest known assemblage of Mesolithic (the middle Stone Age, roughly 9000–4000 BC) human…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Avinagillan standing stone
Argyll and Bute
A solitary standing stone raised somewhere in prehistory, its silent presence over the Kintyre shoreline outlasting any record of who put it there…
- Near Campbeltown
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ballinran Court Tomb
County Down
Ballinran shows how excavation recovered the plan, coastal orientation and burial deposits of a largely destroyed court tomb, a tomb built thousand…
- Near Newry
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ballylumford Dolmen
County Antrim
A four-thousand-year-old portal tomb (a Neolithic tomb of upright stones carrying a single great capstone) stands not in a field or forest but in t…
- Near Larne
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ballynageeragh Portal Tomb
County Waterford
A late-1930s dig found cremated bone, flint and charcoal sealed in the chamber, then a hurried 1940 rebuild fixed the ancient stones in place with…
- Near Waterford
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Bant's Carn
Cornwall
A well-preserved Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) entrance grave on St Mary's, excavated in 1900 and restored from the or…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Barsalloch Fort
Dumfries and Galloway
The site carries two widely separated chapters of the human past. Aspects of Barsalloch Fort are thought to date to the Mesolithic period, placing…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Beenalaght
County Cork
Six standing stones set out in a single line across open pasture, carrying a name that simply counts them: An Seisear, "The Six."
- Near Mallow
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Benie Hoose
Shetland Islands
Benie Hoose lies in Nesting parish, towards the north-east of Whalsay, laid out in the unusual form of a figure of eight rather than the single rou…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Blackwater Castle
County Cork
Blackwater Castle layers a Norman fortress over a much older promontory fort: a headland cut off by ramparts to make a defensible enclosure: preser…
- Near Lismore
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Bohonagh
County Cork
Bohonagh is a Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) axial stone circle with tall portal stones, a nearby cup-marked boulder bu…
- Near Clonakilty
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Boscawen-Un
Cornwall
Boscawen-Ûn is a Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) stone circle whose nineteen-stone ellipse, distinctive central slab and…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Bosiliack Barrow
Cornwall
Bosiliack Barrow is a rare Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) entrance grave of a form otherwise associated with…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Boswens Menhir
Cornwall
Boswens Menhir is a compact but distinctive Penwith standing stone, with a vestigial cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) and c…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Botallack Mine
Cornwall
Engine houses on the cliffs mark a Cornish mine whose workings extended beneath the Atlantic and later formed part of a World Heritage Site.
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Breeny More Stone Circle
County Cork
Breeny More is a National Monument axial stone circle with four boulder burials overlooking Bantry Bay, preserving a distinctive middle Bronze Age…
- Near Ballineen
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Brown Willy
Cornwall
Cornwall's highest hill carries two cairns whose early Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) setting gives Bodmin Moor a prehi…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Calf House
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…
- Near Cavan
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Callanish II
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…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Callanish III
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…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Callanish VIII
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…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Carbury Castle, County Kildare
County Kildare
Carbury Castle layers a Norman castle mound, medieval fortress and Colley manor on the ancestral landscape of the Dukes of Wellington.
- Near Carbury
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Carn Ban, Arran
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…
- Near Kilmory
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Carraig á Mhaistin stone
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…
- Near Kinsale
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Carricknagat Megalithic Tombs
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…
- Near Manorhamilton
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Carrigans, County Tyrone
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…
- Near Omagh
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cat Stane
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…
- Near Edinburgh
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Cefn Bryn
Swansea
Over sixty stone heaps lie under the bracken. Most are field clearance; three excavated north-west of Arthur's Stone are burial monuments.
- Near Reynoldston
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Chapel Carn Brea
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…
- Near St Just
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Chûn Quoit
Cornwall
A remarkably intact Neolithic chamber tomb: from the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC: whose capstone still stands in its original position…
- Near Pendeen
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Clodagh Standing Stones
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…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cloghanmore
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…
- Near Carndonagh
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Coffin Stone
Kent
The Coffin Stone is a striking Medway megalith whose possible long barrow, a prehistoric burial mound, origin remains unresolved after excavation s…
- Near Aylesford
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Condolden
Cornwall
Tintagel parish's highest point, where an unexcavated Bronze Age barrow: roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread, and a prehistoric burial mo…
- Near Tintagel
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Corick
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.
- Near Magherafelt
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Craddock Moor stone circle
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…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Crawley Edge Cairns
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…
- Near Bishop Auckland
- Some walking
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Dorman's Island, Whitefield Loch
Dumfries and Galloway
Dorman's Island is a crannog (a dwelling built on an artificial island in a loch) in Whitefield Loch, in the parish of Old Luce in the Machars peni…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Drizzlecombe
Devon
Drizzlecombe gathers one of Dartmoor’s richest prehistoric (predating the written record in Britain) landscapes: Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, w…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Eightercua
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…
- Near Waterville
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Emblance Downs stone circles
Cornwall
A closely spaced pair of ruined Bodmin Moor stone circles, preserving an unusual double-monument arrangement beside other prehistoric (before any w…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Fernacre
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…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Fethaland
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…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Finn McCools Fingers
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…
- Near Cavan
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Flagstones Enclosure
Dorset
Flagstones is a late Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) interrupted-ditch enclosure near Dorchester, with burial…
- Near Dorchester
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Freughlough
County Tyrone
Freughlough’s Scheduled standing stone survives at the edge of a housing estate, bringing a protected prehistoric (from the era before writing arri…
- Near Cookstown
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Giant's Grave, Cumbria
Cumbria
Two standing stones at the foot of Black Combe carry rare prehistoric (before any written account of Britain existed) cup and ring carvings, one st…
- Near Penrith
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Goffers Knoll
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.
- Near Royston
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Goodaver stone circle
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…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Goward Dolmen
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…
- Near Newry
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Grannie stone
North Ayrshire
The Grannie Stone is an enduring Irvine river landmark whose uncertain origin: glacial erratic or last stone-circle survivor: reveals how folklore,…
- Near Irvine
- 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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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Haughey's Fort
Armagh
Haughey's Fort is a large late Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) hilltop enclosure near Armagh, whose concentric ditches preserve an earlier ceremon…
- Near Armagh
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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Hengistbury Head
Dorset
Hengistbury Head is an internationally important coastal archaeological landscape, recording human activity from the Upper Palaeolithic through an…
- Near Christchurch
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Hensbarrow Beacon
Cornwall
Hensbarrow Beacon combines a medieval stannary centre, a scheduled beacon cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) and the mapping…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Holkham Camp
norfolk
An oval enclosure on a sandy spit, reachable only by eye: the site is not normally walkable, and is watched from a bird hide in the woods to the no…
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Howick house
Northumberland
Howick House is an exceptionally early Mesolithic (the middle Stone Age, roughly 9000–4000 BC) dwelling site whose substantial post holes, hearths,…
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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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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Kilcroagh, County Tyrone
County Tyrone
Kilcroagh combines a small Tyrone townland’s landscape history with the striking quartz White Stone, a scheduled monument (a site protected by law…
- Near Omagh
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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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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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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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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Leper Stone
Essex
The Leper Stone is a large sarsen near Newport whose association with a medieval leper hospital and possible prehistoric (predating the written rec…
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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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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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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Mount Sandel Fort
County Londonderry
Mount Sandel Fort places an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) stronghold and John de Courcy’s medieval residence besi…
- Near Coleraine
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Mount Sandel Mesolithic site
County Londonderry
Mount Sandel is one of Ireland’s oldest archaeological sites and preserves the country’s only confirmed Mesolithic (the middle Stone Age, roughly 9…
- Near Coleraine
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Moyadam
County Antrim
Moyadam joins a medievally attested place-name, Maigh Doinn or “Donn’s plain”, with a surviving standing stone from before written records reached…
- Near Antrim
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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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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Oughtboy
County Tyrone
Oughtboy turns an Irish hill-name and scheduled stone alignments into a single landscape story, where language, terrain and protected archaeology r…
- Near Omagh
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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
Seahenge
Norfolk
Seahenge is a uniquely preserved early Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) timber circle, built in 2049 BC, whose ritua…
- Near Holme-next-the-Sea
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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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Carved stone · Prehistoric
St Breock Downs Monolith
Cornwall
St Breock Downs Monolith is Cornwall's largest prehistoric menhir: a standing stone from before any written account of Britain existed: a re-erecte…
- Some walking
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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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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Stalldown Barrow
Devon
Stalldown Barrow is a Devon megalithic site whose long stone row contributes to the wider prehistoric (predating the written record in Britain) mon…
- Near Harford
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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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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Swanscombe Palaeolithic site
Kent
The Swanscombe Palaeolithic site preserves one of Britain’s two Lower Palaeolithic human fossil finds alongside Clactonian and Acheulean tool indus…
- Near Swanscombe
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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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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Three Brothers, Lancashire
Lancashire
The Three Brothers reward a walk above Morecambe Bay with an unresolved question: are these shaped monuments or boulders carried here by ice?
- Near Warton
- Some walking
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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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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Tinnahinch Castle
County Carlow
Tinnahinch Castle is a River Barrow tower house built to control a crossing, retaining machicolation (an opening in a parapet floor for dropping mi…
- Near Graiguenamanagh
- 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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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Trevelgue Head
Cornwall
Trevelgue Head is an Iron Age promontory fort: a coastal spur defended by banks thrown across its neck, the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman…
- Near Newquay
- 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
White Horse Stone
Kent
The White Horse Stone is a scheduled Blue Bell Hill sarsen with possible Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) roots, later folkl…
- Near Blue Bell Hill
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
White's Castle
County Kildare
White’s Castle compresses Athy’s changing civic life into one river tower: a guarded crossing, a harsh gaol, a barracks and a private home.
- Near Athy
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Woodstock Castle (Athy)
County Kildare
Woodstock preserves the river crossing that preceded bridge-centred Athy, with a hall-keep remodelled for firearms then contested in the Confederat…
- Near Athy
- Rough ground
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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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