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Penrhos Feiliw standing stones
Celtic and Prehistoric

Penrhos Feiliw standing stones

Holyhead, Anglesey, United Kingdom

On Holy Island, at the western edge of Anglesey, two standing stones rise in near-identical form....

Meini Hirion standing stones
Celtic and Prehistoric

Meini Hirion standing stones

Holyhead, Anglesey, United Kingdom

On Holy Island, at the western edge of Anglesey, two standing stones rise in near-identical form....

Corrimony Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Corrimony Cairn

Drumnadrochit, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

Hidden in a quiet Highland glen, Corrimony Chambered Cairn has kept watch over its buried dead for four thousand years....

Mount Schiehallion, Scotland
Celtic and Prehistoric

Mount Schiehallion, Scotland

Aberfeldy, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

Rising like a sentinel at the heart of Scotland, Schiehallion carries one of the most evocative names in Gaelic geography: Sidh Chailleann, the Fairy Hill of the...

Dwarfie Stane (Dwarf's Stone)
Celtic and Prehistoric

Dwarfie Stane (Dwarf's Stone)

Hoy, Orkney, United Kingdom

In a steep-sided valley on the island of Hoy, a massive block of red sandstone lies in desolate peatland....

Pentre Ifan Dolmen
Celtic and Prehistoric

Pentre Ifan Dolmen

Nevern, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom

On a hillside in west Wales, a sixteen-ton capstone floats on three slender uprights....

Ring of Brodgar
Celtic and Prehistoric

Ring of Brodgar

Stromness, Orkney, United Kingdom

On a windswept isthmus between two lochs in Orkney, thirty-six ancient stones stand in an almost perfect circle, remnants of sixty that once marked one of Britain's most...

Mên-an-Tol
Celtic and Prehistoric

Mên-an-Tol

Morvah, Cornwall, United Kingdom

On the West Penwith moor, three stones stand against the sky—but it is the middle stone that draws seekers from around the world....

Fingal’s Cave, Island of Staffa, Scotland
Celtic and Prehistoric

Fingal’s Cave, Island of Staffa, Scotland

Staffa Island, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

On the uninhabited island of Staffa, a sea cave lined with hexagonal basalt columns has drawn pilgrims for over two centuries....

Callanish
Celtic and Prehistoric

Callanish

Callanish, Isle of Lewis, United Kingdom

On the western edge of Lewis, where the Atlantic meets the Outer Hebrides, the Callanish Stones rise from a ridge above Loch Roag....

Brisworthy Stone Circle
Celtic and Prehistoric

Brisworthy Stone Circle

Shaugh Prior, Devon, United Kingdom

On the windswept heights of Ringmoor Down, twenty-four weathered granite stones mark a space where Bronze Age communities gathered four thousand years ago....

Cadair Idris
Celtic and Prehistoric

Cadair Idris

Dolgellau, Cymru / Wales, United Kingdom

Rising above southern Snowdonia, Cadair Idris has drawn seekers for centuries with its promise of transformation....

Carwynnen Quoit
Celtic and Prehistoric

Carwynnen Quoit

Camborne, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Near Camborne in Cornwall, a ten-ton capstone once again rests on its supporting pillars, restored in 2014 after lying collapsed for nearly five decades....

Mt. Beinn-na-Greine, Portree, Scotland
Celtic and Prehistoric

Mt. Beinn-na-Greine, Portree, Scotland

Portree, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

On the Isle of Skye, a modest peak carries an ancient name: Beinn na Greine, Mountain of the Sun....

Gors Fawr stone ring, Mynachlog-ddu, Dyfed, England
Celtic and Prehistoric

Gors Fawr stone ring, Mynachlog-ddu, Dyfed, England

Mynachlog-ddu, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom

On remote moorland in the shadow of the Preseli Mountains, sixteen low stones form a circle that has survived intact for over four thousand years....

Harold’s Stones
Celtic and Prehistoric

Harold’s Stones

Trellech, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

In a field at the edge of Trellech village, three standing stones rise from the Welsh earth, the tallest reaching fifteen feet despite having sunk into the ground....

Clava Cairns
Celtic and Prehistoric

Clava Cairns

Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom

Set in a woodland clearing near Inverness, the Clava Cairns stand as monuments to Bronze Age beliefs about death and rebirth....

The Virtuous Well
Celtic and Prehistoric

The Virtuous Well

Trellech, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

In a quiet meadow southeast of Trellech, four springs rise through a medieval well structure still festooned with cloth offerings....

Nether Largie standing stones, Argyll, Scotland
Celtic and Prehistoric

Nether Largie standing stones, Argyll, Scotland

Kilmartin, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

Five massive stones stand in an X-shaped pattern at the heart of Kilmartin Glen, mainland Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape....

Cairn of Get
Celtic and Prehistoric

Cairn of Get

Ulbster, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

On a windswept hillside in Scotland's far north, a stone chamber has held its silence for over five thousand years....

Praying Hands of Mary
Celtic and Prehistoric

Praying Hands of Mary

Fortingall, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

Deep in Glen Lyon, Scotland's longest and most storied glen, two weathered stones rise from the hillside like hands pressed together in prayer....

Dun Beag, Struan, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Celtic and Prehistoric

Dun Beag, Struan, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Struan, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

On a windswept hilltop above Struan, the dry-stone walls of Dun Beag have stood for over two thousand years....

Boscawen-un Stone Circle
Celtic and Prehistoric

Boscawen-un Stone Circle

St Buryan, Cornwall, United Kingdom

In the fields near St Buryan in Cornwall, nineteen granite stones form an ellipse around a leaning central pillar bearing axe carvings found nowhere else in Britain....

Healabhal Mhor, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Celtic and Prehistoric

Healabhal Mhor, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Dunvegan, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

On the Duirinish peninsula of Skye, Healabhal Mhor rises with a summit so flat it resembles a natural altar open to the sky....

Croft Moraig Stone Circle, Aberfeldy
Celtic and Prehistoric

Croft Moraig Stone Circle, Aberfeldy

Aberfeldy, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

On the shores of Loch Tay, three concentric rings of stone mark a place held sacred for five millennia....

Lanyon Quoit
Celtic and Prehistoric

Lanyon Quoit

Madron, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Lanyon Quoit rises from the West Penwith landscape like a statement from another age....

Kinnell stone circle, Killin
Celtic and Prehistoric

Kinnell stone circle, Killin

Killin, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

In a quiet pasture east of Killin village, six standing stones have held their positions for perhaps four thousand years....

Clynnog Fawr Dolmen
Celtic and Prehistoric

Clynnog Fawr Dolmen

Clynnog Fawr, Gwynedd, United Kingdom

On a hillside between mountains and sea near Clynnog Fawr, a Neolithic burial chamber has stood for over five thousand years....

Nine Maidens stone ring, Cornwall
Celtic and Prehistoric

Nine Maidens stone ring, Cornwall

St. Columb Major, Cornwall, United Kingdom

On the high moorland of West Penwith, where Atlantic winds sweep across granite and gorse, the Nine Maidens stand in their ancient circle....

Ballymeanoch Neolithic site, Kilmartin Glen
Celtic and Prehistoric

Ballymeanoch Neolithic site, Kilmartin Glen

Kilmartin, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

In Kilmartin Glen, where more than 350 ancient monuments cluster within six miles of a quiet village, Ballymeanoch holds its ground with particular intensity....

Camster Cairns
Celtic and Prehistoric

Camster Cairns

Lybster, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom

On the windswept peatlands of Caithness, two stone cairns rise from the heather as they have for over five thousand years....

Bodowyr Dolmen
Celtic and Prehistoric

Bodowyr Dolmen

Llangaffo, Cymru / Wales, United Kingdom

In a quiet farmer's field on Anglesey, three standing stones bear a mushroom-shaped capstone that has marked this hilltop for over five thousand years....

Castlerigg stone ring
Celtic and Prehistoric

Castlerigg stone ring

Keswick, Cumbria, United Kingdom

On a plateau near Keswick in the Lake District, forty stones form one of Britain's earliest and most atmospheric prehistoric monuments....

Long Meg and Her Daughters stone ring
Celtic and Prehistoric

Long Meg and Her Daughters stone ring

Little Salkeld, England, United Kingdom

One of Britain's largest and oldest stone circles rises from the Eden Valley in Cumbria, its massive ring of granite daughters watched over by a single sandstone monolith...

Drumskinny Stone Circle, Drumskinny, Ireland
Celtic and Prehistoric

Drumskinny Stone Circle, Drumskinny, Ireland

County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Rising from drained bogland in County Fermanagh, Drumskinny preserves a complete Bronze Age ceremonial landscape: stone circle, kerbed cairn, and alignment, arranged with...

Cornwall
Celtic and Prehistoric

Cornwall

Penzance, England, United Kingdom

Cornwall ( ; Cornish: Kernow [ˈkɛrnɔʊ] or [ˈkɛrnɔ]) is a ceremonial county in South West England....

Trethevy Quoit
Celtic and Prehistoric

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....

The Devils Arrows
Celtic and Prehistoric

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....

Dragon Hill
Celtic and Prehistoric

Dragon Hill

Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom

Below Britain's oldest chalk figure, a small hill rises with a mystery at its summit. This is Dragon Hill, where legend says St George killed England's last dragon....

Nine Stones Close Stone Circle, Youlgreave
Celtic and Prehistoric

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....

Devil’s Quoits
Celtic and Prehistoric

Devil’s Quoits

West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

In the gravel lands of the Thames Valley, a stone circle has risen again. The Devil's Quoits at Stanton Harcourt was built between 2900 and 2600 BC, a henge and stone...

Stanton Drew stone ring
Celtic and Prehistoric

Stanton Drew stone ring

Stanton Drew, England, United Kingdom

In a field outside a small Somerset village stands Britain's second largest stone circle. Few visitors know it exists....

Merry Maidens Stone Circle
Celtic and Prehistoric

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....

Fernworthy Stone Circle
Celtic and Prehistoric

Fernworthy Stone Circle

West Devon, England, United Kingdom

Hidden within a Dartmoor forest clearing, Fernworthy Stone Circle has stood for four thousand years....

Eamhain Mhacha
Celtic and Prehistoric

Eamhain Mhacha

Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Rising above the Armagh countryside, this ceremonial hilltop was the spiritual and mythological heart of ancient Ulster....

Stonehenge
UNESCOCeltic and Prehistoric

Stonehenge

West Amesbury, England, United Kingdom

Stonehenge rises from Salisbury Plain as the most recognized prehistoric monument on Earth....

Hurlers Stone Circles
Celtic and Prehistoric

Hurlers Stone Circles

Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

Rising from the windswept expanse of Bodmin Moor, the Hurlers comprise three stone circles aligned across the landscape like a question posed in granite....

Swinside Stone Circle
Celtic and Prehistoric

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...

Duddo Five Stones, Duddo
Celtic and Prehistoric

Duddo Five Stones, Duddo

Duddo, England, United Kingdom

Five ancient stones stand on a windswept knoll above the River Tweed, their surfaces grooved by four thousand years of weather into forms that seem almost alive....

Duloe Stone Circle
Celtic and Prehistoric

Duloe Stone Circle

Tredinnick, England, United Kingdom

Eight quartz stones rise from a Cornish field, their whiteness still luminous after four millennia....

Ballynoe Stone Circle, Downpatrick, Ireland
Celtic and Prehistoric

Ballynoe Stone Circle, Downpatrick, Ireland

Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Rising from the green fields of County Down, Ballynoe Stone Circle holds five thousand years of accumulated silence....

Belas Knap Long Barrow
Celtic and Prehistoric

Belas Knap Long Barrow

Tewkesbury, England, United Kingdom

On a Cotswold ridge, 5,800 years of presence wait in a grassy mound 178 feet long....

Giant’s Ring, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Celtic and Prehistoric

Giant’s Ring, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Rising from farmland south of Belfast, the Giant's Ring stands as Ireland's largest prehistoric ceremonial enclosure....

Marlborough Mound
Celtic and Prehistoric

Marlborough Mound

Marlborough, England, United Kingdom

In the grounds of Marlborough College stands a 19-meter mound that most visitors to Wiltshire never see....

Yockenthwaite stone circle
Celtic and Prehistoric

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....

Adam and Eve Stones, Avebury
Celtic and Prehistoric

Adam and Eve Stones, Avebury

Beckhampton, England, United Kingdom

A mile from Avebury, two massive stones stand in a field that most visitors never reach....

Chun Quoit
Celtic and Prehistoric

Chun Quoit

Bojewyan, England, United Kingdom

Rising from the West Penwith moorland, Chun Quoit is Cornwall's best-preserved Neolithic chambered tomb....

Auchagallon Curved Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Auchagallon Curved Cairn

Machrie, North Ayrshire, United Kingdom

On the west coast of the Isle of Arran, on a shelf of hillside above Machrie Bay, fifteen upright stones form a circle around the remains of a Bronze Age burial cairn....

Backies Broch
Celtic and Prehistoric

Backies Broch

Golspie, Sutherland, United Kingdom

On a rocky hillock above the village of Golspie, the remains of Backies Broch look out over the Moray Firth and the North Sea....

Brora Pictish Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Brora Pictish Cairn

Brora, Sutherland, United Kingdom

On the hills above the coastal town of Brora in Sutherland, a cairn attributed to the Pictish period stands as one of the least-documented monuments in a landscape dense...

Glebe Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Glebe Cairn

Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom

Glebe Cairn marks the northern entrance to Kilmartin Glen's linear cemetery, a two-kilometre alignment of burial monuments built and rebuilt across fifteen centuries....

Trellyffaint Burial Chamber
Celtic and Prehistoric

Trellyffaint Burial Chamber

Nevern, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom

Raised some six thousand years ago on a Pembrokeshire ridge, Trellyffaint Burial Chamber stands as one of Wales's oldest megalithic monuments....

Taversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Taversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn

Rousay, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

Near the pier at Trumland, on a hillside above Rousay's southern coast, Taversoe Tuick conceals an architectural anomaly....

Burraland Broch
Celtic and Prehistoric

Burraland Broch

Trondra, Shetland, United Kingdom

On the eastern coast of Mainland Shetland, the ruins of Burraland Broch stand on a promontory above Mousa Sound....

Tomb of Eagles
Celtic and Prehistoric

Tomb of Eagles

South Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

On the southeastern tip of South Ronaldsay, where Orkney meets the open sea, a Neolithic chambered cairn stands near the cliff edge....

Knap of Howar
Celtic and Prehistoric

Knap of Howar

Papa Westray, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

On the western shore of Papa Westray, one of Orkney's smallest inhabited islands, two stone buildings stand with their doorways facing the sea....

Broch of Gurness
Celtic and Prehistoric

Broch of Gurness

Evie, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

The Broch of Gurness rises from a rocky promontory on Orkney's northwest coast, overlooking the turbulent waters of Eynhallow Sound....

Baluachraig Cup and Ring Marks
Celtic and Prehistoric

Baluachraig Cup and Ring Marks

Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom

On exposed rock outcrops in Kilmartin Glen, Neolithic hands pecked cup-shaped hollows and concentric rings into the stone some five thousand years ago....

Dunchraigaig Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Dunchraigaig Cairn

Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom

In one of Scotland's most concentrated sacred landscapes, Dunchraigaig Cairn has held the dead for four thousand years....

Torrylin Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Torrylin Cairn

Kilmory, North Ayrshire, 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....

Mor Stein
Celtic and Prehistoric

Mor Stein

Shapinsay, Orkney Islands, 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....

Midhowe Chambered Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Midhowe Chambered Cairn

Rousay, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

On the western shore of Rousay, sheltered beneath a modern protective roof, lies the largest stalled cairn in Orkney....

Yarrows Broch
Celtic and Prehistoric

Yarrows Broch

Thrumster, Caithness, United Kingdom

On a promontory jutting into the Loch of Yarrows, a broch stands at the centre of one of the richest archaeological landscapes in northern Scotland....

Camster Cairns - The Long Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Camster Cairns - The Long Cairn

Lybster, Caithness, United Kingdom

Camster Long rises from the open peatland of Caithness like a stone vessel set down on the moor and forgotten by all but the wind....

Llech-y-tribedd
Celtic and Prehistoric

Llech-y-tribedd

Moylgrove, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom

Rising from a quiet Pembrokeshire hillside, Llech-y-tribedd is a portal dolmen built by Neolithic farming communities around 4000 BCE....

Ring of Bookan
Celtic and Prehistoric

Ring of Bookan

Stromness, Orkney Islands, 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...

Dunamuck South Stone Row
Celtic and Prehistoric

Dunamuck South Stone Row

Kilmichael Glassary, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom

On level ground beside the River Add, two massive stone slabs stand where Bronze Age hands raised them four thousand years ago....

Dunamuck North Stone Row
Celtic and Prehistoric

Dunamuck North Stone Row

Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom

On the flat ground west of the River Add, where Kilmartin Glen opens into moorland and rough pasture, Dunamuck North Stone Row stands in quiet witness....

Nether Largie North Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Nether Largie North Cairn

Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom

Nether Largie North Cairn stands second in a line of five burial monuments stretching through Kilmartin Glen in Argyll, Scotland....

Banks Chambered Tomb
Celtic and Prehistoric

Banks Chambered Tomb

South Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

On the windswept southern tip of South Ronaldsay, a Neolithic community quarried a tomb from solid bedrock and used it for three centuries to bury their dead....

Kilmichael Glassary Cup and Ring Marks
Celtic and Prehistoric

Kilmichael Glassary Cup and Ring Marks

Lochgilphead, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom

On a sloping rock outcrop beside a village school in Argyll, over one hundred and fifty carvings wait in the stone....

Vinquoy Chambered Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Vinquoy Chambered Cairn

Eday, Orkney Islands, 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....

Moss Farm Road Stone Circle
Celtic and Prehistoric

Moss Farm Road Stone Circle

Machrie, North Ayrshire, 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....

Ness of Brodgar
Celtic and Prehistoric

Ness of Brodgar

Stenness, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

On the narrow isthmus between two lochs on Mainland Orkney, the Ness of Brodgar lies at the centre of a Neolithic world....

Broch of Borwick
Celtic and Prehistoric

Broch of Borwick

Sandwick, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

The Broch of Borwick stands on a crumbling headland above the Atlantic on Orkney's west coast, a stone tower built around 500 BC and occupied for over a thousand years....

Camster Cairns - The Round Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Camster Cairns - The Round Cairn

Lybster, Caithness, United Kingdom

On the peatlands of Caithness, a circular mound of grey stone rises from the heather....

Upper Borgue Broch
Celtic and Prehistoric

Upper Borgue Broch

Dunbeath, Caithness, United Kingdom

Behind the farm of Upper Borgue in the Caithness countryside near Dunbeath, a large mound rises between three and four metres high....

Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn

Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

On Cuween Hill, a few miles west of Kirkwall on Mainland Orkney, a low passage leads into the earth and opens into a chambered tomb five thousand years old....

Ballygowan Rock Art
Celtic and Prehistoric

Ballygowan Rock Art

Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom

On a natural rock outcrop above Kilmartin Glen, more than seventy cup and ring marks dimple a surface that has not changed in five thousand years....

Skara Brae Prehistoric Village
Celtic and Prehistoric

Skara Brae Prehistoric Village

Sandwick, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

On the western shore of Orkney's Mainland, the Bay of Skaill opens to the Atlantic....

Auchencar Standing Stone
Celtic and Prehistoric

Auchencar Standing Stone

Machrie, North Ayrshire, United Kingdom

On the west coast of the Isle of Arran, where the coastal road runs between the mountains and the sea, a tall blade of red sandstone rises from a sheep field near...

Knowe of Lairo
Celtic and Prehistoric

Knowe of Lairo

Rousay, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

On the southwestern hillside of Rousay, overlooking Eynhallow Sound and the tidal island whose Norse name means Holy Island, the Knowe of Lairo stretches over forty-five...

Quoyness Chambered Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Quoyness Chambered Cairn

Sanday, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

On the Elsness peninsula of Sanday, one of Orkney's northern isles, a chambered cairn of exceptional preservation stands near the shore....

Broch of Burrian
Celtic and Prehistoric

Broch of Burrian

North Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

At the southernmost tip of North Ronaldsay, Orkney's most remote inhabited island, the remains of an Iron Age broch stand on a low rocky promontory....

Maeshowe Chambered Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Maeshowe Chambered Cairn

Stenness, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

On Mainland Orkney, a grass-covered mound rises seven metres above a surrounding ditch....

Midhowe Broch
Celtic and Prehistoric

Midhowe Broch

Rousay, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

On the western coast of Rousay, where two steep gullies cut into the shoreline, a broch stands within its own small settlement....

Nether Largie Mid Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Nether Largie Mid Cairn

Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute, 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...

Burroughston Broch
Celtic and Prehistoric

Burroughston Broch

Shapinsay, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

At the northeastern corner of Shapinsay, far from the island's small settlement, Burroughston Broch stands on a hillock above the sea....

Achnabreck Rock Art Sites
Celtic and Prehistoric

Achnabreck Rock Art Sites

Lochgilphead, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom

On a series of natural rock outcrops in a forest above Kilmartin Glen, the most extensive prehistoric carvings in Scotland lie open to the sky....

Standing Stones of Stenness
Celtic and Prehistoric

Standing Stones of Stenness

Stenness, Orkney Islands, 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....

Standing Stone of Hollandstoun
Celtic and Prehistoric

Standing Stone of Hollandstoun

North Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands, 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....

Giants' Graves
Celtic and Prehistoric

Giants' Graves

Whiting Bay, North Ayrshire, United Kingdom

On the eastern slopes of the Isle of Arran, above the village of Whiting Bay, two Neolithic chambered cairns stand in a clearing among the trees....

Dunbeath Broch
Celtic and Prehistoric

Dunbeath Broch

Dunbeath, Caithness, United Kingdom

Where the Dunbeath Water meets the Houstry Burn in the strath of Caithness, a drystone tower has stood for over two thousand years....

Bruan Broch
Celtic and Prehistoric

Bruan Broch

Lybster, Caithness, United Kingdom

On a low rise beside the A99 in Scotland's far north, a grass-covered mound conceals the remains of an Iron Age broch....

Temple Wood Stone Circle
Celtic and Prehistoric

Temple Wood Stone Circle

Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute, 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...

Machrie Moor Stone Circles
Celtic and Prehistoric

Machrie Moor Stone Circles

Machrie, North Ayrshire, 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...

Knowe of Yarso
Celtic and Prehistoric

Knowe of Yarso

Rousay, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

High on a hillside above Eynhallow Sound, the Knowe of Yarso commands views that stretch across the water to Mainland Orkney and the hills beyond....

Nether Largie South Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Nether Largie South Cairn

Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom

In the heart of Kilmartin Glen, Nether Largie South Cairn has held its ground for more than five thousand years....

Stone 'O Quoybune
Celtic and Prehistoric

Stone 'O Quoybune

Birsay, Orkney Islands, 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....

Kilphedir Broch
Celtic and Prehistoric

Kilphedir Broch

Kilphedir, Sutherland, United Kingdom

High on a hillock above the Strath of Kildonan in Sutherland, a broch of pink granite commands views up and down the valley....

Carrol Broch
Celtic and Prehistoric

Carrol Broch

Brora, Sutherland, United Kingdom

Above Loch Brora in Sutherland, where the strath opens between hills of heather and birch, the ruins of Carrol Broch stand on a raised clearing surrounded by forest....

Hill o' Many Stanes
Celtic and Prehistoric

Hill o' Many Stanes

Lybster, Caithness, United Kingdom

On a low hill near the village of Mid Clyth in Caithness, approximately two hundred small standing stones are arranged in twenty-two rows that fan outward as they run down...

Unstan Chambered Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Unstan Chambered Cairn

Stenness, Orkney Islands, 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...

Broch of Mousa
Celtic and Prehistoric

Broch of Mousa

Mousa, Shetland, United Kingdom

On the small, uninhabited island of Mousa in Shetland, a stone tower has stood for over two thousand years almost exactly as its builders left it....

The Setter Stone
Celtic and Prehistoric

The Setter Stone

Eday, Orkney Islands, 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....

Carn Liath Broch
Celtic and Prehistoric

Carn Liath Broch

Golspie, Sutherland, United Kingdom

Where the A9 hugs the coast between Golspie and Brora, a circular stone tower rises from a low headland overlooking the North Sea....

Ousdale Broch
Celtic and Prehistoric

Ousdale Broch

Helmsdale, Caithness, United Kingdom

In a sheltered valley where the Ousdale Burn cuts toward the sea, between the villages of Helmsdale and Berriedale on the Caithness-Sutherland border, a broch stands that...

Ri Cruin Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Ri Cruin Cairn

Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute, 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...

Blackhammer Chambered Cairn
Celtic and Prehistoric

Blackhammer Chambered Cairn

Rousay, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

On Rousay's southern coast, a short walk from the road, Blackhammer Chambered Cairn sits beneath its modern protective shelter....

Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement
Celtic and Prehistoric

Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement

Sumburgh, Shetland, United Kingdom

At the southern tip of Mainland Shetland, where the land narrows to a low promontory above the sea, the ruins of Jarlshof spread across a headland that humans have called...

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