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 289-311 of 311 sites in this tradition guide
Tombeau de Merlin
Paimpont, Bretagne, France
Deep in Broceliande forest, two red schist stones mark where Viviane imprisoned Merlin in a tomb of air....
Torrylin Cairn
Kilmory, North Ayrshire, United Kingdom
On the south coast of Arran, beside the quiet waters of Kilmory Water, a low arrangement of stones marks where Neolithic communities brought their dead....
Trellyffaint Burial Chamber
Nevern, Pembrokeshire, 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....
Trollasten Dos Dolmen
Köpingebro, Skåne län, Sweden
The Trollasten dolmen rises from a farmer's field near Ystad in southern Sweden, a single capstone balanced on six uprights since roughly 3300 BCE....
Tumulus of Bougon, Bougon, France
Bougon, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Before the pyramids, before Stonehenge, the Neolithic people of western France were building monuments to their dead....
U Cantonu
Pila-Canale / Corse-du-Sud / Corsica, France
At the entrance to the village of Pila-Canale, near its cemetery, two granite standing stones have kept watch for three and a half millennia....
Ughtasar Petroglyphs, Armenia
Syunik Province, Armenia
Above three thousand metres on the slopes of an extinct volcano in Armenia's Syunik Province, over two thousand rock fragments carry carvings made across millennia —...
Uittamonsalmi Rock Painting
Mikkeli, Ristiina / Mikkeli area – South Savo, Finland
Four separate clusters of Stone Age painting — a legless moose, paired boats, horned human figures, and a striking ring-headed form — stretch across 250 meters of rock...
Ullastret Iberian City
Ullastret, Ullastret, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Ullastret is a walled hilltop settlement of the Indigetes, the Iberian people who ruled this stretch of Catalan coast before Rome....
Unstan Chambered Cairn
Stenness, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Unstan Chambered Cairn stands on a promontory reaching into the Loch of Stenness, where Neolithic communities placed their dead between land and water for over a thousand...
Upper Borgue Broch
Dunbeath, Caithness, United Kingdom
Behind the farm of Upper Borgue in the Caithness countryside near Dunbeath, a large mound rises between three and four metres high....
Värikallio Rock Paintings
Suomussalmi (Hossa), Suomussalmi / Hossa – Kainuu, Finland
On a sheer rock face above Lake Somerjärvi in Finland's far northeast, Bronze Age hunters painted more than sixty figures in red ochre and blood — elk, hand prints, and...
Västra Strö Stone Circle
Eslövs kommun, Skåne län, Sweden
On a low mound in the flat agricultural plain northwest of Eslov, seven stones form a circle erected by a Viking Age farmer named Fader to honor his dead brother and...
Vätteryd grave field
Tjörnarp, Skåne län, Sweden
Skane's largest Iron Age grave field spreads across open heathland between Tjornarp and Sosdala. Fifteen stone ships point toward unseen horizons....
Vinquoy Chambered Cairn
Eday, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
On the summit of Vinquoy Hill, the highest point on the island of Eday in Orkney, a Neolithic chambered cairn commands views across Calf Sound and the northern isles....
Vrångstads Long Dolmen
Tanums kommun, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
On a rocky hilltop near Bottna in Sweden's Tanum municipality, a twenty-three-meter-long dolmen with nine surrounding menhirs has anchored the landscape in ancestral...
White Horse Stone
Boxley, Aylesford/Boxley, Kent, United Kingdom
White Horse Stone is a sarsen megalith near Aylesford, Kent — one of the oldest surviving prehistoric monuments in southern England....
Xerez Cromlech
Reguengos de Monsaraz, Monsaraz, Reguengos de Monsaraz, Évora / Alentejo, Portugal
Fifty-five granite menhirs encircle a central stone nearly 4.5 meters tall in a rare square rather than circular plan, near the village of Telheiro in the Alqueva region....
Yarrows Broch
Thrumster, Caithness, United Kingdom
On a promontory jutting into the Loch of Yarrows, a broch stands at the centre of one of the richest archaeological landscapes in northern Scotland....
Yeşilova Höyük
İzmir, Western Anatolia / Aegean, Turkey
Yeşilova Höyük is a Neolithic and Chalcolithic tell mound in Bornova, İzmir, occupied from around 6500 to 4000 BC....
Yli-Ii Kierikki Settlement Area
Yli-Ii (Oulu), Oulu / Yli-Ii – North Ostrobothnia, Finland
Beyond the reconstructed village at the Kierikki Stone Age Centre lies the real thing: an extensive Neolithic settlement landscape along the Iijoki river with more than...
Yockenthwaite stone circle
Buckden, England, United Kingdom
Hidden in the remote valley of Langstrothdale, the Yockenthwaite Stone Circle marks a four-thousand-year-old burial site where Bronze Age peoples laid their dead to rest....
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Previous pageKey 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.