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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
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...
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
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....
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....
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
West Devon, England, United Kingdom
Hidden within a Dartmoor forest clearing, Fernworthy Stone Circle has stood for four thousand years....
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
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
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
Tredinnick, England, United Kingdom
Eight quartz stones rise from a Cornish field, their whiteness still luminous after four millennia....
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....
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....
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....
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lybster, Caithness, United Kingdom
On the peatlands of Caithness, a circular mound of grey stone rises from the heather....
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
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
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
Sandwick, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
On the western shore of Orkney's Mainland, the Bay of Skaill opens to the Atlantic....
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
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
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
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
Stenness, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
On Mainland Orkney, a grass-covered mound rises seven metres above a surrounding ditch....
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Old Scatness Broch and Iron Age Village
Virkie, Shetland, United Kingdom
In 1975, construction workers building a road to Sumburgh Airport cut through what appeared to be a natural grassy mound at the southern tip of Mainland Shetland....
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