Stenness Stone Circle in Orkney, Scotland

This style of pottery and the radiocarbon dating suggests a date of 3000BCE - the same period as the Skara Brae coastal settlement. 📷 simbobs More: http://www.megalithi

How it has stood for five millenia without cracking is beyond me. Excavations in 1973 revealed a central setting of stones, no longer visible, with cremated bone, charcoal, and grooved ware pottery.

Stenness: The northern lights over Stenness, May 2025. Three impressive uprights, originally a stone circle of twelve stones 30m diameter, in a rock-cut ditch like the nearby Ring of Brodgar. The enormous height and narrowness of the huge slab must be seen.

Crucuno Dolmen Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Bretagne:Morbihan (56), France

5 metres, covered by a single massive capstone perched on top of 9 support stones, with easily enough room to stand upright inside. The capstone is 7.6 metres in length and weighs about 40 tons. 📷 stonetracker More: http://www.megalithi

Crucuno Dolmen: Right in the middle of the hamlet of Crucuno is this tremendous, much visited and photographed dolmen - one of the best known dolmens in the whole of Brittany, The rectangular chamber is about 4 metres by 3.

Gerum Rune Rock Rock Art in Bohuslän, Sweden

Also a total of 65 ships, 11 human figures, 15 indeterminate figures, 12 animals, 6 foot marks, a wheel cross, 3 circular shapes and 91 cup marks! In Bohuslän, Sweden. Lots more detail on our page. 📷 Tonnox More: http://www.megalithi

Gerum Rune Rock: Bronze Age rock carvings estimated to date from 1800 to 500 BCE, including a mysterious carving known as the Maypole seen here on the left.

Kuttam Pokuna Ancient Village or Settlement in Sri Lanka

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Kuttam Pokuna: The Twin Ponds, renowned ancient bathing pools in Anuradhapura, built around the 6th century for monks of the Abhayagiri Viharaya. Beautiful construction, see the scrolls and seven headed serpents (pictured). It still holds water and there were even turtles in the there !

St Cuthbert's Church (Darlington) Ancient Cross in County Durham, England

Cuthbert's body rested here on its way from Ripon to Durham in 995. 📷 Anne T More: http://www.megalithi

The church has on display the remains of a Danish hogback and fragments of Saxon crosses and a sundial (pictured) bear witness to evidence of a church on this site for well over 1,000 years. The church guide tells us that there is "traditional belief that St.

St Cuthbert's Church (Darlington): 10th Century walls found under this church during restoration, confirming its age. A 3D visual reconstruction will be available once the work is complete.

Vehicles of change: two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Vehicles of change: two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain

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Stanwick Hillfort Hillfort in Yorkshire (North), England

It’s likely to have been an important stronghold for the Brigantes and may have been the home of queen Cartimandua, who ruled at the time those chaps from Rome visited. There's bundles of evidence from other periods of occupation too. 📷 Dodomad More: http://www.megalithi

One huge site - if you could walk round the ramparts you’d cover about 6.5km (4 miles) and internally you’ve got 750 acres to get lost in. The earliest evidence dates the fortifications from the mid to late Iron Age, with occupation waning towards the end of the 1st century CE.

Stanwick Hillfort: Melsonby Hoard exhibition at Yorkshire Museum, York - opens 15 May 2026. Centrepiece is "The Block" (pictured) - a compacted mass of metalwork weighing over 150kg, nearly a metre across, which is being gradually revealed by CT scanning. .

Alsted Halkensten Langdysse: A well preserved Langdysse (Long Barrow) in Sorø. 1.8 x 33 x 11 meters in size. With 3 chambers and 37 kerb stones. 📷 Tonnox More: http://www.megalithi

Wogan Cavern Cave or Rock Shelter in Pembrokeshire, Wales

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The cavern is home to Greater Horseshoe bats, but its large size and flat floor made it a likely storage space in the Middle Ages, and artefacts found in the cave show its use during the Roman period, as well as much earlier in prehistoric times. 📷 Creative Commons More:

Under the northern part of the castle - a vast cave accessed from above down a spiral staircase.

Wogan Cavern: Recent excavations have so uncovered rare evidence of early humans and animals - including the bones of a hippopotamus which roamed Wales 120000 years ago. Five more years of digs are planned, starting again soon. A cave with Palaeolithic remains beneath medieval Pembroke Castle.

With Paul Whitewick, landscape video maker / Youtuber, James Attlee, psychogeographic author, historian Louise Ryland-Epton and Andrew Chapman from Northern Earth. More: http://www.megalithi

Northern Earth Presents: Encounters with Landscapes, Friday 22nd May, Oxford: Encounters with Landscapes - An inaugural evening of short films, talks and conversation about landscape and the relationship between people and place.

Crick Iron Age Village Ancient Village or Settlement in Northamptonshire, England

Described as "probably the oldest known village in Northamptonshire". The site is now under the DIRFT (Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal) but the archaeology is fully published - see the references and links on our page. 📷 Anne T More: http://www.megalithi

Crick Iron Age Village: One of the largest Iron Age settlements ever excavated in Britain. Reconstruction image by Mark Gridley. 178 hectares were excavated, up to 100 roundhouses at peak occupation and five separate housing clusters built across a valley.

Oued Ksiar Cemeteries Barrow Cemetery in Morocco

The complex comprises two tumuli and three clusters of cists (potentially four, with one destroyed), representing one of the largest concentrations of late prehistoric funerary monuments in the region. 📷 Dodomad More: http://www.megalithi

Oued Ksiar Cemeteries: The most extensively documented cist and tumuli cemetery complex on the Tangier Peninsula, spread across five adjacent hills overlooking the Oued Ksiar river in northwestern Morocco.

Daroua Zaydan Cist in Morocco

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Daroua Zaydan: The site of the first radiocarbon-dated cist burial in northwest Africa, establishing an Early Bronze Age date of 2119-1890 cal BCE for this burial tradition on the Tangier Peninsula. The discovery was published in 2025 by Benattia, Onrubia-Pintado and Bokbot. 📷 Dodomad More:

Trelai Park Timber Circle and Burials Timber Circle in Wales

The site has been revealed through four seasons of community excavation by the CAER Heritage Project, a partnership between Cardiff University and local residents. 📷 Anne T More: http://www.megalithi