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Lund Standing Stone
Baltasound, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the low moorland of southwest Unst, the most northerly inhabited island in the British Isles, a massive gneiss boulder stands roughly 3.8 metres tall with a girth...
Machrie Moor Stone Circles
Machrie, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the western coast of the Isle of Arran, a walk of a mile and a half across open moorland brings you to six stone circles arranged on a broad, flat expanse beneath the...
Macleod's Stone
Tarbert, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a small hillock above Traigh Iar beach on the west coast of Harris, a single standing stone has held its ground for approximately five thousand years....
Maeshowe Chambered Cairn
Stenness, Scotland, United Kingdom
On Mainland Orkney, a grass-covered mound rises seven metres above a surrounding ditch....
Merry Maidens Stone Circle
Lamorna, England, United Kingdom
Rising from Cornish farmland near Land's End, the Merry Maidens stands as one of Britain's most complete Bronze Age stone circles....
Midhowe Chambered Cairn
Rousay, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the western shore of Rousay, sheltered beneath a modern protective roof, lies the largest stalled cairn in Orkney....
Mor Stein
Shapinsay, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the southeastern shore of Shapinsay, one of the inner Orkney Islands, a single standing stone rises roughly ten feet from the turf....
Moss Farm Road Stone Circle
Machrie, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the western shore of the Isle of Arran, where a farm track leads into the ancient ceremonial moorland of Machrie, seven stones still stand in a broken ring....
Nether Largie Mid Cairn
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nether Largie Mid Cairn stands at the heart of Kilmartin Glen's linear cemetery, a two-kilometer procession of burial monuments stretching across the floor of one of...
Nether Largie North Cairn
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nether Largie North Cairn stands second in a line of five burial monuments stretching through Kilmartin Glen in Argyll, Scotland....
Nether Largie South Cairn
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
In the heart of Kilmartin Glen, Nether Largie South Cairn has held its ground for more than five thousand years....
Nether Largie standing stones, Argyll, Scotland
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
Five massive stones stand in an X-shaped pattern at the heart of Kilmartin Glen, mainland Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape....
Nine Ladies Stone Circle
Stanton in Peak, England, United Kingdom
Nine Ladies is an Early Bronze Age stone circle on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire, set within a much wider prehistoric landscape of barrows, cairns, and standing stones....
Nine Stones Close Stone Circle, Youlgreave
Derbyshire Dales, England, United Kingdom
Four weathered stones stand sentinel on Harthill Moor, remnants of a Bronze Age circle that once framed the setting Moon between the twin pillars of Robin Hood's Stride....
Pobull Fhinn
Lochmaddy, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the southern slope of Ben Langass, overlooking Loch Langass and the mountain Eaval, an oval of standing stones occupies a platform that Bronze Age hands carved from the...
Quoyness Chambered Cairn
Sanday, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the Elsness peninsula of Sanday, one of Orkney's northern isles, a chambered cairn of exceptional preservation stands near the shore....
Reineval Chambered Cairn
Lochboisdale, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the northern slope of Beinn Reineabhal, overlooking the valley that descends to Mingarry and the Atlantic beyond, a massive stone mound rises from the moorland....
Ri Cruin Cairn
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
Ri Cruin Cairn stands at the southern end of Kilmartin Glen's linear cemetery, a two-kilometre alignment of Bronze Age burial cairns running through the floor of an Argyll...
Ring of Bookan
Stromness, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a windswept rise northwest of the Ring of Brodgar, a broad ditch and raised platform mark where Neolithic people placed a monument at the boundary between the everyday...
Rollright Stones
West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Three prehistoric monuments spanning nearly two thousand years crown this Cotswold ridge: a stone circle, a solitary king, and whispering knights plotting in stone....
Ronas Hill Chambered Cairn
North Roe, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the summit of Shetland's highest hill, Neolithic builders placed a chambered cairn for their dead....
Rudston Monolith
Rudston, England, United Kingdom
Rising nearly eight meters from a Yorkshire churchyard, the Rudston Monolith has anchored human spiritual activity for over four millennia....
Standing Stone of Hollandstoun
North Ronaldsay, Scotland, United Kingdom
On North Ronaldsay, the most northerly of Orkney's inhabited islands, a standing stone known as the Stan Stane rises approximately four metres from the ground....
Standing Stones of Stenness
Stenness, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the narrow isthmus between the salt Loch of Stenness and the freshwater Loch of Harray, four surviving megaliths stand where perhaps twelve once formed an ellipse....
Stone 'O Quoybune
Birsay, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Stone 'O Quoybune rises three and a half metres from a field beside the Loch of Boardhouse in the parish of Birsay, on Mainland Orkney....
Swinside Stone Circle
Cumberland, England, United Kingdom
Hidden on a Cumbrian fellside, Swinside Stone Circle rises from the grass with a completeness that has earned it the title 'loveliest of all the circles' in north-western...
Taversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn
Rousay, Scotland, United Kingdom
Near the pier at Trumland, on a hillside above Rousay's southern coast, Taversoe Tuick conceals an architectural anomaly....
Temple Wood Stone Circle
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
In the heart of Kilmartin Glen, where western Scotland gathers its ancient monuments into one of Europe's densest prehistoric landscapes, Temple Wood Stone Circle stands...
The Devils Arrows
Boroughbridge, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the fields west of Boroughbridge, the Devil's Arrows are among Britain's tallest and most mysterious standing stones....
The Setter Stone
Eday, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the island of Eday, one of Orkney's less-visited northern isles, a single standing stone rises approximately four and a half metres from the moorland....
Tomb of Eagles
South Ronaldsay, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the southeastern tip of South Ronaldsay, where Orkney meets the open sea, a Neolithic chambered cairn stands near the cliff edge....
Torrylin Cairn
Kilmory, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the south coast of Arran, beside the quiet waters of Kilmory Water, a low arrangement of stones marks where Neolithic communities brought their dead....
Trellyffaint Burial Chamber
Nevern, Wales, United Kingdom
Raised some six thousand years ago on a Pembrokeshire ridge, Trellyffaint Burial Chamber stands as one of Wales's oldest megalithic monuments....
Trethevy Quoit
St Cleer, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the fields of east Cornwall, Trethevy Quoit has stood for over five thousand years as one of Britain's finest portal dolmens....
Unstan Chambered Cairn
Stenness, Scotland, United Kingdom
Unstan Chambered Cairn stands on a promontory reaching into the Loch of Stenness, where Neolithic communities placed their dead between land and water for over a thousand...
Vinquoy Chambered Cairn
Eday, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the summit of Vinquoy Hill, the highest point on the island of Eday in Orkney, a Neolithic chambered cairn commands views across Calf Sound and the northern isles....
Yockenthwaite stone circle
Buckden, England, United Kingdom
Hidden in the remote valley of Langstrothdale, the Yockenthwaite Stone Circle marks a four-thousand-year-old burial site where Bronze Age peoples laid their dead to rest....
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