Physical form
Archaeological place
168 sacred places classified as archaeological place in Pilgrim Map. This category includes related, more specific forms.
Yubunezawa Stone Circle
Takizawa, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Four thousand years ago, Jomon peoples of northern Japan established this ground exclusively for the dead and for ceremony....
Tamgaly Archaeological Landscape
Karabastau, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan
Tamgaly Archaeological Landscape is a documented archaeological site in Karabastau, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Terekti Aulie Petroglyphs
Terekty, Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan
Terekti Aulie Petroglyphs is a documented archaeological site in Terekty, Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Saymaluu-Tash Petroglyphs
Kazarman, Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan
Saymaluu-Tash Petroglyphs is a documented archaeological site in Kazarman, Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Malinalco Archaeological Zone
Malinalco, State of Mexico, Mexico
Malinalco Archaeological Zone preserves a Mexica ceremonial and military complex above the town of Malinalco....
Templo Mayor Archaeological Zone and Museum
Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Templo Mayor Archaeological Zone and Museum preserves the principal ceremonial complex of Mexico-Tenochtitlan....
Tlatelolco Archaeological Zone
Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Tlatelolco Archaeological Zone preserves the ceremonial centre of México-Tlatelolco, a Mexica city founded around 1337 beside Tenochtitlan....
Tula Archaeological Zone
Tula de Allende, Hidalgo, Mexico
Tula Archaeological Zone protects the monumental heart of Tollan-Xicocotitlan, the great Toltec capital that flourished in central Mexico during the Early Postclassic....
Adam's Calendar stone ring
Mbombela, Mpumalanga, South Africa
No description available yet.
Bongnimsa Temple Site, Changwon
Changwon, Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
Bongnimsa Temple Site, Changwon is a protected archaeological temple site with relocated monuments in Changwon, South Korea....
Gulsansa Temple Site, Gangneung
Gangneung, Gangneung, Gangwon-do, South Korea
Gulsansa Temple Site, Gangneung is a protected archaeological temple site within a living agricultural landscape in Gangneung, South Korea....
Seongjusa Temple Site, Boryeong
Boryeong, Boryeong, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea
Seongjusa Temple Site, Boryeong is a protected archaeological temple site in Boryeong, South Korea....
Dolmen de Soto
Trigueros, Huelva, Spain
Dolmen de Soto is a Chalcolithic passage grave near Trigueros, Huelva, built around 2500-3000 BC by dismantling and repurposing an even older sanctuary of standing stones....
Dolmen of Axeitos
Ribeira, A Coruña, Spain
Raised roughly six thousand years ago on Galicia's Barbanza Peninsula, the Dolmen of Axeitos is a Neolithic portal tomb of eight granite orthostats supporting a single...
Dolmen of Dombate
Cabana de Bergantiños, A Coruña, Spain
Built and enlarged across the 4th millennium BCE on Galicia's Costa da Morte, the Dombate dolmen holds one of the rarest survivals in Iberian megalithic art: painted...
Dolmen of Merillés
Tineo, Tineo, Asturias, Spain
No description available yet.
S'Aigua Dolça Dolmen
Artà, Balearic Islands, Spain
S'Aigua Dolca is a Bronze Age dolmen near the coast of northeastern Mallorca. Excavation in 1995 and 1996 documented a stone chamber used for collective burial, with...
Havängsdösen Dolmen
Simrishamns kommun, Skåne, Sweden
Havangsdosen stands on the wind-swept Osterlen steppe above the Baltic Sea, a 5,500-year-old dolmen whose chamber opening faces the sunrise on the spring and autumn...
Jättakullen Hällkista Dolmen
Vårgårda kommun, Västra Götaland, Sweden
Jattakullen rises from a hilltop between the Nossan river and the plains of Vastergotland, its fourteen-meter stone cist making it the largest hallkista in the entire...
Luttra passage grave
Falköpings kommun, Västra Götaland, Sweden
The Luttra passage grave sits in the Falbygden landscape of Vastergotland, where roughly two-thirds of all Sweden's passage graves are concentrated within a...
Proto-urban Site of Sarazm
Sarazm / Panjakent, Sughd Region, Tajikistan
Proto-urban Site of Sarazm is a documented archaeological site in Sarazm / Panjakent, Sughd Region, Tajikistan, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Gonur Depe Palace-Temple Complex
Gonur, Mary Region, Turkmenistan
Gonur Depe Palace-Temple Complex is a documented archaeological site in Gonur, Mary Region, Turkmenistan, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Merv Oasis
Ancient Merv / Bayramaly, Mary Region, Turkmenistan
Ancient City of Merv is a documented archaeological site in Ancient Merv / Bayramaly, Mary Region, Turkmenistan, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Seyit Jemaleddin Mosque Ruins
Anau, Ahal Region, Turkmenistan
Seyit Jemaleddin Mosque Ruins is a documented archaeological site in Anau, Ahal Region, Turkmenistan, connected with Historical regional religious traditions....
Auchagallon Curved Cairn
Machrie, Scotland, 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....
Auchencar Standing Stone
Machrie, Scotland, 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...
Avebury
Avebury, England, United Kingdom
Avebury surrounds you rather than keeping you at a distance. Unlike its famous neighbor Stonehenge, this vast Neolithic monument invites you to walk among its massive...
Ballymeanoch Neolithic site, Kilmartin Glen
Kilmartin, 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....
Ballynaglogh Standing Stones, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland
Causeway Coast and Glens District, Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireann, United Kingdom
No description available yet.
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....
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn
Rousay, Scotland, United Kingdom
On Rousay's southern coast, a short walk from the road, Blackhammer Chambered Cairn sits beneath its modern protective shelter....
Bodowyr Dolmen
Llangaffo, 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....
Boscawen-un Stone Circle
St Buryan, England, 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....
Brisworthy Stone Circle
Shaugh Prior, England, 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....
Brora Pictish Cairn
Brora, Scotland, 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...
Cairn of Get
Ulbster, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a windswept hillside in Scotland's far north, a stone chamber has held its silence for over five thousand years....
Camster Cairns
Lybster, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the windswept peatlands of Caithness, two stone cairns rise from the heather as they have for over five thousand years....
Camster Cairns - The Long Cairn
Part of Camster Cairns
Lybster, Scotland, 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....
Camster Cairns - The Round Cairn
Part of Camster Cairns
Lybster, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the peatlands of Caithness, a circular mound of grey stone rises from the heather....
Carwynnen Quoit
Camborne, England, 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....
Castlerigg stone ring
Keswick, England, United Kingdom
On a plateau near Keswick in the Lake District, forty stones form one of Britain's earliest and most atmospheric prehistoric monuments....
Chun Quoit
Bojewyan, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the West Penwith moorland, Chun Quoit is Cornwall's best-preserved Neolithic chambered tomb....
Clava Cairns
Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom
Set in a woodland clearing near Inverness, the Clava Cairns stand as monuments to Bronze Age beliefs about death and rebirth....
Clynnog Fawr Dolmen
Clynnog Fawr, Wales, United Kingdom
On a hillside between mountains and sea near Clynnog Fawr, a Neolithic burial chamber has stood for over five thousand years....
Corrimony Cairn
Drumnadrochit, Scotland, United Kingdom
Hidden in a quiet Highland glen, Corrimony Chambered Cairn has kept watch over its buried dead for four thousand years....
Croft Moraig Stone Circle, Aberfeldy
Aberfeldy, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the shores of Loch Tay, three concentric rings of stone mark a place held sacred for five millennia....
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn
Kirkwall, Scotland, 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....
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...
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...
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....
Dunamuck North Stone Row
Kilmartin, Scotland, 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....
Dunamuck South Stone Row
Kilmichael Glassary, Scotland, United Kingdom
On level ground beside the River Add, two massive stone slabs stand where Bronze Age hands raised them four thousand years ago....
Dunchraigaig Cairn
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
In one of Scotland's most concentrated sacred landscapes, Dunchraigaig Cairn has held the dead for four thousand years....
Easter Aquorthies Stone Ring
Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
No description available yet.
Fernworthy Stone Circle
West Devon, England, United Kingdom
Hidden within a Dartmoor forest clearing, Fernworthy Stone Circle has stood for four thousand years....
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....
Giants' Graves
Whiting Bay, Scotland, 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....
Glebe Cairn
Kilmartin, Scotland, 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....
Gors Fawr stone ring, Mynachlog-ddu, Dyfed, England
Mynachlog-ddu, Wales, 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....