Megaliths Great-Britain

On the British Isles about 900 stone circles, many standing stones, tombs and grave-mounds remain...

(* Monuments marked with * are documented in the Dutch part: "Megasites")

Remarkable megaliths in Great-Britain:

Cornwall:

• Carn Brea, Neolithic village +- 3700 B.C. to +-3300 B.C.
• Lanyon Quoit, beautiful dolmen northwest of Madron.
• Men Antol, northwest of Lanyon Quoit
• The Hurlers, egg-shaped cromlech, 6 km north of Liskeard, Bodmin Moor.
• Trethevy Quoit, dolmen, +- 3 km north from Liskeard.
• ...

Devon:

• Lower Piles, stone circle.
• Merrivale, stone circle and stone rows.

Avon:

• Stanton Drew*, big stone circle diameter 112m (+- 5 km under Bristol).
  

Stanton Drew

Wiltshire:

• Avebury*, biggest stone circle in England.
• West Kennet* 'long mound' with chamber, near Avebury.
• Stonehenge*

Kent:

• Kit's Coty, dolmen, Aylesford near Maidstone.

Norfolk:

• Grimes Graves, flint mine +- 2600 B.C.

Yorkshire:

• Devil's Arrows*, three high standing stones near Boroughbridge.
• Menhir te Rudston*, highest standing stone in G.B. (+- 8m).

Cumbria:

• Burnmoor, stone circles.
• Castle Rigg*, stone circle 41 stones, near Keswick.
• Long Meg* (en her Daughters, biggest stone circle in North-England.

Remarkable megaliths in Wales:

• Bryn Celly Ddu*, chambered tomb, about 4 km ten southwest of Menai Bridge.
• Carreg Sampson, dolmen near Abercastle.
• Kerry Pole, stone circle near Newtown.
• Moel ty Uchaf, stone circle near Welshpool.
• Pentre Ifan, dolmen, southeast of Newport.

Bryn Celli Ddu, Wales

Remarkable megaliths in Scotland:

Dumfries & Galloway:

• Cardoness House, egg-shaped cromlech, near Kirkcudbright.
• Twelve Apostles*, stone circle.

Argyl & Bute:

• Ballinaby*, standing stones.
• Temple Wood*, standing stones and tombs.

Highland:

• Camster*, passage tombs, northwest of Mid Clyth
• Clava*, stone circles and passage tombs.
• Mid Clyth*: Hill o’Many stanes, +-200 stones in 22 rows.

Western Isles:

• Calanish stone circles, alignment and passage tomb.
• ...

Orkney-Isles:

• Maes Howe*: chambered tomb.
• Ring of Brodgar*, Stenness, stone circle diameter +-52m, 58 stones, +- 3000 B.C.
• Skara Brea*, Neolithic settlement.
• Stones of Stenness*, stone circle.
• ...

(* Monuments marked with * are documented in the Dutch part: "Megasites")

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