Physical form
Megalithic structure
132 sacred places classified as megalithic structure in Pilgrim Map. This form sits within archaeological place.
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....
Hill o' Many Stanes
Lybster, Scotland, 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...
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....
Kinnell stone circle, Killin
Killin, Scotland, United Kingdom
In a quiet pasture east of Killin village, six standing stones have held their positions for perhaps four thousand years....
Knowe of Lairo
Rousay, Scotland, 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...
Knowe of Yarso
Rousay, Scotland, 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....
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....
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...
Machrie Moor Stone Circles
Machrie, Scotland, 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...
Maeshowe Chambered Cairn
Stenness, Scotland, United Kingdom
On Mainland Orkney, a grass-covered mound rises seven metres above a surrounding ditch....
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....
Midhowe Chambered Cairn
Rousay, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the western shore of Rousay, sheltered beneath a modern protective roof, lies the largest stalled cairn in Orkney....
Mor Stein
Shapinsay, Scotland, 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....
Moss Farm Road Stone Circle
Machrie, Scotland, 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....
Nether Largie Mid Cairn
Kilmartin, Scotland, 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...
Nether Largie North Cairn
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nether Largie North Cairn stands second in a line of five burial monuments stretching through Kilmartin Glen in Argyll, Scotland....
Nether Largie South Cairn
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
In the heart of Kilmartin Glen, Nether Largie South Cairn has held its ground for more than five thousand years....
Nether Largie standing stones, Argyll, Scotland
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
Five massive stones stand in an X-shaped pattern at the heart of Kilmartin Glen, mainland Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape....
Nine Ladies Stone Circle
Stanton in Peak, England, United Kingdom
Nine Ladies is an Early Bronze Age stone circle on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire, set within a much wider prehistoric landscape of barrows, cairns, and 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....
Quoyness Chambered Cairn
Sanday, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the Elsness peninsula of Sanday, one of Orkney's northern isles, a chambered cairn of exceptional preservation stands near the shore....
Ri Cruin Cairn
Kilmartin, Scotland, 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...
Ring of Bookan
Stromness, Scotland, 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...
Rollright Stones
West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Three prehistoric monuments spanning nearly two thousand years crown this Cotswold ridge: a stone circle, a solitary king, and whispering knights plotting in stone....
Rudston Monolith
Rudston, England, United Kingdom
Rising nearly eight meters from a Yorkshire churchyard, the Rudston Monolith has anchored human spiritual activity for over four millennia....
Standing Stone of Hollandstoun
North Ronaldsay, Scotland, 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....
Standing Stones of Stenness
Stenness, Scotland, 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....
Stone 'O Quoybune
Birsay, Scotland, 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....
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...
Taversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn
Rousay, Scotland, United Kingdom
Near the pier at Trumland, on a hillside above Rousay's southern coast, Taversoe Tuick conceals an architectural anomaly....