Physical form
Dolmen
27 sacred places classified as dolmen in Pilgrim Map. This form sits within megalithic structure.
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...
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....
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....
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....
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
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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...
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....
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....
Chun Quoit
Bojewyan, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the West Penwith moorland, Chun Quoit is Cornwall's best-preserved Neolithic chambered tomb....
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....
Lanyon Quoit
Madron, England, United Kingdom
Lanyon Quoit rises from the West Penwith landscape like a statement from another age....
Llech-y-tribedd
Moylgrove, Wales, United Kingdom
Rising from a quiet Pembrokeshire hillside, Llech-y-tribedd is a portal dolmen built by Neolithic farming communities around 4000 BCE....
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....