There are many prehistoric sites and structures of interest remaining from

prehistoric Britain Several species of humans have intermittently occupied Great Britain for almost a million years. The earliest evidence of human occupation around 900,000 years ago is at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast, with stone tools and footprints prob ...

, spanning the

Stone Age The Stone Age was a broad prehistory, prehistoric period during which Rock (geology), stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years and ended b ...

Bronze Age The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...

and

Iron Age The Iron Age () is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. It has also been considered as the final age of the three-age division starting with prehistory (before recorded history) and progre ...

. Among the most important are the Wiltshire sites around Stonehenge and Avebury, which are designated as a

World Heritage Site World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection under an treaty, international treaty administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance. The sites are judged to contain "cultural and natural ...

Structures and sites

Agricultural structures, mines and roads

* Bathampton Down,

earth enclosure with

round barrow A round barrow is a type of tumulus and is one of the most common types of archaeological monuments. Although concentrated in Europe, they are found in many parts of the world, probably because of their simple construction and universal purpose. ...

s in the area. *

Bindon Hill Bindon Hill is an extensive Iron Age earthworks (engineering), earthwork enclosing a coastal hill area on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth Cove in Dorset, England, about west of Swanage, about south west of Wareham, Dorset, Wareham, and abou ...

, Iron Age earth enclosure. *

Great Orme The Great Orme () is a limestone headland on the north coast of Wales, north-west of the town of Llandudno. Referred to as ''Cyngreawdr Fynydd'' by the 12th-century poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr, its English name derives from the Old Norse word for ...

, Bronze Age copper mines and an Iron Age

hill fort A hillfort is a type of fortification, fortified refuge or defended settlement located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. They are typical of the late Bronze Age Europe, European Bronze Age and Iron Age Europe, Iron Age. So ...

. *

Grime's Graves Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex in Norfolk, England. It lies north east from Brandon, Suffolk in the East of England. It was worked between 2600 and 2300 BCE, although production may have continued throug ...

Neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

flint mining complex. *

The Ridgeway The Ridgeway is a ridgeway or ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road. The section clearly identified as an ancient trackway extends from Wiltshire along the chalk ridge of the Berkshire Downs to the River Thames at the Gori ...

, ancient

trackway Historic roads (or historic trails in the US and Canada) are paths or routes that have historical importance due to their use over a period of time. Examples exist from prehistoric times until the early 20th century. They include ancient track ...

. *

Sweet Track The Sweet Track is an ancient trackway, or causeway, in the Somerset Levels, England, named after its finder, Ray Sweet. It was built in 3807 BC (determined using dendrochronology – tree-ring dating) and is the second-oldest timber track ...

, ancient

causeway A causeway is a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water". It can be constructed of earth, masonry, wood, or concrete. One of the earliest known wooden causeways is the Sweet T ...

. * Tarr Steps, late Bronze Age

clapper bridge A clapper bridge is an ancient form of bridge found on the moors of the English West Country (Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor and Exmoor) and in other upland areas of the United Kingdom including Snowdonia and Anglesey, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, L ...

Burial structures

Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire Arthur's Stone is a Neolithic chambered tomb, or dolmen, in Herefordshire, England. It is situated on the ridge line of a hill overlooking both the Golden Valley, Herefordshire and the Wye Valley. The tomb dates from 3700 BC – 2700 BC. Locat ...

, Neolithic chambered tomb. * Barclodiad y Gawres, Neolithic cruciform passage grave. *

Belas Knap Belas Knap is a Neolithic, chambered long barrow situated on Cleeve Hill, near Cheltenham and Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire, England. It is a type of monument known as the Cotswold Severn Cairn, all of which have a similar trapezoid shape, a ...

, Neolithic

long barrow Long barrows are a style of monument constructed across Western Europe in the fifth and fourth millennia BCE, during the Early Neolithic period. Typically constructed from earth and either timber or stone, those using the latter material repres ...

. *

Bryn Celli Ddu Bryn Celli Ddu () is a prehistoric site on the Wales, Welsh island of Anglesey located near Llanddaniel Fab. Its Welsh placenames, name means 'the mound in the dark grove'. It was archaeologically excavated between 1928 and 1929. Visitors can ge ...

, Bronze Age

passage grave A passage grave or passage tomb consists of one or more burial chambers covered in earth or stone and having a narrow access passage made of large stones. These structures usually date from the Neolithic Age and are found largely in Western Europ ...

on the site of a Neolithic

stone circle A stone circle is a ring of megalithic standing stones. Most are found in Northwestern Europe – especially Stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany – and typically date from the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, with most being ...

and

henge A henge can be one of three related types of Neolithic Earthworks (archaeology), earthwork. The essential characteristic of all three is that they feature a ring-shaped bank and ditch, with the ditch inside the bank. Because the internal ditches ...

. *

Clava cairn The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of three cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness in Scotland. There are about 50 cairns of this type in an area round about Inverness. They ...

, Bronze Age circular

chamber tomb A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures. In the case of individual burials, the chamber is thought to signify a higher status for the interred than a simple grave (burial), grave. Built from Rock (geology), rock or som ...

cairn A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word ''cairn'' comes from the (plural ). Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes. In prehistory, t ...

. * Devil's Lapful, Neolithic long cairn in Northumberland. *

Duggleby Howe Duggleby Howe (also known as Howe Hill, Duggleby) is one of the largest round barrows in Britain, located on the southern side of the Great Wold Valley in the county of North Yorkshire (historically the East Riding of Yorkshire), and is one of f ...

, round barrow. * Dartmoor kistvaens, burial tombs or cists found in

Dartmoor Dartmoor is an upland area in southern Devon, South West England. The moorland and surrounding land has been protected by National Park status since 1951. Dartmoor National Park covers . The granite that forms the uplands dates from the Carb ...

in Devon. * Fairy Toot, oval barrow. * Five Marys, group of round barrows in Dorset. *

Julliberrie's Grave Julliberrie's Grave, also known as The Giant's Grave or The Grave, is an unchambered long barrow located near to the village of Chilham in the South East England, south-eastern English county of Kent. Probably constructed in the 4th millennium ...

, unchambered earthen Neolithic

. * King's Quoit, Neolithic burial chamber in Pembrokeshire. * Lanyon Quoit,

dolmen A dolmen, () or portal tomb, is a type of single-chamber Megalith#Tombs, megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the Late Neolithic period (4000 ...

. * Lugbury Long Barrow, Neolithic burial mound in Wiltshire. *

Maeshowe Maeshowe (or Maes Howe; ) is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It was probably built around . In the archaeology of Scotland, it gives its name to the Maeshowe type of chambered cairn, which ...

, Neolithic

chambered cairn A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a sizeable (usually stone) chamber around and over which a cairn of stones was constructed. Some chambered cairns are also passage-graves. They are fo ...

and passage grave. * Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery, group of round barrows in Dorset. * Pentre Ifan, Neolithic dolmen. * The Poind and his Man, burial mound and standing stone in Northumberland. * Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery, group of round barrows in Dorset. * Seven Barrows, site of

bowl barrow A bowl barrow is a type of burial mound or tumulus. A barrow is a mound of earth used to cover a tomb. The bowl barrow gets its name from its resemblance to an upturned bowl. Related terms include ''cairn circle'', ''cairn ring'', ''howe'', ''ker ...

s, bell barrows, saucer barrows and disc barrows. * Spinsters' Rock, Neolithic dolmen. * St Lythans, Neolithic dolmen. * Stoney Littleton Long Barrow, Neolithic chambered tomb. * Thickthorn Down Long Barrows, Neolithic long barrows in Dorset. * Three Brothers of Grugith, Neolithic dolmen in Cornwall. *

Tinkinswood Tinkinswood or its full name Tinkinswood Burial Chamber (), also known as Castell Carreg, Llech-y-Filiast and Maes-y-Filiast, is a megalithic Chamber tomb, burial chamber, built around 4000 BC, during the Neolithic period, in the Vale of Glamo ...

, Neolithic dolmen. * Trethevy Quoit, Neolithic burial chamber. *

Wayland's Smithy Wayland's Smithy is an Early Neolithic chambered long barrow located near the village of Ashbury in the south-central English county of Oxfordshire. The barrow is believed to have been completed around 3430 BCE by pastoral communities shortl ...

, Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb. *

West Kennet Long Barrow The West Kennet Long Barrow, also known as South Long Barrow, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Probably constructed in the thirty-seventh century BC, during Britain's Early ...

, Neolithic chambered long barrow. * Wor Barrow, Neolithic long barrow in Dorset.

Causewayed enclosures

* Barkhale Camp, West Sussex * Coombe Hill * Flagstones Enclosure, Dorset * Hembury * Robin Hood's Ball *

Stonehenge Stonehenge is a prehistoric Megalith, megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around high, wide, and weighing around 25 tons, to ...

* Windmill Hill * Whitesheet Hill, Wiltshire

Fortifications

Hill forts

* Badbury Rings, Iron Age

. *

Barbury Castle Barbury Castle is a Scheduled monument, scheduled hillfort in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several such forts found along the ancient The Ridgeway, Ridgeway route. The site, which lies within the Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beau ...

, Iron Age hill fort. * Bat's Castle, Iron Age hill fort. * Beacon Hill, late Bronze Age hill fort. * Berry Castle, Iron Age hill fort * Black Ball Camp, Iron Age hill fort *

Blackbury Camp Blackbury Camp, also known as Blackbury Castle, is an Iron Age hill fort in Devon, England. It is managed by English Heritage. Location Blackbury Camp is situated to the south west of Southleigh, Devon. It is to the west of Colyton, Devon, C ...

, Iron Age hill fort. * Blacker's Hill, Iron Age hill fort. * Brean Down, Iron Age hill fort. * Brent Knoll, Iron Age hill fort. * Burledge Hill, Iron Age hill fort. * Bury Castle, Iron Age hill fort. * Cadbury Camp, Iron Age hill fort. * Cadbury Castle, Iron Age hill fort. * Cadbury Hill, Iron Age hill fort. * Cannington Camp, Bronze and Iron Age hill fort *

Castell Dinas Brân Castell Dinas Brân is a medieval castle, built by the Princes of Powys Fadog, which occupies a prominent hilltop site above the town of Llangollen in Denbighshire, Wales. The presently visible stone castle was probably built in the 1260s by ...

, Iron Age hill fort. *

Castell Henllys Castell Henllys ( Welsh, "castle of the old court") is an archaeological site near Nevern in north Pembrokeshire, Wales. The Iron Age hillfort has been the subject of an ongoing excavation since the start of the 21st century, accompanied by an ...

, Iron Age hill fort. *

Castle an Dinas Castle an Dinas is an Iron Age hillfort at the summit of Castle Downs, Cornwall, Castle Downs near St Columb Major in Cornwall, UK () and is considered one of the most important hillforts in the southwest of Great Britain, Britain. It dates fro ...

, Iron Age hill fort. * Castle Hill, Iron Age hill fort. * Castle Old Fort, Stonnall, Iron Age hill fort. * Clatworthy Camp, Iron Age hill fort. * Coney's Castle, Iron Age hill fort. * Cow Castle, Iron Age hill fort. * Danebury, Iron Age hill fort. * Daw's Castle, Iron Age hill fort. * Devil's Dyke, Iron Age defensive ditch. * Dinas Dinlle, Iron Age hill fort. * Dolebury Warren, Iron Age hill fort. * Dowsborough, Iron Age hill fort. *

Dumbarton Castle Dumbarton Castle (, ; ) has the longest recorded history of any stronghold in Scotland. It sits on a volcanic plug of basalt known as Dumbarton Rock which is high and overlooks the Scottish town of Dumbarton. History Dumbarton Rock was forme ...

, Iron Age stronghold. *

Dunadd Dunadd (Scottish Gaelic ''Dún Ad'', "fort on the iverAdd", Old Irish ''Dún Att'') is a hillfort in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, dating from the Iron Age and early medieval period and is believed to be the capital of the ancient kingdom of Dál R ...

, Iron Age hill fort. * Dundon Hill (or Dundon Camp), Compton Dundon, Iron Age hill fort. *

Durnovaria Durnovaria is a suggested spelling for the Latin form of the name of the Roman town of Dorchester in the modern English county of Dorset, amended from the actually observed Durnonovaria. Upon the assumption that the name was originally Brytho ...

, Iron Age hill fort. * Eildon Hill, Late Bronze Age hill fort. *

Eggardon Hill Eggardon Hill is a prehistoric hillfort on a hill in Dorset, England. It is located on chalk uplands approximately four miles to the east of the town of Bridport. The Hill Eggardon Hill stands above sea level and is classified as a Hump (hil ...

, Iron Age hill fort. * Ham Hill, Bronze and Iron Age hill fort *

Hambledon Hill Hambledon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, in the Blackmore Vale five miles northwest of Blandford Forum. The hill itself is a chalk outcrop, on the southwestern corner of Cranborne Chase, separated from the Dorset Downs by t ...

, Iron Age hill fort and Neolithic

causewayed enclosure A causewayed enclosure is a type of large prehistoric Earthworks (Archaeology), earthwork common to the early Neolithic in Europe. It is an enclosure (archaeology), enclosure marked out by ditches and banks, with a number of causeways crossing ...

s. *

Hod Hill Hod Hill (or Hodd Hill) is a large hill fort in the Blackmore Vale, north-west of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. The fort sits on a chalk hill of the same name that lies between the adjacent Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase. The hill fo ...

, Iron Age hill fort. * Kenwalch's Castle, Iron Age hill fort. * Kingsdown Camp, Iron Age hill fort. * Lambert's Castle, Iron Age hill fort. *

Maes Knoll Maes Knoll (sometimes Maes tump or Maes Knoll tump) is an Iron Age hill fort in Somerset, England, located at the eastern end of the Dundry Down ridge, south of the city of Bristol and north of the village of Norton Malreward near the eastern ...

, Iron Age hill fort. * Maesbury Castle, Iron Age hill fort. * Maiden Castle, Iron Age hill fort. *

Norton Camp Norton Camp is a Bronze Age hill fort at Norton Fitzwarren near Taunton in Somerset, England. Background Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the 1st millennium BCE. The reason for their emergence i ...

, Bronze Age hill fort *

Old Sarum Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Situated on a hill about north of modern Salisbury near the A345 road, the settlement appears in some of the earliest recor ...

, Iron Age hill fort and Neolithic settlement. *

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, Iron Age hill fort and Bronze Age barrows. * Oram's Arbour, Iron Age hill fort. *

Pen Dinas Pen Dinas () is a large hill in Penparcau, on the coast of Ceredigion, Wales, (just south of Aberystwyth) upon which an extensive Iron Age, Celtic hillfort is situated. The site can easily be reached on foot from Aberystwyth town centre and is a ...

, Iron Age hill fort. * Pilsdon Pen, Iron Age hill fort. *

Plainsfield Camp Plainsfield Camp (or ''Park Plantation'' or Cockercombe Castle) is a possible Iron Age earthwork on the Quantock Hills near Aisholt in Somerset, England. The so-called hill fort has several features that make it more likely to be an animal encl ...

, Iron Age hill fort. * Poundbury Hill, Iron Age hill fort and Middle Bronze Age settlement. * Ruborough Camp, Iron Age hill fort. * Segsbury Camp, Iron Age hill fort. * Sharpenhoe Clappers, Iron Age hill fort. * Small Down Knoll, Bronze Age hill fort *

Solsbury Hill Little Solsbury Hill (or simply Solsbury Hill) is a small flat-topped hill and the site of an Iron Age hill fort, above the village of Batheaston in Somerset, England. The hill rises to above the River Avon, which is just over to the sou ...

, Iron Age hill fort. * Stantonbury Camp, Iron Age hill fort. * Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications, Iron Age hill fort. * Sweetworthy, Iron Age hill fort. * Traprain Law, Iron Age hill fort. * Trendle Ring, Iron Age hill fort. * Tre'r Ceiri, Iron Age hill fort. *

Uffington Castle Uffington Castle is an early Iron Age (with underlying Bronze Age) univallate hillfort in Oxfordshire, England. It covers about and is surrounded by two earth banks separated by a ditch with an entrance in the western end. A second entrance in ...

, Iron Age hill fort. * White Castle, Iron Age hill fort. * Wincobank, Iron Age hill fort. *

Worlebury Camp Worlebury Camp (or Worlebury Hillfort) is the site of an Iron Age hillfort on Worlebury Hill, north of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. The fort was well defended with numerous walls, embankments and ditches around the site. Several larg ...

, Worlebury Hill, Iron Age hill fort.

Other defensive structures

* Broch of Mousa, broch. * Dun Carloway,

broch In archaeology, a broch is an British Iron Age, Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure found in Scotland. Brochs belong to the classification "complex Atlantic roundhouse" devised by Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s. Brochs are round ...

. * Edin's Hall Broch, broch. * Eilean Dòmhnuill,

crannog A crannog (; ; ) is typically a partially or entirely artificial island, usually constructed in lakes, bogs and estuary, estuarine waters of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Unlike the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, which were built ...

. * Wansdyke

Henges

Arbor Low Arbor Low is a well-preserved Neolithic henge in the Derbyshire Peak District, England. It lies on a Carboniferous Limestone plateau known as the White Peak area. The monument consists of a stone circle surrounded by earthworks and a ditch. ...

, late Neolithic Class II henge. *

Avebury Avebury () is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in ...

, Neolithic henge and stone circles. * Ballymeanoch, Neolithic henge with a small burial cairn as well as

standing stones A menhir (; from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Br ...

and stone circles. * The Bull Ring, Neolithic Class II henge. * Catholme ceremonial complex, Neolithic henge enclosure, timber circle and pit alignments * Castle Dykes Henge, Neolithic Class I henge. * Drove Cottage Henge, Heavily damaged Neolithic henge *

Durrington Walls Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in England. It lies north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury in Wiltshire ...

, Neolithic Class II henge. * King Arthur's Round Table, Neolithic Class II henge. * Maumbury Rings, Neolithic henge later used as a

Roman amphitheatre Roman amphitheatres are theatres — large, circular or oval open-air venues with tiered seating — built by the ancient Romans. They were used for events such as gladiator combats, ''venationes'' (animal slayings) and executions. About List of R ...

. * Mayburgh Henge, Neolithic henge with standing stones. * Priddy Circles, four stone circles and two round barrows * Ring of Brodgar, Neolithic henge and stone circle. * Thornborough Henges, three aligned Neolithic henges. * Waulud's Bank, a possible Neolithic henge. *

Woodhenge Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class II henge and timber circle monument within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is northeast of Stonehenge, in Durrington parish, just north of the town of Amesbury. Discovery Woodhen ...

, Neolithic Class I henge and timber circle.

Hill figures

Long Man of Wilmington The Long Man of Wilmington or Wilmington Giant is a hill figure on the steep slopes of Windover Hill near Wilmington, East Sussex, Wilmington, East Sussex, England. It is northwest of Eastbourne and south of Wilmington. Locally, the figure w ...

, hill figure of uncertain age, but probably not

prehistoric Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use o ...

. *

Uffington White Horse The Uffington White Horse is a Prehistoric Britain, prehistoric hill figure, long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk. The figure is situated on the upper slopes of Whitehorse Hill in the English civil parishes in En ...

, Bronze Age hill figure.

Settlement sites

* Carn Brea, Cornwall * Cheddar Gorge and its caves, forming part of the

Cheddar Complex The Cheddar Complex is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Cheddar, Somerset, Cheddar around the Cheddar Gorge and north east to Charterhouse, Somerset, Charterhouse in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England, SSSI notification, n ...

* Chysauster Ancient Village, Cornwall * Din Lligwy, Anglesey * Flag Fen, Cambridgeshire * Glastonbury Lake Village * Harrow Hill, West Sussex * Huckhoe Settlement, Northumberland * Little Woodbury, Wiltshire * Martin Down Enclosure, Hampshire * Morgan's Hill Enclosure, Wiltshire * Rotherley Down Settlement, Wiltshire *

The Sanctuary The Sanctuary was a stone and timber circle near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Excavation has revealed the location of the 58 stone sockets and 62 post-holes. The ring was part of a tradition of stone ...

, Wiltshire * Shaftoe Crags Settlement, Northumberland *

Skara Brae Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill in the parish of Sandwick, Orkney, Sandwick, on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney, Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. It consiste ...

, Orkney * Shearplace Hill Enclosure, Dorset * Shipton Hill Settlement, Dorset * Slate Hill Settlement, Northumberland * Smedmore Hill Settlement, Dorset * South Lodge Camp, Wiltshire * Thundersbarrow Hill, West Sussex * Woodcutts Settlement, Dorset

Stone monuments

* Achavanich * Beckhampton Avenue *

Bennachie Bennachie ( ; Scottish Gaelic: ''Beinn na Cìche'') is a range of hills in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.Whiteley, A.W.M. (Ed.) (1976). ''The Book of Bennachie''. The Bailies of Bennachie. . Mostly anecdotes and verse about the mountain and its surro ...

* Birkrigg stone circle * Boscawen-Un * Boskednan stone circle *

The Bridestones The Bridestones is a chambered cairn, near Congleton, Cheshire, England, that was constructed in the Neolithic period about 3500–2400 BC. It was described in 1764 as being long and wide, containing three separate compartments, of which only ...

Callanish Stones The Calanais Stones (or "Calanais I": or ) are an arrangement of menhir, standing stones placed in a cruciform pattern with a central stone circle, located on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. They were erected in the late Neolithic British Isles, Ne ...

Castlerigg stone circle Castlerigg Stone Circle (alternatively Keswick Carles, or Carles) is situated on a prominent hill to the east of Keswick, in the Lake District National Park, North West England. It is one of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and ...

* Doll Tor * Drizzlecombe * Grey Wethers * The Hurlers *

Long Meg and Her Daughters Long Meg and Her Daughters is a Neolithic stone circle situated north-east of Penrith near Little Salkeld in Cumbria, North West England. One of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a me ...

* The Longstones * Mên-an-Tol *

The Merry Maidens The Merry Maidens (), also known as Dawn's Men (a likely corruption of the Cornish ''Dons Men'' "Stone Dance") is a Late Neolithic stone circle A stone circle is a ring of megalithic standing stones. Most are found in Northwestern Europ ...

* Merrivale *

Mitchell's Fold Mitchell's Fold (sometimes called Medgel's Fold or Madges Pinfold) is a Bronze Age stone circle in southwest Shropshire, located near the small village of White Grit on dry heathland at the southwest end of Stapeley Hill in the Civil parishes i ...

Nine Ladies The Nine Ladies is a stone circle located on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire in the English East Midlands. The Nine Ladies is part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the La ...

* Rollright Stones *

Rudston Rudston is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated between Driffield and Bridlington approximately west of Bridlington, and lies on the B1253 road. The Gypsey Race (an intermittent stream) r ...

(

Rudston Monolith The Rudston Monolith at over is the tallest monolith (standing stone) in the United Kingdom. It is situated in the churchyard in the village of Rudston () in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Description The stone is slender, with two large flat f ...

) * Stalldown Barrow * Standing Stones of Stenness * Stanton Drew * Stones of Scotland * Swinside * Temple Wood * Threestoneburn Stone Circle * Torhouse * Tregeseal East stone circle * Yellowmead stone circle

Structures of unknown purpose

Grim's Ditch Grim's Ditch, Grim's Dyke (also Grimsdyke or Grimes Dike in derivative names) or Grim's Bank is a name shared by a number of prehistoric bank and ditch linear earthworks across England. They are of different dates and may have had different funct ...

, bank and ditch earthworks. * Seahenge, Bronze Age timber monument. *

Silbury Hill Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site. At high, the hill is the second tallest prehistoric man ...

, the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe. * The Gop, Neolithic mound in Wales. *

, large area of stone circles

References

External links

Winter Solstice and Long Barrows
has a listing of Long Barrow coordinates

– about-britain.com
Scottish Archaeological Research Framework
-- Chronological and regional overview of Scottish archaeology {{Prehistoric technology, state=expanded

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