Tradition guide
Prehistoric
Prehistoric sites connect places through shared lineage, practice, story, and pilgrimage across the global atlas.
311 sacred places share this lineage. Use the country and site-type filters to narrow in.
Atlas summary
Prehistoric sacred sites overview
Prehistoric sacred sites connect places through shared lineage, ritual use, memory, and pilgrimage practice across the Pilgrim Map atlas.
Use this page to compare country clusters, common place types, UNESCO-tagged landmarks, and the map distribution before exploring individual site pages.
| Coverage | 311 Prehistoric sacred places in the current atlas. |
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| UNESCO heritage | 4 UNESCO-tagged Prehistoric sites appear in this browse view. |
Showing 145-192 of 311 sites in this tradition guide
Hêtre de Ponthus
Concoret, Bretagne, France
For three centuries, the Hetre de Ponthus stood near the Fountain of Barenton in Broceliande forest, the only remarkable tree in the legendary wood directly connected to...
Hill o' Many Stanes
Lybster, Caithness, 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...
Hill of Tara
County Meath, The Municipal District of Ashbourne, Ireland
For over five thousand years, the Hill of Tara has stood as the axis mundi of Ireland, the place where earthly power touched the divine....
Hill of Uisnech
Loughnavalley, County Westmeath, Ireland
On a gentle hill in the heart of the Irish midlands, five provinces once met at a massive limestone boulder....
Horizont tumulus, Kozi Gramadi
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
The Horizont Tumulus near Starosel contains the only known Thracian heroon with a colonnade of Doric columns....
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....
Inglinge hög
Ingelstad, Kronobergs län, Sweden
Inglinge hog dominates its Smaland landscape: a burial mound thirty-seven meters across and six meters high, crowned by a standing stone and an ornate stone sphere known...
Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement
Sumburgh, Shetland, United Kingdom
At the southern tip of Mainland Shetland, where the land narrows to a low promontory above the sea, the ruins of Jarlshof spread across a headland that humans have called...
Jättakullen Hällkista Dolmen
Vårgårda kommun, Västra Götalands län, 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...
Juusjärvi Rock Painting
Kirkkonummi, Kirkkonummi – Uusimaa, Finland
On a sheer lakeside cliff seven kilometers north of Kirkkonummi, red ochre figures painted during the Bronze Age still hold their ground: paired human forms with raised...
Kapasaari Rock Painting
Kouvola, Mäntyharju – South Savo, Finland
On the single steep cliff of a small, uninhabited island in Lake Vuohijärvi, faded red figures include a human form with ambiguous horn- or ear-like marks above its head...
Karahantepe
Şanlıurfa, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey
Karahantepe is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in southeastern Turkey's Tek Tek Mountains, open to visitors since 2025, whose Pillar Shrine contains 11 T-shaped pillars...
Karahundj
Syunik Province, Armenia
On a high plateau above the Dar River canyon in Armenia's Syunik Province, 223 basalt stones stand in arrangements that have resisted definitive interpretation for decades....
Kenmare Stone Circle, Kenmare, Ireland
Kenmare, Kenmare Municipal District, Ireland
Fifteen stones form an egg-shaped ring in the heart of Kenmare town, enclosing a massive boulder-burial with a seven-ton capstone....
Kierikki Stone Age Centre
Yli-Ii (Oulu), Oulu / Yli-Ii – North Ostrobothnia, Finland
The Kierikki Stone Age Centre stands on the Iijoki river where a Neolithic community lived year-round from roughly 4000 to 3100 BC, overturning assumptions that Stone Age...
Kilclooney Dolmen, Ardara, Ireland
County Donegal, Glenties Municipal District, 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...
Kilmichael Glassary Cup and Ring Marks
Lochgilphead, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
On a sloping rock outcrop beside a village school in Argyll, over one hundred and fifty carvings wait in the stone....
Kilphedir Broch
Kilphedir, Sutherland, United Kingdom
High on a hillock above the Strath of Kildonan in Sutherland, a broch of pink granite commands views up and down the valley....
Kinnell stone circle, Killin
Killin, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
In a quiet pasture east of Killin village, six standing stones have held their positions for perhaps four thousand years....
Kit's Coty House
Aylesford, Aylesford, Kent, United Kingdom
Kit's Coty House is an Early Neolithic portal dolmen on a North Downs spur above the River Medway — three massive sarsen uprights and a capstone weighing several tonnes,...
Knap of Howar
Papa Westray, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
On the western shore of Papa Westray, one of Orkney's smallest inhabited islands, two stone buildings stand with their doorways facing the sea....
Knocknarea megalthic site, Sligo, Ireland
County Sligo, Sligo Municipal Borough District, Ireland
Knocknarea is a flat-topped mountain on the Sligo coast crowned by one of Ireland's largest unexcavated Neolithic cairns, traditionally identified as the burial place of...
Knockroe passage mound, Ireland
County Kilkenny, The Municipal District of Callan — Thomastown, Ireland
Knockroe is the only known passage tomb in Europe designed to capture both sunrise and sunset on the winter solstice....
Knowe of Lairo
Rousay, Orkney Islands, 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, Orkney Islands, 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....
Kokino
Staro Nagoričane municipality (Kumanovo), North Macedonia
Perched at 1,013 meters on a volcanic andesite summit in North Macedonia, Kokino is a 3,800-year-old megalithic observatory and ritual site where Bronze Age communities...
Körtik Tepe
Diyarbakır, Southeastern Anatolia / Tigris-Batman confluence, Turkey
Körtik Tepe is among the oldest known permanently settled communities on Earth, occupied for fifteen centuries during the Younger Dryas cold period at the confluence of...
Köşk Höyük
Niğde, Central Anatolia / Bor plain, Turkey
Beneath the volcanic profile of Mount Hasan on the Bor Plateau of Central Anatolia, Köşk Höyük preserves a rare sequence of Neolithic and Chalcolithic life spanning 1,500...
La Roche aux Fées
Essé, Brittany, France
Five thousand years ago, Neolithic builders hauled forty-tonne stones four kilometers to construct the largest dolmen in France....
La Table des Marchands, Locmariaquer, France
Locmariaquer, Brittany, France
On the Morbihan coast of Brittany lies one of Europe's most sophisticated Neolithic burial monuments....
Lanyon Quoit
Madron, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Lanyon Quoit rises from the West Penwith landscape like a statement from another age....
Las Monedas Cave
Puente Viesgo, Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain
Discovered in 1952 on the same hillside as El Castillo, Las Monedas holds a Magdalenian-period animal panel drawn in charcoal roughly 12,000 to 13,000 years ago —...
Leirfall rock carvings
Stjordal, Trøndelag, Norway
On a south-facing rock outcrop in central Norway, between nine hundred and twelve hundred figures carved over more than a millennium preserve the ritual life of Bronze Age...
Levänluhta
Isokyrö, Isokyrö / Orismala – Ostrobothnia, Finland
Levänluhta is a small, iron-stained spring near Isokyrö where, over several centuries of the Finnish Iron Age, a community placed the remains of roughly one hundred people...
Little Kit's Coty House
Aylesford, Aylesford, Kent, United Kingdom
Little Kit's Coty House — also called the Countless Stones — is the shattered remnant of a Neolithic chambered monument built around 4000 BCE on the North Downs above the...
Llech-y-tribedd
Moylgrove, Pembrokeshire, 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...
Loughcrew
County Meath, The Municipal District of Kells, Ireland
Loughcrew is one of Europe's largest concentrations of Neolithic passage tombs, spread across four hilltops named for the Cailleach, the divine hag of Irish mythology....
Luttra passage grave
Falköpings kommun, Västra Götalands län, 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...
Machrie Moor Stone Circles
Machrie, North Ayrshire, 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, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
On Mainland Orkney, a grass-covered mound rises seven metres above a surrounding ditch....
Marlborough Mound
Marlborough, England, United Kingdom
In the grounds of Marlborough College stands a 19-meter mound that most visitors to Wiltshire never see....
Megalithic Monuments of Alcalar
Portimão, Mexilhoeira Grande, Portimão, Faro / Algarve, Portugal
A roughly 10-hectare hilltop above the Algarve holds 17 to 18 megalithic tombs built and reused by Chalcolithic farming communities across more than a millennium, centered...
Megaliths of Carnac
Carnac, Brittany, France
The Megaliths of Carnac form the largest concentration of standing stones on Earth, over 3,000 menhirs arranged in rows stretching across the Brittany landscape....
Meini Hirion standing stones
Holyhead, Anglesey, United Kingdom
On Holy Island, at the western edge of Anglesey, two standing stones rise in near-identical form....
Mên-an-Tol
Morvah, Cornwall, United Kingdom
On the West Penwith moor, three stones stand against the sky—but it is the middle stone that draws seekers from around the world....
Menhir de Champ-Dolent
Dol-de-Bretagne, Brittany, 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....
Menhir of Almendres
Évora, Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe, Évora, Évora / Alentejo, Portugal
Ninety-some granite monoliths, worn smooth by six thousand years of weather, stand in two overlapping ellipses among the cork oaks west of Évora....
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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, Sweden, Turkey.
- What kinds of places are included?
- Common place types include dolmen, stone circle, archaeological site, broch, rock art site, chambered cairn.
- Can I map Prehistoric sacred sites?
- Yes. Compare country clusters and site types first, then open individual pages for coordinates, historical context, and visitor guidance.