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Prehistoric
Prehistoric sites connect places through shared lineage, practice, story, and pilgrimage across the global atlas.
345 sacred places share this lineage. Use the country links to narrow in.
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Prehistoric sacred sites connect places through shared lineage, ritual use, memory, and pilgrimage practice across the Pilgrim Map atlas.
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Dolmen de Lácara
La Nava de Santiago, Badajoz, Spain
Raised from seven granite orthostats on the Extremaduran meseta between the late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, the Dolmen de Lácara is among the largest and...
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 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 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 Carapito I
Aguiar da Beira, Guarda, Portugal
Near the village of Carapito, a ten-sided polygonal chamber over five metres tall holds two pillars carved with solar and serpentine motifs — among the clearest surviving...
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 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 Pendilhe
Vila Nova de Paiva, Viseu, Portugal
Nine upright stones enclose the chamber of the Anta de Pendilhe, built by farming communities of the Alto Paiva region around 2900-2640 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....
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....
Domus de Janas di Borucca
Budduso, Sassari, Italy
Near the village of Budduso in northeastern Sardinia, a burial chamber carved from granite five thousand years ago tilts on its displaced boulder — a house for the dead...
Domus de janas, Sas Concas
Onieri/Oniferi, Nuoro, Italy
In a red trachyte outcrop near Oniferi, 20 rock-cut chambers hold one of Sardinia's most mysterious collections of prehistoric art....
Dowth
County Meath, Meath, Ireland
Dowth is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Republic of Ireland. Dowth is interpreted here through Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions....
Dragon Hill
Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom
Below Britain's oldest chalk figure, a small hill rises with a mystery at its summit. This is Dragon Hill, where legend says St George killed England's last dragon....
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....
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....
Dún Aonghasa
County Galway, County Galway, Ireland
Dún Aonghasa stands in Republic of Ireland as a major prehistoric site. At Dún Aonghasa, Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions provides the public sacred context....
Dun Beag, Struan, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Struan, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a windswept hilltop above Struan, the dry-stone walls of Dun Beag have stood for over two thousand years....
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....
Dunbeath Broch
Dunbeath, Scotland, 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....
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....
Dwarfie Stane (Dwarf's Stone)
Hoy, Scotland, United Kingdom
In a steep-sided valley on the island of Hoy, a massive block of red sandstone lies in desolate peatland....
Eamhain Mhacha
Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Rising above the Armagh countryside, this ceremonial hilltop was the spiritual and mythological heart of ancient Ulster....
Ekain Cave
Deba, Gipuzkoa, Spain
Deep in a Basque limestone hill, Magdalenian hunters created one of the world's great concentrations of Palaeolithic cave art....
Ekornavallen
Falköpings kommun, Västra Götaland, Sweden
In the pastoral landscape between Falköping and Varnhem, a single burial ground holds monuments spanning four millennia....
El Castillo Cave
Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain
On a hillside above Puente Viesgo, El Castillo Cave preserves more than 150,000 years of intermittent human presence and a red ochre disk dated to over 40,800 years old —...
El Pindal Cave
Ribadedeva, Asturias, Spain
El Pindal Cave opens above the Cantabrian coast near Ribadedeva, Asturias, its narrow gallery carrying Magdalenian-period paintings made roughly 18,000 to 13,000 years ago....
Fernworthy Stone Circle
West Devon, England, United Kingdom
Hidden within a Dartmoor forest clearing, Fernworthy Stone Circle has stood for four thousand years....
Filitosa
Sollacaro, Corse-du-Sud, France
On a Corsican hillside overlooking the Taravo valley, twenty menhirs stand as witness to 8,000 years of human presence....
Fingal’s Cave, Island of Staffa, Scotland
Staffa Island, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the uninhabited island of Staffa, a sea cave lined with hexagonal basalt columns has drawn pilgrims for over two centuries....
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....
Fonte Sacra Su Tempiesu
Orune, Nuoro, Italy
In the countryside near Orune, a sacred spring flows through the only Nuragic well-temple to preserve its original elevated structures....
Forest of Paimpont (Broceliande Forest)
Paimpont, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
In the heart of Brittany, the forest once called Broceliande holds the most complete surviving landscape of Arthurian enchantment in Western Europe....
Foret de Huelgoat (Huelgoat High Forest)
Huelgoat, Finistère, France
In the heart of Brittany, a forest of moss-covered boulders and hidden caves has drawn seekers for millennia....
Ganghwa Dolmen Site
Ganghwa-gun, Incheon, South Korea
Ganghwa Dolmen Sites form the island component of UNESCO serial property 977. The famous Bugeun-ri table dolmen is one representative monument, not the entire component....
Giant’s Grave of Sa Domu e s’Orcu
Quartùcciu/Quartucciu, Cagliari, Italy
Rising from the forested slopes of the Sette Fratelli mountains, the Giants' Grave of Is Concias preserves one of Sardinia's finest examples of Nuragic collective burial....
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' Grave of Sa Domu e s'Orcu
Siddi, South Sardinia, Italy
In the Marmilla region of southern-central Sardinia, a megalithic gallery grave bears a name that speaks of ancient awe: Sa Domu e s'Orcu—the House of the Ogre....
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....
Göbekli Tepe
Haliliye, Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Göbekli Tepe is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic hilltop sanctuary in southeastern Turkey, built approximately 12,000 years ago by mobile hunter-gatherer communities who carved...
Gochang Dolmen Site
Kochang, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea
Gochang holds the largest and most varied component of UNESCO’s serial Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites....
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....
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....
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Key questions
Prehistoric sacred-site questions
What are Prehistoric sacred sites?
Prehistoric sacred sites are places connected by shared lineage, practice, memory, ritual use, or pilgrimage tradition.
Where can I find Prehistoric sacred sites?
The strongest country clusters in this guide include United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, France, Ireland, Sweden.
What kinds of places are included?
The guide includes sacred landscapes, pilgrimage places, and ritual or historical sites where available.
Can I map Prehistoric sacred sites?
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