Agricultural structures, mines and roads

• Bathampton Down
  Bathampton Down
  Bathampton Down, is a flat limestone plateau in Bathampton overlooking Bath, and the River Avon, Somerset, England.There is evidence of man's activity at the site since the Mesolithic period including Bathampton Camp, an Iron Age hillfort or stock enclosure...
  
  , Iron Age earth enclosure with Bronze Age
  Bronze Age
  The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons. Chronologically, it stands between the Stone Age and Iron Age...
  
   round barrow
  Round barrow
  Round barrows are one of the most common types of archaeological monuments. Although concentrated in Europe they are found in many parts of the world because of their simple construction and universal purpose....
  
  s in the area.
• Bindon Hill
  Bindon Hill
  Bindon Hill is an extensive Iron Age earthwork enclosing a coastal hill area near Lulworth Cove in Dorset, England.- Location :The Hill is located about 19 kilometres west of Swanage, about six kilometres south west of Wareham and about 17 kilometres south east of Dorchester.Bindon Hill is only...
  
  , Iron Age earth enclosure.
• Great Orme
  Great Orme
  The Great Orme is a prominent limestone headland on the north coast of Wales situated in Llandudno. It is referred to as Cyngreawdr Fynydd in a poem by the 12th century poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr...
  
  , Bronze Age copper mines and an Iron Age hill fort
  Hill fort
  A hill fort is a type of earthworks used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. They are typically European and of the Bronze and Iron Ages. Some were used in the post-Roman period...
  
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• Grimes Graves
  Grimes Graves
  Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex near Brandon in England close to the border between Norfolk and Suffolk. It was worked between around circa 3000 BC and circa 1900 BC, although production may have continued well into the Bronze and Iron Ages owing to the low cost of flint...
  
  , Neolithic flint mining complex.
• The Ridgeway
  The Ridgeway
  thumb|right|thumb|The ancient tree-lined path winds over the downs countrysideThe Ridgeway is a ridgeway or ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road...
  
  , ancient trackway.
• Sweet Track
  Sweet Track
  The Sweet Track is an ancient causeway in the Somerset Levels, England. It was built in 3807 or 3806 BC and has been claimed to be the oldest road in the world. It was the oldest timber trackway discovered in Northern Europe until the 2009 discovery of a 6,000 year-old trackway in Belmarsh Prison...
  
  , ancient causeway.
• Tarr Steps
  Tarr Steps
  The Tarr Steps are a prehistoric clapper bridge across the River Barle in the Exmoor National Park, Somerset, England. They are located in a National Nature Reserve about south east of Withypool and north west of Dulverton....
  
  , late Bronze Age clapper bridge.

Burial structures

• Barclodiad y Gawres
  Barclodiad y Gawres
  Barclodiad y Gawres is a Neolithic burial chamber on the coast of the island of Anglesey in North Wales. It is an example of a cruciform passage grave, a notable feature being its decorated stones...
  
  , Neolithic cruciform passage grave
  Cruciform passage grave
  Cruciform passage graves describe a complex example of prehistoric passage grave found in Ireland, west Wales and Orkney and built during the later Neolithic, from around 3500 BC and later....
  
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• Belas Knap
  Belas Knap
  Belas Knap is a neolithic chambered long barrow, situated on Cleeve Hill, near Cheltenham and Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire, England. It is a scheduled ancient monument in the care of English Heritage but managed by Gloucestershire County Council. "Belas" is possibly derived from the Latin word...
  
  , Neolithic long barrow
  Long barrow
  A long barrow is a prehistoric monument dating to the early Neolithic period. They are rectangular or trapezoidal tumuli or earth mounds traditionally interpreted as collective tombs...
  
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• Bryn Celli Ddu
  Bryn Celli Ddu
  Bryn Celli Ddu is a prehistoric site on the Welsh island of Anglesey located near Llanddaniel Fab. Its name means 'the mound in the dark grove'. It was plundered in 1699 and archaeologically excavated between 1928 and 1929....
  
  , Bronze Age passage grave on the site of a Neolithic stone circle and henge.
• Clava cairn
  Clava cairn
  The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of 3 cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness in Scotland. There are about 50 cairns of this type in an area round about Inverness...
  
  , Bronze Age circular chamber tomb
  Chamber tomb
  A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures. In the case of individual burials, the chamber is thought to signify a higher status for the interree than a simple grave. Built from rock or sometimes wood, the chambers could also serve as places for storage of the dead from one...
  
   cairn
  Cairn
  Cairn is a term used mainly in the English-speaking world for a man-made pile of stones. It comes from the or . Cairns are found all over the world in uplands, on moorland, on mountaintops, near waterways and on sea cliffs, and also in barren desert and tundra areas...
  
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• Duggleby Howe
  Duggleby Howe
  Duggleby Howe is one of thelargest round barrows in Britain, located on thesouthern side of the Great Wold Valley in the district of Ryedale, and isone of four such monuments in this area, known collectively as the...
  
  , round barrow.
• Fairy Toot
  Fairy Toot
  The Fairy Toot is an extensive oval barrow in the village of Nempnett Thrubwell, Somerset, England.It is an example of the Severn-Cotswold tomb type which consist of precisely-built, long trapezoid earth mounds covering a burial chamber...
  
  , oval barrow
• Julliberrie's Grave
  Julliberrie's Grave
  Julliberrie's Grave is an unchambered earthen Neolithic long barrow in the English county of Kent. It is situated near Chilham overlooking the River Stour on the Julliberrie Downs at Ordnance Survey, . The Stour Valley Walk passes close to the site....
  
  , unchambered earthen Neolithic long barrow
  Long barrow
  A long barrow is a prehistoric monument dating to the early Neolithic period. They are rectangular or trapezoidal tumuli or earth mounds traditionally interpreted as collective tombs...
  
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• Lanyon Quoit
  Lanyon Quoit
  Lanyon Quoit is a dolmen in Cornwall, 2 miles southeast of Morvah. It stands next to the road leading from Madron to Morvah. In the 18th century, the structure was tall enough for a person on horse back to stand under. The capstone rested at 7 feet high with dimensions of 9 feet by 17.5 feet...
  
  , dolmen
  Dolmen
  A dolmen—also known as a portal tomb, portal grave, dolmain , cromlech , anta , Hünengrab/Hünenbett , Adamra , Ispun , Hunebed , dös , goindol or quoit—is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of...
  
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• Maeshowe
  Maeshowe
  Maeshowe is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. The monuments around Maeshowe, including Skara Brae, were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. It gives its name to the Maeshowe type of chambered cairn, which is limited to Orkney...
  
  , Neolithic chambered cairn
  Chambered cairn
  A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a cairn of stones inside which a sizeable chamber was constructed. Some chambered cairns are also passage-graves....
  
   and passage grave
  Passage grave
  thumb|250px|right|A simple passage tomb in [[Carrowmore]] near [[Sligo]] in IrelandA passage grave or passage tomb consists of a narrow passage made of large stones and one or multiple burial chambers covered in earth or stone. Megaliths are usually used in the construction of passage tombs, which...
  
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• Pentre Ifan
  Pentre Ifan
  Pentre Ifan is the name of an ancient manor in the civil parish of Nevern, in North Pembrokeshire, West Wales. It contains the largest and best preserved neolithic dolmen in Wales.-History:...
  
  , Neolithic dolmen.
• Seven Barrows
  Seven Barrows
  thumb|300px|right|A view of four of the barrowsSeven Barrows, situated just North of Lambourn, Berkshire, England, is a site of a Bronze Age cemetery. Excavators have found that one grave alone contained the cremated remains of 100 individuals dating from 2200 BC. The site lies along the Lambourn...
  
  , site of bowl barrows, bell barrows, saucer barrows and disc barrows.
• St Lythans
  St Lythans
  St Lythans is an affluent hamlet and former parish in the Vale of Glamorgan, southeast Wales, just outside of western Cardiff. It lies southwest of Culverhouse Cross, west of Wenvoe and southwest of Twyn-yr-Odyn and is also connected by road from Dyffryn and the Five Mile Lane in the west...
  
  , Neolithic dolmen.
• Stoney Littleton Long Barrow
  Stoney Littleton Long Barrow
  The Stoney Littleton Long Barrow is a Neolithic chambered tomb with multiple burial chambers, located near the village of Wellow, Somerset. It is an example of the Severn-Cotswold tomb....
  
  , Neolithic chambered tomb
• Tinkinswood
  Tinkinswood
  Tinkinswood or its full name Tinkinswood Burial Chamber , also known as Castell Carreg, Llech-y-Filiast and Maes-y-Filiast, is a megalithic burial chamber, built around 6,000 BP , during the Neolithic period, in the Vale of Glamorgan, near Cardiff, Wales.The structure is called a dolmen, which was...
  
  , Neolithic dolmen.
• Trethevy Quoit
  Trethevy Quoit
  Trethevy Quoit is a well-preserved megalithic tomb located near St Cleer, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is known locally as "the giant's house". Standing high, it consists of five standing stones capped by a large slab.-Location:...
  
  , Neolithic burial chamber.
• Wayland's Smithy
  Wayland's Smithy
  Wayland's Smithy is a Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb site located near the Uffington White Horse and Uffington Castle, at Ashbury in the English county of Oxfordshire ....
  
  , Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb.
• West Kennet Long Barrow
  West Kennet Long Barrow
  The West Kennet Long Barrow is a Neolithic tomb or barrow, situated on a prominent chalk ridge, near Silbury Hill, one-and-a-half miles south of Avebury in Wiltshire, England. The site was recorded by John Aubrey in the 17th century and by William Stukeley in the 18th century.Archaeologists...
  
  , Neolithic chambered long barrow.

Causewayed enclosures

• Coombe Hill, East Sussex
  Coombe Hill, East Sussex
  Coombe Hill or Combe Hill is the name of a hill near Jevington in the English county of East Sussex. It is the site of a Neolithic causewayed enclosure and much later archaeological evidence....
  
  
• Flagstones
  Flagstones
  Flagstones is a late Neolithic interrupted ditch enclosure in the English county of Dorset. The enclosure is formed by a ring of pits dug into the chalk bedrock, with 'causeways' between the pits. Half of the enclosure was discovered beneath the site of the demolished Flagstones House in advance...
  
  
• Hembury
  Hembury
  Hembury is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure near Honiton in Devon. It dates from the late fifth and early fourth millennia BC onwards to the Roman Invasion. The fort is situated on a promontory to the North of and overlooking the River Otter Valley at approx 178 Metres above Sea Level.It has given...
  
  
• Robin Hood's Ball
  Robin Hood's Ball
  Robin Hood’s Ball is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It is approximately 5 miles from the town of Amesbury, and 2.5 miles from Stonehenge.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Stonehenge
  Stonehenge
  Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks...
  
  
• Windmill Hill
  Windmill Hill
  Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, situated around 1 mile north west of Avebury. It is the largest example of its type in the British Isles enclosing an area of 85,000 square metres...
  
  
• White Sheet Hill, Wiltshire

Hill forts

• Badbury Rings
  Badbury Rings
  Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort in east Dorset, England, dating from 800 BC and in use until the Roman occupation of 43 AD.-Iron Age:...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort
  Hill fort
  A hill fort is a type of earthworks used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. They are typically European and of the Bronze and Iron Ages. Some were used in the post-Roman period...
  
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• Barbury Castle
  Barbury Castle
  Barbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort situated in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several such forts found along the ancient Ridgeway route. The site, which lies within the Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, has been managed as a country park by Swindon Borough Council since 1971...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Bat's Castle
  Bat's Castle
  Bats Castle is an Iron Age hill fort at the top of a high hill in the parish of Carhampton south south west of Dunster in Somerset, England.The site was identified in 1983 after some schoolboys found eight silver plated coins dating from 102BC to AD350....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Beacon Hill, Burghclere, Hampshire
  Beacon Hill, Burghclere, Hampshire
  Beacon Hill is near the village of Burghclere and Watership Down, in north Hampshire. The hill's name is derived from the fact that it was one of many Beacon Hills in England and beyond. This hill was once the site of the most famous beacon in Hampshire. It is 261 metres high and has one of...
  
  , late Bronze Age hill fort.
• Berry Castle, Weare Giffard, Iron Age hill fort
• Black Ball Camp
  Black Ball Camp
  Black Ball Camp is an Iron Age hill fort South West of Dunster, Somerset, England on the northern summit of Gallox Hill. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort
• Blackbury Camp
  Blackbury Camp
  Blackbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort situated near Seaton, Devon, England. The ramparts are still relatively high, showing an unusual entrance feature. The fort occupies the end of a large ridge at some above sea level. It was defended by a single bank and ditch, forming a roughly D-shaped...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Blacker's Hill
  Blacker's Hill
  Blacker's Hill Chilcompton is an Iron Age hill fort South West of Radstock, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Brean Down
  Brean Down
  Brean Down is a promontory off the coast of Somerset standing high and extending into the Bristol Channel at the eastern end of Bridgwater Bay between Weston-super-Mare and Burnham-on-Sea....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Brent Knoll
  Brent Knoll Camp
  Brent Knoll Camp is an Iron Age Hill fort at Brent Knoll, from Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument , and is now in the care of the National Trust....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Burledge Hill
  Burledge Hill
  Burledge Hill is on the southern edge of the village of Bishop Sutton, Somerset, England. It is the site of a Site of Special Scientific Interest and an univallate Iron Age hillfort.-Site of Special Scientific Interest:...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Bury Castle, Somerset
  Bury Castle, Somerset
  Bury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort and 12th medieval century castle near Selworthy, Somerset, England.-Iron Age:Bury Castle was built as a promontory fort, situated over the meeting of the River Exe and River Haddeo. Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Cadbury Camp
  Cadbury Camp
  Cadbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort in Somerset, England, near the village of Tickenham. Local legends associate it with Arthurian England and Camelot, though these may be due to confusion with the better-known Cadbury Castle, near South Cadbury some 50 miles to the south. The hill fort is well...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Cadbury Castle, Somerset
  Cadbury Castle, Somerset
  Cadbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort in the civil parish of South Cadbury in the English county of Somerset. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and associated with King Arthur.-Background:...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Cadbury Hill
  Cadbury Hill
  Cadbury Hill is a small hill, mostly in the civil parish of Congresbury, overlooking the village of Yatton in North Somerset. On its summit stands an Iron Age hill fort, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.-Background:...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Cannington Camp
  Cannington Camp
  Cannington Camp is a Bronze Age and Iron Age hill fort near Cannington, Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.The small hill rises to above low lying land about west of the tidal estuary of the River Parrett, near the ancient port and ford at Combwich...
  
  , Bronze and Iron Age hill fort
• Castell Dinas Bran
  Castell Dinas Bran
  Castell Dinas Brân is a medieval castle standing high on a hill above the town of Llangollen in Denbighshire, Wales. It is also the site of an Iron Age hill fort.-Early history:...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Castell Henllys
  Castell Henllys
  Castell Henllys is an important archaeological site in north Pembrokeshire, Wales, between Newport and Cardigan....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Castle an Dinas, St. Columb Major
  Castle an Dinas, St. Columb Major
  Castle an Dinas is an Iron Age hillfort near St. Columb Major in Cornwall, UK and is considered one of the most important hillforts in the southwest of Britain. It dates from around the 3rd to 2nd century BCE and consists of three ditch and rampart concentric rings, 850 feet above sea level....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Castle Hill, Huddersfield
  Castle Hill, Huddersfield
  Taken and adapted from Rumsby, J. 'A Castle Well Guarded: the archaeology and history of Castle Hill, Almondbury' Castle Hill is a Scheduled Ancient Monument situated on a hilltop overlooking Huddersfield, in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees. It has been settled for at least 4,000 years....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Clatworthy Camp
  Clatworthy Camp
  Clatworthy Camp is an Iron Age hill fort North West of Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Coney's Castle
  Coney's Castle
  Coney's Castle is an Iron Age hill fort in Dorset, England. The name Coney is from the Old English for rabbit , suggesting medieval use as a domestic warren, as at nearby Pilsdon Pen....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Cow Castle
  Cow Castle
  Cow Castle is an Iron Age hill fort West South West of Exford, Somerset, England within the Exmoor National Park. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Danebury
  Danebury
  Danebury is an Iron Age hill fort in Hampshire in England, about north-west of Winchester . The site, covering , was excavated by Barry Cunliffe in the 1970s...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Daw's Castle
  Daw's Castle
  Daw's Castle is a sea cliff hill fort just west of Watchet, a harbour town in Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.The name comes from Thomas Dawe, who owned castell field in 1537....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Devil's Dyke, Hertfordshire
  Devil's Dyke, Hertfordshire
  Devil's Dyke is the remains of a defensive ditch around an ancient settlement of the Catuvellauni tribe of Ancient Britain. It lies at the east side of the current village of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England...
  
  , Iron Age defensive ditch.
• Dinas Dinlle
  Dinas Dinlle
  Dinas Dinlle is a small settlement in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, with a large sand and pebble beach with vast areas of sand from mid-tide level. The foreshore consists of natural pebble banks. The popular beach offers views towards the Llŷn Peninsula and towards Ynys Llanddwyn on Anglesey...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Dolebury Warren
  Dolebury Warren
  Dolebury Warren is a 90.6 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Churchill in North Somerset, notified in 1952...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Dowsborough
  Dowsborough
  Dowsborough Camp is an Iron Age hill fort on the Quantock Hills near Nether Stowey in Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument .-Background:...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Dumbarton Castle
  Dumbarton Castle
  Dumbarton Castle has the longest recorded history of any stronghold in Great Britain. It overlooks the Scottish town of Dumbarton, and sits on a plug of volcanic basalt known as Dumbarton Rock which is high.-Iron Age:...
  
  , Iron Age strong hold.
• Dunadd
  Dunadd
  Dunadd, , is an Iron Age and later hillfort near Kilmartin in Argyll and Bute, Scotland and believed to be the capital of the ancient kingdom of Dál Riata.-Description:...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Dundon Hill
  Dundon Hill Hillfort
  Dundon Hill Hillfort is an Iron Age hillfort in Compton Dundon, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. South east of the site is a Bronze Age bowl barrow which was later modified as a Norman Motte, known as Dundon Beacon....
  
   (or Dundon Camp), Compton Dundon
  Compton Dundon
  Compton Dundon is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated beside King's Sedge Moor and the Polden Hills, south of Glastonbury and north of Somerton in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 710...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Durnovaria
  Durnovaria
  Durnovaria is the Latin form of the Brythonic name for the Roman town of Dorchester in the modern English county of Dorset.-Romans at Maiden Castle:...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Eildon Hill
  Eildon Hill
  Not to be confused with Eldon Hill, EnglandEildon Hill lies just south of Melrose, Scotland in the Scottish Borders, overlooking the town. The name is usually pluralised into "the Eildons" or "Eildon Hills", because of its triple peak....
  
  , Late Bronze Age hill fort.
• Eggardon Hill
  Eggardon Hill
  Eggardon Hill is located on chalk uplands approximately four miles to the east of Bridport, in the English county of Dorset. It stands 250 metres above sea level, and provides panoramic views to the south, north and west...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Ham Hill, Somerset, Bronze and Iron Age hill fort
• Hambledon Hill
  Hambledon Hill
  Hambledon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale five miles north of Blandford Forum. The hill is a Chalk outcrop, on the south western corner of Cranborne Chase, separated from the Dorset Downs by the River Stour....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort and remains of Neolithic causewayed enclosures.
• Hod Hill
  Hod Hill
  Hod Hill is a large hill fort in the Blackmore Vale, north-west of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. The fort sits on a chalk hill that is detached from the Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase. The hill fort at Hambledon Hill is just to the north.The fort is roughly rectangular , with an enclosed...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Kenwalch's Castle
  Kenwalch's Castle
  Kenwalch's Castle is probably an Iron Age hill fort that may have been converted into a Roman fortress in Penselwood, Somerset, England, East South East of Bruton at . It is situated in Castle Wood which covers its defences and interior. The latter has an area of . There is a single rampart and...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Kingsdown Camp
  Kingsdown Camp
  Kingsdown Camp is an Iron Age hill fort at Buckland Dinham South East of Radstock, Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.It is a univallate fort with an area of , and is approximately quadrilateral in shape. In the Iron Age or Roman period a drystone wall was constructed, possibly...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Lambert's Castle
  Lambert's Castle
  Lambert's Castle is an Iron Age hill fort in the county of Dorset in southwest England. Since 1981 it has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest on account of its geology, archaeology and ecology....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Maes Knoll
  Maes Knoll
  Maes Knoll is an Iron Age hillfort in Somerset, England, located at the eastern end of the Dundry Down ridge, south of the city of Bristol and north of the village of Norton Malreward near the eastern side of Dundry Hill...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Maesbury Castle
  Maesbury Castle
  Maesbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort within the parish of Croscombe on the Mendip Hills, just north of Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England. It has been listed as Scheduled Ancient Monument....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Maiden Castle, Dorset
  Maiden Castle, Dorset
  Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hill fort south west of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Norton Camp
  Norton Camp
  Norton Camp is a Bronze Age hill fort at Norton Fitzwarren near Taunton in Somerset, England.-Background:Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the first millennium BC. The reason for their emergence in Britain, and their purpose, has been a subject of...
  
  , Bronze Age hill fort
• Old Sarum
  Old Sarum
  Old Sarum is the site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury, in England. The site contains evidence of human habitation as early as 3000 BC. Old Sarum is mentioned in some of the earliest records in the country...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort and Neolithic settlement.
• Old Winchester Hill
  Old Winchester Hill
  Old Winchester Hill is a chalk hill in Hampshire, England surmounted by an Iron Age hill fort and a Bronze Age cemetery. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a National Nature Reserve. The hill fort has never been fully excavated.-Location:...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort and Bronze Age barrows.
• Oram's Arbour
  Oram's Arbour
  Oram's Arbour was a hill fort during the Iron Age, which eventually became Venta Belgarum, Britannia and then Winchester, Hampshire, England....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Pen Dinas
  Pen Dinas
  Pen Dinas is the name of a hill south of Aberystwyth on the coast of Ceredigion, Wales, upon which an extensive Iron Age hill fort is situated....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Pilsdon Pen
  Pilsdon Pen
  Pilsdon Pen is a 277 metre hill in West Dorset, England, situated five miles west of Beaminster at the north end of the Marshwood Vale. It is Dorset's second highest point and has panoramic views extending for many miles...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Plainsfield Camp
  Plainsfield Camp
  Plainsfield Camp is a possible Iron Age earthwork on the Quantock Hills near Aisholt in Somerset, England.The so-called hill fort has several features that make it more likely to be an animal enclosure, than a defended settlement:...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Poundbury Hill
  Poundbury Hill
  Poundbury Hill hill fort is the site of a Middle Bronze Age enclosure. It is roughly rectangular and it is likely that it was designed to command views over the River Frome and the Frome valley to the north. The main entrance to the fort is on the eastern end. It overlooks the county town of...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort and Middle Bronze Age settlement.
• Ruborough Camp
  Ruborough Camp
  Ruborough Camp is an Iron Age hill fort on the Quantock Hills near Broomfield in Somerset, England. The name comes from Rugan beorh or Ruwan-beorge meaning Rough Hill. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.-Background:...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Segsbury Camp
  Segsbury Camp
  Segsbury Camp or Segsbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort on the crest of the Berkshire Downs, near the Ridgeway above Wantage, in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. It is in Letcombe Regis civil parish and is also called Letcombe Castle.The fort has extensive ditch and...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Small Down Knoll
  Small Down Knoll
  Small Down Knoll, or Small Down Camp, is a Bronze Age hill fort near Evercreech in Somerset, England. The hill is on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, and rises to 222 m .Finds of flints indicate a prehistoric Mesolithic occupation....
  
  , Bronze Age hill fort
• Solsbury Hill
  Solsbury Hill
  Little Solsbury Hill is a small flat-topped hill and the site of an Iron Age hill fort. It is located above the village of Batheaston in Somerset, England. The hill rises to above the River Avon which is just over to the south. It is within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Stantonbury Camp
  Stantonbury Camp
  Stantonbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age hillfort near Stanton Prior within the parish of Marksbury in Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.-Background:...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications
  Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications
  Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications , a huge Iron Age hill fort comprising over of ditches and ramparts enclosing approximately 300 hectares of land, are situated in Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, England...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Sweetworthy
  Sweetworthy
  Sweetworthy is an Iron Age hill fort or enclosure at Luccombe, south of Porlock, Somerset, England. It is on the north-facing slope of Dunkery Hill. It has a single rampart and external ditch, enclosing . The rampart is still visible and the ditch on the east side is used as a trackway...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Traprain Law
  Traprain Law
  Traprain Law is a hill about 221m in elevation, located east of Haddington in East Lothian, Scotland. It is the site of an oppidum or hill fort, which covered at its maximum extent about 16 ha and must have been a veritable town...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Trendle Ring
  Trendle Ring
  Trendle Ring is an Iron Age earthwork on the Quantock Hills near Bicknoller in Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument .The word trendle means circle, so it is a tautological place name....
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Tre'r Ceiri, Iron Age hill fort.
• Uffington Castle
  Uffington Castle
  Uffington Castle is all that remains of an early Iron Age hill fort in Oxfordshire, England. It covers about 32,000 square metres and is surrounded by two earth banks separated by a ditch with an entrance in the eastern end...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• White Castle, East Lothian
  White Castle, East Lothian
  Whitecastle was originally a hillfort in East Lothian, Scotland, situated on the edge of the Lammermuir Hills, two miles south of the village of Garvald, . It later formed part of a landed estate which is known today as Nunraw...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Wincobank (hill fort)
  Wincobank (hill fort)
  Wincobank is an Iron Age hill fort in the district of Sheffield, England of the same name. The fort stands on the summit of a steep hill above the River Don, it is oval in shape and covers about 10,000 square metres , surrounded by a ditch that was originally 1.5–2 m deep and a bank...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.
• Worlebury Camp
  Worlebury Camp
  Worlebury Camp is the name of the place where an Iron Age hill fort once stood atop Worlebury Hill, which is north of the town of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. This fort was designed for defence, as is evidenced the number of walls and ditches around the site. Archaeologists have found...
  
  , Worlebury Hill
  Worlebury Hill
  Worlebury Hill is the name given to an upland area lying between the flatlands of Weston-super-Mare and the Kewstoke area of North Somerset, England. Worlebury Hill's rises from sea level to its highest point of , and the western end of the hill forms a peninsula, jutting out into the Bristol...
  
  , Iron Age hill fort.

Other defensive structures

• Broch of Mousa, broch.
• Dun Carloway
  Dun Carloway
  Dun Carloway is a broch situated in the district of Carloway, on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. It is a remarkably well preserved broch - on the east side parts of the old wall still reaches to 9 metres tall. In places there are also more modern repairs to the east wall...
  
  , broch
  Broch
  A broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure of a type found only in Scotland. Brochs include some of the most sophisticated examples of drystone architecture ever created, and belong to the classification "complex Atlantic Roundhouse" devised by Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s....
  
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• Edin's Hall Broch
  Edin's Hall Broch
  Edin's Hall Broch is a 2nd century broch near Duns in the Borders of Scotland. It is one of very few brochs found in southern Scotland. It is roughly 27m in diameter.-External links:...
  
  , broch.
• Eilean Domhnuill
  Eilean Domhnuill
  Armit identifies the islet of Eilean Dòmhnuill , Loch Olabhat on North Uist, Scotland as what may be the earliest crannog. Unstan ware pottery found there suggests a Neolithic period date of 3200-2800 BC...
  
  , crannog
  Crannog
  A crannog is typically a partially or entirely artificial island, usually built in lakes, rivers and estuarine waters of Scotland and Ireland. Crannogs were used as dwellings over five millennia from the European Neolithic Period, to as late as the 17th/early 18th century although in Scotland,...
  
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• Wansdyke (earthwork)
  Wansdyke (earthwork)
  Wansdyke is a series of early medieval defensive linear earthworks in the West Country of England, consisting of a ditch and a running embankment from the ditch spoil, with the ditching facing north. It runs at least from Maes Knoll in historic Somerset, a hillfort at the east end of Dundry Hill...
  
  

Henges

• Arbor Low
  Arbor Low
  Arbor Low is a Neolithic henge monument in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England. Arbor Low is located in the White Peak zone of the Peak District in Derbyshire . The White Peak is a Carboniferous Limestone plateau lying between approximately 200-400m OD...
  
  , late Neolithic Class II henge.
• Avebury
  Avebury
  Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles which is located around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, south west England. Unique amongst megalithic monuments, Avebury contains the largest stone circle in Europe, and is one of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain...
  
  , Neolithic henge and stone circles.
• Ballymeanoch
  Ballymeanoch
  Ballymeanoch is a complex of neolithic structures located in Kilmartin Glen, Scotland. It includes an avenue of two rows of standing stones with 4 and 2 stones each, a stone circle, and a henge with a small burial cairn...
  
  , Neolithic henge with a small burial cairn as well as standing stones and stone circles.
• The Bull Ring
  The Bull Ring
  The Bull Ring is a Class II henge that was built in the late Neolithic period near Dove Holes in Derbyshire, England.It has coordinates , and is National Monument number 23282...
  
  , Neolithic Class II henge.
• Drove Cottage Henge
  Drove Cottage Henge
  Drove Cottage Henge is a Scheduled Ancient Monument in the Priddy parish of Somerset, England. It is located north of Drove Cottage. The site is a ceremonial Neolithic location...
  
  , Heavily damaged neolithic henge
• Durrington Walls
  Durrington Walls
  Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. It is 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury...
  
  , Neolithic Class II henge.
• King Arthur's Round Table, Cumbria
  King Arthur's Round Table, Cumbria
  King Arthur's Round Table is a Neolithic henge in the village of Eamont Bridge within the English county of Cumbria, around 2 km south east of Penrith. The site is free to visitors and is under the control of English Heritage....
  
  , Neolithic Class II henge.
• Maumbury Rings
  Maumbury Rings
  Maumbury Rings is a Neolithic henge in the south of Dorchester town in Dorset, England. It is a large circular earthwork, 85 metres in diameter, with a single bank and internal ditch and an entrance to the north east. The ditch was created by digging a series of funnel-shaped shafts, each 10...
  
  , Neolithic henge later used as a Roman amphitheatre.
• Mayburgh Henge
  Mayburgh Henge
  Mayburgh Henge is a large prehistoric monument in the county of Cumbria in northern England. Mayburgh Henge is just outside the village of Eamont Bridge close to the confluence of the Rivers Eamont and Lowther around 1 mile south of Penrith, just a few hundred yards from the M6 motorway.Mayburgh...
  
  , Neolithic henge with standing stones.
• Priddy Circles
  Priddy Circles
  Priddy Circles are a linear arrangement of four circular earthwork enclosures near the village of Priddy on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. The circles have been listed as Scheduled Ancient Monuments, and described as 'probable Neolithic ritual or ceremonial monuments similar to a...
  
  , four Stone circles + two round barrows
• Ring of Brodgar
  Ring of Brodgar
  The Ring of Brodgar is a Neolithic henge and stone circle on the Mainland, the largest island in Orkney, Scotland...
  
  , Neolithic henge and stone circle.
• Thornborough Henges
  Thornborough Henges
  The Thornborough Henges is an unusual ancient monument complex that includes the three aligned henges that give the site its name. The complex is located near the village of Thornborough, close to the town of Masham in North Yorkshire, England. The complex includes many large ancient structures...
  
  , three aligned Neolithic henges.
• Woodhenge
  Woodhenge
  Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class I henge and timber circle monument located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury.-Discovery:...
  
  , Neolithic Class I henge and timber circle.

Hill figures

• Cerne Abbas giant
  Cerne Abbas giant
  The Cerne Abbas Giant, also referred to as the Rude Man or the Rude Giant, is a hill figure of a giant naked man on a hillside near the village of Cerne Abbas, to the north of Dorchester, in Dorset, England. The high, wide figure is carved into the side of a steep hill, and is best viewed from...
  
  , hill figure popularly believed to be ancient but recently dated to c. 17th century.
• Long Man of Wilmington
  Long Man of Wilmington
  The Long Man of Wilmington is a hill figure located in Wilmington, East Sussex, England on the steep slopes of Windover Hill, northwest of Eastbourne. The Long Man is tall and designed to look in proportion when viewed from below....
  
  , hill figure of uncertain age, but probably not prehistoric.
• Uffington White Horse
  Uffington White Horse
  The Uffington White Horse is a highly stylised prehistoric hill figure, 110 m long , formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk...
  
  , Bronze Age hill figure.

Settlement sites

• Carn Brea
  Carn Brea
  Carn Brea is a civil parish and hilltop site in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The hilltop site is situated approximately one mile southwest of Redruth.-Neolithic settlement:...
  
  
• Cheddar Gorge and its caves
• Chysauster Ancient Village
  Chysauster Ancient Village
  Chysauster Ancient Village is a late Iron Age and Romano-British village of courtyard houses in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which is currently in the care of English Heritage...
  
  
• Din Lligwy
  Din Lligwy
  Din Lligwy hut circle is an ancient village site near the east coast of Anglesey, close to the village of Moelfre, North Wales....
  
  
• Flag Fen
  Flag Fen
  Flag Fen near Peterborough, England is a Bronze Age site, probably religious. It comprises over 60,000 timbers arranged in five very long rows connecting Whittlesey Island with Peterborough across the wet fenland. Part way across the structure, a small island was formed which is where it is...
  
  
• Glastonbury Lake Village
  Glastonbury Lake Village
  Glastonbury Lake Village was an iron age village on the Somerset Levels near Godney, some north west of Glastonbury, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument and covers an area of north to south by east to west....
  
  
• Little Woodbury
  Little Woodbury
  Little Woodbury is the name of an important Iron Age archaeological site near Salisbury in the English county of Wiltshire.It was partially excavated between 1938 and 1939 by Gerhard Bersu, a German archaeologist who introduced the revolutionary approaches he had developed in continental Europe...
  
  
• The Sanctuary
  The Sanctuary
  The Sanctuary is a prehistoric site on Overton Hill located around 5 miles west of Marlborough in the English county of Wiltshire.It is part of a wider Neolithic landscape which includes the nearby sites of Silbury Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow and Avebury, to which The Sanctuary was linked by the...
  
  
• Skara Brae
  Skara Brae
  Skara Brae is a large stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It consists of ten clustered houses, and was occupied from roughly 3180 BCE–2500 BCE...
  
  

Stone monuments

• Achavanich
  Achavanich
  Achavanich is an unusual megalithic horseshoe-shaped structure. Meaning "field of the stones", 36 of the original 54 remain today, mostly on the western side of the structure. The arrangement of these stones is extremely rare as the slabs are pointing towards the centre of the circle, rather...
  
  
• Beckhampton Avenue
  Beckhampton Avenue
  The Beckhampton Avenue a curving prehistoric avenue of stones that ran broadly south west from Avebury towards The Longstones at Beckhampton in the English county of Wiltshire. It probably dates to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age....
  
  
• Bennachie
  Bennachie
  Bennachie is a range of hills in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It has several tops, the highest of which, Oxen Craig, has a height of 528 m...
  
  
• Birkrigg stone circle
  Birkrigg stone circle
  The Birkrigg stone circle, also known as the Druid's Temple is a Bronze Age stone circle two miles south of Ulverston in the English county of Cumbria. It dates to between 1700 and 1400 BC....
  
  
• Boscawen-Un
  Boscawen-Un
  Boscawen-Un is a Bronze age stone circle close to St Buryan in Cornwall, UK. It consists of 19 upright stones in an ellipse with diameters 24.9m and 21.9m, with another, leaning, stone just south of the centre. There is a west-facing gap in the circle, which may have formed an entrance. It is...
  
  
• Boskednan stone circle
  Boskednan stone circle
  Boskednan stone circle is a partially restored prehistoric stone circle near Boskednan, around 4 miles northeast of the town of Penzance in Cornwall, United Kingdom...
  
  
• The Bridestones
  The Bridestones
  The Bridestones consist of a chambered cairn, built in the Neolithic Stone Age, near Congleton, Cheshire, England. It was described in 1764 as being 100 metres long and 11 metres wide; it contained three separate compartments, of which only one remains today...
  
  
• Callanish
  Callanish
  Callanish is a village on the West Side of the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides , Scotland. A linear settlement with a jetty, it is situated on a headland jutting into Loch Roag, a sea loch...
  
  
• Castlerigg stone circle
  Castlerigg stone circle
  The stone circle at Castlerigg is situated near Keswick in Cumbria, North West England...
  
  
• Doll Tor
  Doll Tor
  Doll Tor, occasionally known as the Six Stones, is a small stone circle near Birchover, west of Stanton Moor in the Derbyshire Peak District. Dating from the Bronze Age, the circle consists of six standing stones....
  
  
• Drizzlecombe
  Drizzlecombe
  Drizzlecombe or Thrushelcombe is an area of Dartmoor in the county of Devon, England. It is located on the western side of the moor about east of the village of Yelverton, to the west of the upper reaches of the River Plym....
  
  
• Grey Wethers
  Grey Wethers
  Grey Wethers consists of a pair of prehistoric stone circles, situated on grassy plateau to the north of Postbridge, Dartmoor, in the United Kingdom....
  
  
• The Hurlers (stone circles)
  The Hurlers (stone circles)
  The Hurlers are a group of three stone circles in Cornwall, England, UK. The site is half-a-mile west of the village of Minions on the eastern flank of Bodmin Moor, and approximately four miles north of Liskeard at .-Location:The Hurlers are in the Caradon district north of Liskeard in the...
  
  
• Long Meg and Her Daughters
  Long Meg and Her Daughters
  Long Meg and Her Daughters, also known as Maughanby Circle, is a Bronze Age stone circle near Penrith in Cumbria, North West England. One of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted from 3,300 to 900 BCE, during...
  
  
• The Longstones
  The Longstones
  The Longstones or the Devil's Quoits are two standing stones one of which is the remains of what was once a prehistoric 'cove' of standing stones close to Beckhampton in the English county of Wiltshire....
  
  
• Mên-an-Tol
  Mên-an-Tol
  The Mên-an-Tol is a small formation of standing stones near the Madron-Morvah road in Cornwall, United Kingdom . It is about 3 miles north west of Madron...
  
  
• The Merry Maidens
  The Merry Maidens
  The Merry Maidens , also known as Dawn's Men is a late neolithic stone circle located 2 miles to the south of the village of St Buryan, in Cornwall, United Kingdom....
  
  
• Merrivale, Devon
  Merrivale, Devon
  Merrivale is a locality in western Dartmoor, in the West Devon district of Devon, England. It is best known for the nearby series of Bronze Age megalithic monuments to the south and a former granite quarry.-Merrivale hamlet:...
  
  
• Mitchell's Fold
  Mitchell's Fold
  Mitchell's Fold is a Bronze Age stone circle in South-West Shropshire, located in the village of White Grit on dry heathland at the south-west end of Stapeley Hill in the civil parish of Chirbury with Brompton, at a height of 1083 ft o.d.It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument in the...
  
  
• Nine Ladies
  Nine Ladies
  Nine Ladies is a Bronze Age stone circle located on Stanton Moor, Derbyshire, England. Part of the Peak District National Park, the site is owned by English Heritage and is often visited by tourists and hill walkers...
  
  
• Rollright Stones
  Rollright Stones
  The Rollright Stones are a complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments located near to the village of Long Compton on the borders of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire in England...
  
  
• Rudston
  Rudston
  Rudston is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated between Driffield and Bridlington approximately to the west of Bridlington, and lies on the B1253 road....
  
  
• Stalldown Barrow
  Stalldown Barrow
  Stalldown Barrow, sometimes called Staldon, is a megalithic site in Devon, about 5km from Harford. It consists of a long stone row. It is fairly close to the stone circle on Stall Moor....
  
  
• Standing Stones of Stenness
• Stanton Drew
  Stanton Drew
  Stanton Drew is a small village and civil parish within the Chew Valley in Somerset, England, situated north of the Mendip Hills, south of Bristol in the Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority....
  
  
• Stones of Scotland
• Swinside
  Swinside
  Swinside, which is also known as Sunkenkirk and Swineshead, is a stone circle lying beside Swinside Fell, part of Black Combe in southern Cumbria, North West England...
  
  
• Temple Wood
  Temple Wood
  Temple Wood is an ancient site located in Kilmartin Glen, Scotland. The site includes two circles . The southern circle contains a ring of 13 standing stones about 12 metres in diameter. In the past it may have had 22 stones. In the centre is a burial cist surrounded by a circle of stones...
  
  
• Torhouse
  Torhouse
  The Standing Stones of Torhouse are a circle of nineteen granite boulders on the land of Torhouse, three miles west of Wigtown, Scotland.They are set on their ends with three larger stones placed in a line in the middle. This is the only stone circle of its type in the Machars area and is of a...
  
  
• Tregeseal East stone circle
  Tregeseal East stone circle
  Tregeseal East is a heavily restored prehistoric stone circle around one mile northeast of the town of St Just in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The nineteen granite stones are also known as The Dancing Stones...
  
  
• Yellowmead Down
  Yellowmead Down
  Yellowmead Down near Sheepstor in Devon, England, is a Bronze Age concentric stone circle consisting of four rings of stones set within one another. The largest is 20m wide and the smallest, 6m....
  
  

Structures of unknown purpose

• Grim's Ditch
  Grim's Ditch
  Grim's Ditch, Grim's Dyke or Grim's Bank is a name shared by a number of prehistoric bank and ditch earthworks...
  
  , Bank and ditch earthworks.
• Seahenge
  Seahenge
  Seahenge, which is also known as Holme I, was a prehistoric monument located in the village of Holme-next-the-Sea, near Old Hunstanton in the English county of Norfolk...
  
  , Bronze Age timber monument.
• Silbury Hill
  Silbury Hill
  Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site, and lies at ....
  
  , the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe.
• The Gop
  The Gop
  The Gop is a neolithic mound lying north of Trelawnyd in Flintshire, Wales. Oval in form, it is the second-largest such mound in Britain after Silbury Hill. Excavations have uncovered no burial chambers or other underground works. This may indicate that it was used as a look-out or hill fort;...
  
  , Neolithic mound in Wales.
• Stonehenge
  Stonehenge
  Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks...
  
  , large area of stone circles

External links

• Winter Solstice and Long Barrows has a listing of Long Barrow Coordinates via file links.
• Prehistoric Burial Sites in Wales