Physical form
Archaeological place
168 sacred places classified as archaeological place in Pilgrim Map. This category includes related, more specific forms.
Barpa Langass
Lochmaddy, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the western flank of Ben Langass, a massive dome of stone rises from the moorland of North Uist....
Callanish 4 Stone Circle
Callanish, Scotland, United Kingdom
On rising ground above Loch Ceann Hulabhig, five standing stones of Lewisian gneiss form a quiet oval around a small burial cairn....
Callanish II Stone Circle
Callanish, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a low ridge overlooking East Loch Roag, five standing stones and two fallen slabs trace an ellipse that once held ten uprights around a central cairn....
Callanish Standing Stone Circle
Callanish, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the Atlantic edge of Lewis, thirteen standing stones form a circle older than the main phase of Stonehenge....
Callanish Stone Circle 8
Callanish, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the southern coast of Great Bernera, three standing stones and one fallen companion form a semicircle at the edge of a sheer cliff above Loch Roag....
Callanish Stone Circle III
Callanish, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a low ridge southeast of the main Callanish Stones, a double concentric ring of Lewisian gneiss has stood for nearly five thousand years....
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...
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....
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...
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....
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....
Amberd Fortress and Vahramashen Church
Byurakan, Aragatsotn, Armenia
Amberd Fortress and Vahramashen Church is a documented archaeological site in Byurakan, Aragatsotn, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Artashat Ancient City
Artashat area, Ararat, Armenia
Artashat Ancient City is a documented archaeological site in Artashat area, Ararat, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Baghaberd Fortress and Church Remains
Kapan area, Syunik, Armenia
Baghaberd Fortress and Church Remains is a documented archaeological site in Kapan area, Syunik, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Dashtadem Fortress Church
Dashtadem, Aragatsotn, Armenia
Dashtadem Fortress Church is a documented archaeological site in Dashtadem, Aragatsotn, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Dvin Archaeological Site
Dvin / Verin Dvin, Ararat, Armenia
Dvin Archaeological Site is a documented archaeological site in Dvin / Verin Dvin, Ararat, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Erebuni Fortress
Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
Erebuni Fortress is a documented archaeological site in Yerevan, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Halidzor Fortress Church
Halidzor, Syunik, Armenia
Halidzor Fortress Church is a documented archaeological site in Halidzor, Syunik, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Horom Citadel
Horom, Shirak, Armenia
Horom Citadel is a documented archaeological site in Horom, Shirak, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Lchashen Archaeological Site
Lchashen, Gegharkunik, Armenia
Lchashen Archaeological Site is a documented archaeological site in Lchashen, Gegharkunik, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Lori Berd Church and Fortress
Stepanavan, Lori, Armenia
Lori Berd Church and Fortress is a documented archaeological site in Stepanavan, Lori, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Metsamor Archaeological Site
Taronik, Armavir, Armenia
Metsamor Archaeological Site is a documented archaeological site in Taronik, Armavir, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Smbataberd Fortress and Chapel Landscape
Artabuynk / Yeghegis, Vayots Dzor, Armenia
Smbataberd Fortress and Chapel Landscape is a documented archaeological site in Artabuynk / Yeghegis, Vayots Dzor, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious...
Teishebaini Fortress
Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia
Teishebaini Fortress is a documented archaeological site in Yerevan, Armenia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Gamigaya Petroglyphs
Nasirvaz, Ordubad District; Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan
Gamigaya Petroglyphs is a documented archaeological site in Nasirvaz, Ordubad District; Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan, connected with Historical regional...
Badrulchau Stone Monoliths, Palau
Ngebei, Ngarchelong, Palau
Rows of weathered basalt columns stand on a hillside at Palau's northern tip, some carved with faces, all of unresolved purpose....
Ardgroom
West Cork, Éire / Ireland
No description available yet.
Drombeg Stone Circle, Glandore, Ireland
County Cork, County Cork, Ireland
On a gentle rise above the West Cork coast, seventeen stones form one of the finest examples of Ireland's distinctive Cork-Kerry axial stone circles....
Drombohilly
Kenmare Municipal District, Éire / Ireland
No description available yet.
Kealkil
West Cork, Éire / Ireland
No description available yet.
Kenmare Stone Circle, Kenmare, Ireland
Kenmare, Kerry, Ireland
Fifteen stones form an egg-shaped ring in the heart of Kenmare town, enclosing a massive boulder-burial with a seven-ton capstone....
Kilclooney Dolmen, Ardara, Ireland
County Donegal, Donegal, Ireland
On a working farm near Ardara in County Donegal, two Neolithic portal tombs stand within sight of each other, the larger crowned by a massive capstone that has balanced on...
Knockroe passage mound, Ireland
County Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland
Knockroe is the only known passage tomb in Europe designed to capture both sunrise and sunset on the winter solstice....
Antequera, Dolmen de Menga
Antequera, Málaga, Spain
In the Andalusian landscape near Antequera, three megalithic tombs demonstrate that 5,500 years ago, humans were already creating monuments of extraordinary ambition and...
Dolmen of Guadalperal
El Gordo, Cáceres, Spain
Beneath the Valdecanas Reservoir in Extremadura lie the remains of a corridor tomb built between the fifth and third millennia BCE....
Dolmen of Sorginetxe
Agurain/Salvatierra, Álava, Spain
On the Alava Plain where the cultivated lowlands meet the rising slopes of the Entzia range, a dolmen of massive limestone slabs has stood for four and a half millennia....
Tholos de El Romeral
Antequera, Málaga, Spain
In the Antequera basin of Andalusia, the Tholos de El Romeral stands as one of the finest examples of corbelled megalithic architecture in Europe....
Cairn de Gavrinis
Kerners, Morbihan, France
On an island in the Gulf of Morbihan, Neolithic builders created something unprecedented: a passage tomb whose every stone is carved with spirals, concentric circles, and...
Casa di l’Urca
Haute-Corse, France
Casa di l'Urca is a Neolithic passage dolmen on the rocky ridge of Cima di Suarello in Corsica's Agriates desert — built approximately 3500 BC as a collective burial...
Dolmen de la Madeleine
Gennes, Maine-et-Loire, France
On the outskirts of Gennes, near the Loire, stands one of the larger dolmens in a region second only to Brittany for megalithic density....
Fontanaccia Dolmen
Sartène, Corse-du-Sud, France
On the wild Cauria plateau in southern Corsica, a massive granite slab rests on six vertical stones, creating a burial chamber that has stood for four millennia....
Grand Menhir Brisé d'Er Grah
Locmariaquer, Morbihan, France
Before the pyramids rose in Egypt, Neolithic peoples on the coast of Brittany erected a standing stone over twenty meters tall, weighing more than three hundred tonnes....
Menhir de Champ-Dolent
Dol-de-Bretagne, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Nine and a half meters of pinkish granite rise from a field near Dol-de-Bretagne—100 tonnes hauled four kilometers by people who left no written record....
Piève statue-menhirs
Haute-Corse, France
In the village of Piève in northern Corsica, three Bronze Age granite figures stand before the parish church of San Quilicu....
Santa Maria statue-menhir
Haute-Corse, France
At a crossroads in the Castagniccia village of Cambia, a slender schist standing stone has held its ground for millennia....
Statue-menhir of Tavera
Corse-du-Sud, France
The Tavera statue-menhir is a 2.42-metre anthropomorphic standing stone carved from fine-grained granite by Bronze Age inhabitants of the Gravone valley — considered one...
U Cantonu
Corse-du-Sud, France
At the entrance to the village of Pila-Canale, near its cemetery, two granite standing stones have kept watch for three and a half millennia....
Tmogvi Fortress and Church Landscape
Aspindza, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia
Tmogvi Fortress and Church Landscape is a documented archaeological site in Aspindza, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Uplistsikhe Cave Town
Gori, Shida Kartli, Georgia
Uplistsikhe Cave Town is a documented archaeological site in Gori, Shida Kartli, Georgia, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Dolmen Ciuledda
Luras, Sassari, Italy
In a valley northeast of Luras, a small megalithic structure has kept its chamber dry for nearly five millennia....
Dolmen di Billella o Bilella
Luras, Sassari, Italy
Among the vermentino and nebiolo vines that cover the hillsides near Luras, a Neolithic dolmen rises less than a meter from the earth....
Dolmen di Ladas
Luras, Sassari, Italy
Six meters of gallery. A covering slab nearly five meters long. A polished backing stone of fifteen square meters....
Dolmen Sa Coveccada
Mores, Sassari, Italy
On a trachyte plateau south of Mores, three massive slabs of grey-pink stone support an 18-tonne capstone....
Akyū Ruins
Hara, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Six thousand years ago, the Jomon people gathered here to tend sacred fires beneath the gaze of Mount Tateshina....
Komakino Stone Circle
Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Four thousand years ago, Jomon communities leveled a hilltop and arranged nearly three thousand stones in a configuration so distinctive that archaeologists named it the...
Masuda Iwafune, Asuka
Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Hidden in a bamboo forest near Asuka, an 800-ton carved granite boulder defies explanation. Who carved Masuda Iwafune? Why?...
Ōmori Katsuyama Stone Circle
Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Three thousand years ago, the Jomon people positioned this stone circle with extraordinary precision: on the shortest day of the year, the setting sun descends directly...
Ōyu Stone Circles
Kazuno, Akita Prefecture, Japan
On a plateau above the Oyu River in northern Japan, two stone circles have watched the summer solstice sun set along the same axis for 4,000 years....
Tabata Stone Circle
Machida, Tokyo, Japan
Five minutes from a Tokyo train station, a ring of stones marks where Jomon peoples gathered three thousand years ago....
Washinoki Stone Circle
Mori, Hokkaido, Japan
Beneath a highway tunnel in southwestern Hokkaido lies Japan's largest stone circle, a 4,000-year-old Jomon burial site that was nearly destroyed by modern construction....