Archaeological Sites in England

Abbotsbury Castle

Abbotsbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in south west Dorset, England, situated on Wears Hill above the village of Abbotsbury, seven miles west of Dorchester and the famous hill…

Aconbury Camp

Aconbury Camp is an Iron Age hillfort on Aconbury Hill in Herefordshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) south of Hereford, and near the village of Aconbury. At the south-east and…

Aesica

Aesica (modern name Great Chesters) was a Roman fort, 1.5 miles north of the small town of Haltwhistle in Northumberland. It was the ninth fort on Hadrian's Wall, between…

Alauna, Maryport

Alauna was a castrum or fort in the Roman province of Britannia. It occupied a coastal site just north of the town of Maryport in the English county of Cumbria (formerly part of…

Alavana

Alavana was a name tentatively (and probably wrongly) applied to the ruins of a Roman fort at Watercrook about 2 mi south of Kendal in Cumbria, for which the Roman name Medibogdo…

Alfred's Castle

Alfred's Castle is a small Iron Age hill fort behind Ashdown Park in the civil parish of Ashbury in Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire). It lies 2–3 km south of the Ridgeway and is…

Ambleside Roman Fort

Ambleside Roman Fort is the modern name given to the remains of a fort of the Roman province of Britannia. Dating to the 1st or 2nd century AD, its ruins are located on the…

Ambresbury Banks

Ambresbury Banks is the name given to the remains of an Iron Age hill fort in Epping Forest, Essex. It lies in 'Long Running & Ambresbury Banks', south of Bell Common and north of…

Arbeia

The name Arbeia comes from the Notitia Dignitatum, the only ancient source to feature the name. The name entered widespread use as the probable name for the South Shields fort in…

Arbury Banks, Hertfordshire

Arbury Banks is a hill fort southwest of Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England. It was probably first constructed during the late Bronze Age, 1000-700 BC. Standing at 90 m above sea…

Ardotalia

Ardotalia, also known as Melandra or Melandra Castle, is a Roman fort in Gamesley, near Glossop in Derbyshire. Ardotalia was constructed by Cohors Primae Frisiavonum—The First…

Backwell Hillfort

Backwell Hillfort is an Iron Age hill fort situated approximately 1.1 miles from Backwell in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. The hill fort was first discovered…

Badbury Rings

Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument in east Dorset. It was in the territory of the Durotriges. In the Roman era a temple was located immediately west of…

Balksbury

Balksbury is a Bronze Age hill fort site southwest of Andover, Hampshire. Originally triangular, most was destroyed by the A303 Andover Bypass and housing development. Only the…

Banbury Hill

Banbury Hillfort, or Banbury Hill Camp, is an Iron Age hillfort, about 1.25 miles south of Sturminster Newton and 1 mile north-west of the village of Okeford Fitzpaine in Dorset.…

Banna, Birdoswald

A Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall in Cumbria, spanning 2.14 hectares, making it one of the larger forts on the Wall. Named Banna ("horn" in Celtic) for its triangular spur above the…

Banwell Camp

Banwell Camp is a univallate Iron Age hill fort in the North Somerset district of Somerset. The hill fort is situated approximately 1.6 miles east from the Village of Banwell. In…

Barbury Castle

Barbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in Wiltshire, England. Located about 5.5 miles south of Swindon on Barbury Hill, it sits along the ancient Ridgeway route—a prehistoric…

Bathampton Down

Bathampton Down is a flat limestone plateau near Bathampton, Somerset, England, overlooking the River Avon and the city of Bath. There is evidence of human activity at the site…

Bat's Castle

Bat's Castle is an Iron Age hillfort on the 213-metre (699 ft) summit of Gallox Hill in the parish of Carhampton in Somerset, England. Previously known as Caesar's Camp and…

Battlesbury Camp

Battlesbury Camp is an Iron Age bivallate hillfort occupying the summit of Battlesbury Hill near Warminster in Wiltshire, England. The site encompasses approximately 10 hectares…

Beacon Castle

Beacon Castle is an Iron Age hillslope enclosure near Parracombe in Devon, England, situated at approximately 290 metres above sea level overlooking the Heddon Valley. The site is…

Beacon Hill, West Sussex

Beacon Hill, also known as Harting Beacon, is a hillfort on the South Downs, in the county of West Sussex in southern England. The hilltop enclosure is dated to the Late Bronze…

Belsar's Hill

Belsar's Hill is a hillfort near Willingham, Cambridgeshire. Belsar's Hill is an oval-shaped area, 265–220 metres, enclosing 6 acres. At the time of its construction, it would…

Berry Camp

Berry Camp is a rectangular promontory hillfort located on a plateau, close to the cliff edge at Langham Field on Littlecombe Hill at Berry Cliff, Branscombe, Devon. It is part of…

Berry Castle, Somerset

Berry Castle (sometimes known as Berry Camp) is an early Roman (possible Iron Age) hillslope enclosure in the county of Somerset, England. The hill fort is situated approximately…

Berry Mound

Berry Mound is an Iron Age hill fort in the Bromsgrove district of Worcestershire, near Shirley, West Midlands, on the outskirts of Birmingham. It has been dated to the 1st or 2nd…

Berry Ring

Berry Ring (also known as Bury Ring) is an Iron Age hillfort in Staffordshire, England, lying some two miles southwest of the county town of Stafford. The defences, following the…

Berry's Wood

Berry's Wood is an Iron Age hill fort situated close to Newton Abbot in Devon. The fort is situated at about 75 metres above sea level on a commanding promontory above the River…

Berth Hill

Berth Hill is an Iron Age hillfort in Staffordshire, England, about 5 miles south-west of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and near the village of Maer. The fort is on a sandstone outcrop at…

Bevisbury

Bevisbury is the site of a former Iron Age plateau fort in Hampshire, England. The fort lies on a chalk ridge and is of a single bank and ditch construction, enclosing an area of…

Bewcastle Roman Fort

Bewcastle Roman Fort was built to the north of Hadrian's Wall as an outpost fort possibly intended for scouting and intelligence. The remains of the fort are situated at the…

Bigbury Camp

Bigbury Camp (formerly Bigberry Camp) is a univallate hill fort in the parish of Harbledown and Rough Common in Kent in England. Bigbury Camp is the only confirmed Iron Age hill…

Bincknoll Castle

Bincknoll Castle, or Bincknoll Camp, is the site of a possible Iron Age univallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England. The site lies on the end of a triangular promontory on the…

Birdoswald Roman Fort

Birdoswald Roman Fort, known as Banna in antiquity, sits on a triangular spur above the River Irthing in Cumbria, towards the western end of Hadrian's Wall. Construction began in…

Black Ball Camp

Black Ball Camp is an Iron Age hillfort South West of Dunster, Somerset, England on the northern summit of Gallox Hill. It is a Scheduled Monument. It is also known as British…

Blackbury Camp

An Iron Age hillfort near Southleigh in Devon. The oval enclosure measures roughly 200 m by 100 m, defended by a rampart about 3 m high and 10 m wide with an outer ditch up to 12…

Blacker's Hill

Blacker's Hill is an Iron Age hill fort at Chilcompton, 4.5 kilometres south west of Radstock, Somerset. The hill fort is roughly rectangular and is a promentary type. In some…

Black Head, Cornwall

Black Head is a headland at the western end of St Austell Bay, Cornwall, England, owned by the National Trust. It features an Iron Age promontory fort with two massive parallel…

Blewburton Hill

(5th c. BC) Blewburton Hill is the site of an Iron Age hillfort in Oxfordshire, England. It was a univallate hillfort (single rampart) surrounded by farmland with small wooded…

Bradley Hill Fort

Bradley hill fort is an Iron Age hill fort. Bradley lies on the central ridge that runs north–south through the county, as do all of the hill forts in Cheshire. Bradley hill fort…

Brandon Camp

Brandon Camp is an archaeological site, about 1 mile south of Leintwardine, in Herefordshire. The visible defences consist of a single bank forming a roughly triangular enclosure…

Branodunum

Branodunum was an ancient Roman fort to the east of the modern English village of Brancaster in Norfolk. The fort, built in the 230s, became later part of the eleven forts along…

Bratton Castle

Bratton Castle (also known as Bratton Camp) is a bivallate (two ramparts) Iron Age built hill fort on Bratton Down, at the western edge of the Salisbury Plain escarpment. The hill…

Brent Hill

Brent Hill is an Iron Age hillfort near South Brent on Dartmoor, Devon, occupying a prominent summit at approximately 311 m above sea level. The fort survives as an irregularly…

Brent Knoll Camp

Brent Knoll Camp is an Iron Age hillfort at Brent Knoll, 3 kilometres from Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. It has been designated as a Scheduled Monument. Before the Somerset Levels…

British Camp

British Camp is an Iron Age hill fort located at the top of Herefordshire Beacon in the Malvern Hills. The fort is thought to have been first constructed in the 2nd century BC.…

Brocavum

Brocavum is the Latin name of a Roman fort at Brougham near Penrith, Cumbria. The fort survives as earthworks, but no excavation of these has been carried out so far. With the…

Buckland Rings

Buckland Rings is the site of an Iron Age hill fort in the town of Lymington, Hampshire. The entrance, which lies on the east side, was also excavated revealing a long entrance…

Buckton Roman Fort

Buckton Roman Fort is an archaeological site at Buckton, about 1 mile south-west of Leintwardine. The fort at Buckton is just above the floodplain of the River Teme. The remains,…

Bullsdown Camp

Bullsdown Camp is the site of a former Iron Age plateau fort in the county of Hampshire. The site is heavily wooded, and close inspection is required to observe the three bank and…

Burgh Castle - Roman Fortification

Burgh Castle, possibly the Roman fort of Gariannonum, is one of nine Saxon Shore forts built in the late 3rd century AD (c. 260-280) to defend against seaborne raiders along…

Burgh Walls Camp

Burgh Walls Camp is a multivallate Iron Age hill fort in the North Somerset district of Somerset. The hill fort is situated within Leigh Woods approximately 1.6 miles (2.6 km)…

Burledge Hill

Burledge Hill is the site of a univallate Iron Age hillfort on the southern edge of Bishop Sutton, Somerset, England. Excavated in 1955 by the University of Bristol Spelaeological…

Burrington Camp

Burrington Camp, also known as Burrington Ham, is an Iron Age hill fort in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. The hill fort is situated in the Mendip Hills…

Burrough Hill

Burrough Hill is an Iron Age hillfort in Burrough on the Hill, 11 km (7 mi) south of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England. Situated on a promontory about 210 metres (690 ft)…

Burscough Roman Fort

Burscough Roman Fort was a c.1st century AD auxiliary fort near what is now Burscough, West Lancashire. The site of the fort has an area of 30,000m² and was built in at least two…

Bury Bank

Bury Bank is an Iron Age multivallate hillfort in Staffordshire, about 2.4 km northwest of Stone near the village of Meaford. The defences follow the contours of a small hill,…

Bury Camp

Bury Camp is the site of an Iron Age multivallate hillfort in north-west Wiltshire, England. It occupies a triangular promontory of Colerne Down, in the north of Colerne parish,…

Bury Castle, Selworthy

Bury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort near Selworthy, Somerset, England. Bury Castle was built on a spur of land overlooking the surrounding terrain. The Bury Castle hillfort covers…

Bury Ditches

Bury Ditches is a British Iron Age hill fort between Clun and Bishop's Castle in the Shropshire Hills of central England. Storms in the 1970s and 1980s led to the removal of…

Bury Hill

Bury Hill is an Iron Age hillfort in Hampshire, England, located 2.4 km (1.5 mi) southwest of Andover. The 8.9-hectare (22-acre) enclosure shows two construction phases: an…

Bury Walls

Bury Walls is an Iron Age hillfort about 1 mile south-east of Weston-under-Redcastle, in Shropshire. The fort is on a promontory facing south-west, part of the southern escarpment…

Bussock Camp

Bussock Camp is the site of an Iron Age bivallate hillfort located in Berkshire. The entrance is to the north of the site and is believed to be original, and the site encloses…

Buzbury Rings

Buzbury Rings is an Iron Age hillfort about 2 miles east of Blandford Forum and 1 mile northwest of the village of Tarrant Keyneston, in Dorset. The site is on a hill on Keynston…

Cadbury Camp

Cadbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort in Somerset, England, near the village of Tickenham. It is a scheduled monument. Although primarily known as a fort during the Iron Age it is…

Cadbury Castle, Devon

Cadbury Castle is an Iron Age Hillfort close to Bickleigh, Devon, England. It was later encamped by the Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War under Thomas Fairfax…

Cadbury Castle, Somerset

Cadbury Castle is a Bronze and Iron Age hillfort in the parish of South Cadbury in the English county of Somerset. The hillfort is formed by a 7.28 hectares plateau surrounded by…

Cadson Bury

Cadson Bury is an Iron Age hillfort about 2 miles (3.2 km) south-west of Callington, in Cornwall, England. The fort is sited in a commanding position on a steep hill, called…

Caer Caradoc - Chapel Lawn

Iron Age hillfort and Scheduled Monument near Clun in south-west Shropshire, overlooking Chapel Lawn within a loop of the River Redlake. Like its namesake near Church Stretton, it…

Caesar's Camp, Bracknell Forest

Caesar's Camp is an Iron Age hill fort around 2,400 years old. It is located just in Crowthorne civil parish to the south of Bracknell in the English county of Berkshire. The hill…

Caesar's Camp, Rushmoor and Waverley

Caesar's Camp is an Iron Age hill fort straddling the border of the counties of Surrey and Hampshire in southern England. Caesar's Camp is a scheduled monument with a list entry…

Caister Roman Site

Caister Roman Site is a Roman Saxon Shore fort, located in Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk. It was constructed around AD 200 for use by units of the Roman army and navy, and was occupied…

Camboglanna

Camboglanna was a Roman fort. It was the twelfth fort on Hadrian's Wall counting from the east, between Banna almost 7 miles to the east and Uxelodunum, 9 miles to the west. It…

Cannington Camp

Cannington Camp is a univallate hillfort on an isolated 80-metre hilltop near Cannington, Somerset, England. Originally protected by a stone wall with the main entrance to the…

Capler Camp

Castercliff

Castercliff is an Iron Age multivallate hillfort situated close to the towns of Nelson and Colne in Lancashire, Northern England. On the upper part of the hill, triple rubble…

Casterley Camp

Casterley Camp is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England, about 1+1⁄2 miles south-west of the village of Upavon. The site comprises a large Iron…

Castle an Dinas, St Columb Major

Castle an Dinas is an Iron Age hillfort at the summit of Castle Downs near St Columb Major in Cornwall. It dates from around the 3rd to 2nd century BCE and consists of three ditch…

Castle Ditches

Castle Ditches is the site of an Iron Age trivallate hillfort in the south-east of Tisbury parish in Wiltshire. It is probable that its ancient name was Spelsbury; it was referred…

Castle Dore

Castle Dore — or Castle Dôr — is an Iron Age hill fort near Golant in Cornwall. It was probably occupied from the 5th or 4th centuries BC until the 1st century BC. The perimeter…

Castle Dyke

Castle Dyke is an Iron Age hill fort situated between Chudleigh and Dawlish in Devon, England. The fort occupies a hilltop position at approximately 140 metres (460 ft) above sea…

Castle Head, Devon

Castle Head is an Iron Age hill fort dating to between 1500–500 BC, occupying a commanding promontory position at the neck of a bend in the River Tamar on the Devon side near…

Castle Hill, Hampshire

Castle Hill is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in the civil parish of Burley in the New Forest national park in Hampshire. Parts of the interior are marshy and…

Castle Knowe, Northumberland

Castle Knowe, also known as Clinch Castle, is the site of an Iron Age hillfort in Northumberland, England, about 1 mile south-east of the village of Ingram. It is a scheduled…

Castle Old Fort

Castle Old Fort is a small Iron Age hill fort in Stonnall, in the Metropolitan borough of Walsall, West Midlands. The structure is a promontory fort in that it is situated on the…

Castle Ring

Castle Ring is an Iron Age hill fort, situated high up on the southern edge of Cannock Chase, Staffordshire. It is the highest point on The Chase with an elevation of 242 metres.…

Castle Rings, Wiltshire

Castle Rings is a univallate hill fort in the parish of Donhead St Mary in Wiltshire. Castle Rings has been dated to the Iron Age and is at an altitude of 228 metres upon Upper…

Castles Camp

Castles Camp is a univallate Iron Age hillfort in the Taunton Deane district of Somerset, situated approximately 1.6 km west of the village of Bathealton. The fort is defined by a…

Castlesteads, Greater Manchester

Castlesteads is a late Iron Age promontory fort on the east bank of the River Irwell in Bury, Greater Manchester. Occupied from the 5th century BC into the Roman period, the fort…

Caus Castle

Caus Castle is a ruin of a hill fort and medieval castle in Westbury, Shropshire, England. It sits on the eastern foothills of the Long Mountain, guarding the route from…

Chalbury Hillfort

Chalbury Hillfort is an Iron Age hillfort roughly 1 mile south-east of the village of Bincombe, in Dorset. The site is in a strategic position, 380 feet above sea level; Weymouth…

Chanctonbury Ring

Chanctonbury Ring is a prehistoric hill fort atop Chanctonbury Hill on the South Downs, on the border of the civil parishes of Washington and Wiston in the English county of West…

Charterhouse Camp

Charterhouse Camp is a univallate Iron Age hillfort in the Mendip district of Somerset. The hillfort is situated approximately 0.6 miles east from the village of Charterhouse.…

Chew Green

Chew Green is the site of the ancient Roman encampment, commonly but erroneously called Ad Fines on the 1885-1900 edition of the Ordnance Survey map, in Northumberland, England, 8…

Chilworth Ring

Chilworth Ring is the site of a small univallate Iron Age hillfort located in Hampshire. Partial excavations of the site were carried out in 1928. The site lies in the village of…

Chiselbury

Chiselbury is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England. The hillfort is sub-circular in plan, and encloses an area of approximately 10.5 acres. It is…

Chisenbury Camp

Chisenbury Camp is an Iron Age univallate hillfort in Broad Chalke parish, Wiltshire, England. The site comprises a small circular 5-acre enclosure that was levelled in 1931. The…

Cholesbury Camp

Cholesbury Camp is a large and well-preserved Iron Age hill fort on the northern edge of the village of Cholesbury in Buckinghamshire. It is roughly oval-shaped and covers an…

Chûn Castle

Chûn Castle is a large Iron Age hillfort near Penzance in Cornwall, England. The fort was built about 2,500 years ago, and fell into disuse until the early centuries AD when it…

Cilurnum

Cilurnum or Cilurvum was an ancient Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall at Chesters near the village of Walwick. Cilurnum is included in the Notitia Dignitatum of the late 4th/early 5th…

Clatworthy Camp

Clatworthy Camp is an Iron Age hill fort located 3 miles (4.8 km) north west of Wiveliscombe in Somerset, England. The site has been scheduled as an Ancient Monument and added to…

Clearbury Ring

Clearbury Ring is a univallate Iron Age hillfort which is partly in the parish of Downton in the county of Wiltshire in south-west England, approximately 5 kilometres due south of…

Cleeve Toot

Cleeve Toot is an Iron Age univallate hillfort above Goblin Combe, Cleeve, Somerset. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. It is a roughly oval settlement which is approximately 125…

Clovelly Dykes

Clovelly Dykes is an Iron Age hill fort or earthwork near Clovelly, Devon, England. Situated on the high plateau behind the coast at approx 210 metres above sea level, it is one…

Coggabata

Coggabata, or Congavata / Concavata, was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall, between Aballava to the east and Mais to the west. It was built on a hill commanding views over the…

Concangis

Concangis was an auxiliary castra in the Roman province of Lower Britain (Britannia Inferior). Its ruins are located in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, in England, and are now…

Condercum

Condercum was a Roman fort on the site of the modern-day Condercum Estate in Benwell, a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was the third fort on Hadrian's Wall, about 6.8…

Coney's Castle

Coney's Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, England. The name Coney is from the Old English for rabbit (Latin cuniculus), suggesting medieval use as a domestic warren, as at…

Conygar Hillfort

Conygar Hillfort is a small multivallate Iron Age hill fort in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The hill fort is situated…

Coria, Corbridge

Coria was a Roman fort and town 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Hadrian's Wall in the province of Britannia. It stood at the junction where a major north-south Roman road crossed the…

Cotley Castle

Cotley Castle is a large Iron Age univallate hillfort near Dunchideock in Devon, southwest of Exeter, occupying a triangular hilltop at 220 m above sea level on the Haldon Hills…

Cow Castle

Cow Castle is an Iron Age hillfort 5.75 kilometres (4 mi) West South West of Exford, Somerset, England within the Exmoor National Park. It is a Scheduled Monument. It has been…

Coxall Knoll

Coxall Knoll is a hill lying on the boundary of Shropshire and Herefordshire, England; it is near Bucknell in Shropshire and Buckton and Coxall in Herefordshire. On the summit is…

Cranbrook Castle

Cranbrook Castle is an Iron Age Hill fort occupying a commanding hilltop just to the south of and overlooking the Teign valley in Devon. It is 337 metres above sea level and 2…

Creech Hill

Creech Hill in southeast Somerset features a univallate Iron Age hillfort at its northern end near Milton Clevedon, designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Lamyatt Beacon, the…

Croft Ambrey

Croft Ambrey is an Iron Age hillfort on Yatton Hill in Herefordshire, England, overlooking the valleys north of Leominster. Excavated between 1960 and 1966, the triangular fort…

Cunnilear Camp

Cunnilear Camp is a slight univallate Iron Age hillfort near the village of Loxhore in Devon, England, situated on a promontory above the River Yeo at approximately 110 metres…

Curdon Camp

Curdon Camp is an Iron Age enclosure approximately 1.3 km northwest of Stogumber in Somerset, England, designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The site may have functioned as…

Danebury

Danebury (formerly ‘Dunnebury Hill’) is an Iron Age hillfort in Hampshire, England, about 19 kilometres (12 mi) north-west of Winchester. The site, covering 5 hectares (12 acres),…

Denbury Hill

Denbury Hill (also known as Denbury Camp and Denbury Down) is the name of an Iron Age hill fort near the village of Denbury in Devon, England. The fort is less than a kilometre…

Desborough Castle

Desborough Castle consists of a Norman ringwork, partly overlying a mound, possibly a barrow reused as a Saxon moot. Both lie within a square enclosure, possibly an Iron Age or…

Dinedor Camp

Dinedor Camp is an Iron Age hillfort, about 1 kilometre west of the village of Dinedor and about 3 kilometres south of Hereford in England. The fort is on a spur of Dinedor Hill;…

Dinghurst Fort

Dinghurst fort is an Iron Age univallate hillfort south of Churchill in Somerset. A scarp encircles the camp, 2.0 metres high in the east and 3.0 metres high in the west. The fort…

Dinies Camp

Dinies Camp is a univallate Iron Age hill fort enclosure in the Mendip district of Somerset, situated approximately 1.6 km southwest of the village of Downhead. The site is…

Dolbury

Dolbury is another local name for the Iron Age hill fort or enclosure at Killerton Park in Devon, England. The hill fort is situated on a hilltop some 128 metres above sea level;…

Dolebury Warren

Dolebury Warren is a 90.6-hectare (224-acre) hill fort and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in North Somerset, South West England. It is owned by the National…

Dowsborough Camp

Dowsborough Camp is an Iron Age hill fort on the Quantock Hills near Nether Stowey in Somerset. It has been designated as a Scheduled Monument. The site is at a height of 1115'…

Drakelow Hillfort

A small multivallate Iron Age hillfort on a promontory at the southern end of Kinver Edge, in Wolverley and Cookley parish, Worcestershire. The hillfort is a Scheduled Monument.

Dumpdon Hill

Dumpdon Hill is an Iron Age hillfort near Honiton in Devon. However, limited excavations found no signs of interior occupation, suggesting the hillfort may have been neither…

Dundon Hill Hillfort

Dundon Hill Hillfort is an Iron Age hillfort in Compton Dundon, Somerset. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Flint flakes, Bronze Age pottery, and Iron Age…

Dungeon Hill

Dungeon Hill is an Iron Age hillfort, about 1+1⁄4 miles north of the village of Buckland Newton in Dorset. The fort is on a low hill, height 600 feet; it has a single bank in a…

Dunwood Camp

Dunwood Camp is the site of an Iron Age hillfort located in Hampshire. It occupies the summit of a sandy hill. It has a single Rampart but no definite indication of a ditch and it…

East Myne

East Myne is a univallate Iron Age hill fort enclosure in Somerset, England, situated about 1.1 miles (1.8 km) west of Minehead. The single earthwork rampart (univallate) encloses…

Eddisbury Hill Fort

Eddisbury Hill Fort, also known as Castle Ditch, is an Iron Age hill fort near Delamere, Cheshire, northern England. Medieval and post-medieval quarrying and farming damaged the…

Elborough Hill

Elborough Hill is an Iron Age hill fort located in North Somerset, England, 1.9 km east of Hutton village and 1.6 km south of Elborough village. The oval-shaped fortification…

Elworthy Barrows

Elworthy Barrows is an unfinished Iron Age hill fort, rather than Bronze Age barrows, which is designated a scheduled ancient monument (No:188401). It is located in the civil…

Flower's Barrow

Flower's Barrow is an Iron Age hillfort, built over 2,500 years ago on Rings Hill, above Worbarrow Bay in Dorset on the south coast of England. It is located about 11 miles (18…

Fortifications of London

The fortifications of London are extensive and mostly well maintained, though many of the City of London's fortifications and defences were dismantled in the 17th and 18th…

Fosbury Camp

Fosbury Camp, is the site of an Iron Age bivallate hillfort located in Wiltshire. The site is oval in shape, and approximately 26 acres in area. The fort sits atop Knolls Down and…

Giant's Castle, Isles of Scilly

The Giant's Castle is a promontory fort of the Iron Age, on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. It is a scheduled monument. The fort is situated in the south-east of St Mary's. The rocky…

Glannoventa

Glannoventa is a Roman fort and naval base at Ravenglass in Cumbria. The fort appears in Roman records under various names: Clanoventa (2nd-century Antonine Itinerary),…

Glevum

Glevum was originally a Roman fort in Roman Britain that became a "colonia" of retired legionaries in AD 97. Today, it is known as Gloucester, in the English county of…

Grabbist Hillfort

Grabbist Hillfort is an Iron Age oval hillfort or defended enclosure, west of Dunster in Somerset. The site is 885.8 feet (270.0 m) long and 219.8 feet (67.0 m) wide, and is…

Greenway Camp

Greenway Camp (also called Noss) is an Iron Age hill fort in the parish of Kingswear close to Dartmouth in Devon, England. The fort is situated on the south western slope of a…

Grimsbury Castle

Grimsbury Castle is an Iron Age "multiple enclosure" Hill Fort comprising a large circular encampment on a high hill. It is within Grimsbury Wood, between Cold Ash and Hermitage,…

Grovely Castle

Grovely Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hill fort in the parish of Steeple Langford, in Wiltshire. The remaining ramparts stand approximately 3.2 m high, with 1.5 m…

Gurnard's Head

Gurnard's Head is a prominent headland on the north coast of the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, England. Gurnard's Head is the site of basaltic pillow lavas, formed by underwater…

Habitancum

Habitancum was an ancient Roman fort located at Risingham, Northumberland. The fort's name is derived from the word Habitanci inscribed on an altar set up by Marcus Gavius…

Halwell Camp

Halwell Camp is an Iron Age hill fort (c. 1500-500 BC) situated close to the village of Halwell in Devon, England. The fort occupies a strategic position on a pass between two…

Hambledon Hill

Hambledon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, in the Blackmore Vale five miles northwest of Blandford Forum. The hill itself is a chalk outcrop, on the…

Ham Hill Hillfort

Ham Hill Hillfort is an Iron Age hillfort on Ham Hill in Somerset, England, dating to 1500–500 BC. Evidence shows earlier Mesolithic and Neolithic occupation, followed by Roman…

Hardknott Roman Fort

Hardknott Roman Fort is an archeological site, the remains of the Roman fort Mediobogdum, located on the western side of the challenging Hardknott Pass in the English Lake…

Hascombe Hill

Hascombe Hill or Hascombe Camp is the site of an Iron Age multivallate hill fort close to the village of Hascombe in Surrey, England. The site was excavated in 1931 by S. E.…

Hawkesdown Hill

Hawkesdown Hill, also known as Hawkesdown Camp, is an Iron Age Hill fort close to Axmouth in Devon. It is situated on a prominent hillside above the Axe Estuary and is…

Helsby Hill Fort

Helsby hill fort is an Iron Age hillfort overlooking the village of Helsby in Cheshire. Helsby Hill has steep cliffs on the northern and western sides, providing a natural…

Hembury Castle, Buckfast

Hembury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort about a mile north-west of the village of Buckfast on the south-eastern edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England. The fort is about 178 metres…

Hembury Castle, Tythecott

Hembury Castle is an Iron Age promontory hill fort near Tythecott, south of Buckland Brewer in Devon, situated at 137 metres above sea level. The defences consist of an inner…

Hod Hill

Hod Hill is a large hill fort in the Blackmore Vale, 3 miles north-west of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. The fort sits on a 143 m chalk hill of the same name that lies between…

Holkham Camp

Holkham Camp, or Holkham Fort, is an Iron Age fort in Norfolk, England, about 1 mile north-west of the village of Holkham. It is a scheduled monument. The western side is…

Hollingbury Castle

Hollingbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort on the northern edge of Brighton, East Sussex, enclosing about 3.6 hectares within a single bank and ditch of roughly square plan with…

Holne Chase Castle

Holne Chase Castle is a slight univallate Iron Age hillfort in Devon, England, built during the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age transition (8th-5th centuries BC). The oval…

Horse Pool Camp

Horse Pool Camp, also known as Whitestaunton Camp, is a univallate Iron Age hillfort in South Somerset, England, situated about 1.6 km west of Whitestaunton near the Devon border.…

Housesteads Roman Fort

Housesteads Roman Fort was an auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall, at Housesteads, Northumberland, England. It is dramatically positioned on the end of the 1-mile-long crag of the…

Hunnum

Hunnum (also known as Onnum, and with the modern name of Halton Chesters) was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall located north of the modern-day village of Halton, Northumberland in…

Hunsbury Hill

Hunsbury Hill is an Iron Age hill fort two miles south-west of the centre of the town of Northampton in the county of Northamptonshire. It is also known as Danes Camp. It is…

Huntsham Castle

Huntsham Castle, Devon, England is an Iron Age Hill fort enclosure near the village of Huntsham. The monument includes a slight univallate hillfort situated on a prominent hill…

Ivington Camp

An Iron Age multivallate hillfort located at Brierley, 3 km south of Leominster, Herefordshire. The site encompasses an inner enclosure of about 24 acres surrounded by a rampart,…

Kelly Rounds

Kelly Rounds (Castle Killibury) is a bivallate Iron Age hillfort covering 5 hectares near Wadebridge in Cornwall, England. Radiocarbon dating places the main occupation between…

Kelsborrow Castle

Kelsborrow Castle is an Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire, northern England. In the 19th century, a bronze palstave was recovered from the site. Along with Eddisbury and Oakmere,…

Kenwalch's Castle

Kenwalch's Castle is probably an Iron Age hill fort that may have been converted into a Roman fortress, near Penselwood, Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. It…

Kimsbury Hill Fort

Kimsbury hill fort, also known as Castle Godwyn, Kimsbury Camp, Painswick Beacon or Painswick hill fort is an Iron Age hill fort on Painswick Beacon near Painswick in the…

King John's Hill

King John's Hill is the site of an Iron Age hillfort located in Hampshire, in southeast England. King John's Hill is a small multivallate hillfort, a fort with multiple defensive…

King's Castle, Wiveliscombe

King's Castle is an Iron Age Hillfort 1 kilometre east of Wiveliscombe in Somerset, England. It is surrounded by two banks with a ditch between them. The inner wall ranges up to…

Kingsdown Camp

Kingsdown Camp is an Iron Age hillfort at Buckland Dinham 4.5 kilometres South East of Radstock, Somerset. It is a Scheduled Monument. It is a univallate hillfort with an area of…

Kings Weston Hill

Kings Weston Hill is a hill in the north of Bristol. It forms a ridge about 1 mile long, extending from Henbury to Shirehampton and separating Lawrence Weston to the north from…

Kinver Edge Hillfort

Kinver Edge Hillfort, is a univallate Iron Age hillfort with a massive rampart and outer ditch along the south-west and south-east sides, with natural defences on the remaining…

Knoll Camp

Knoll Camp, or Damerham Knoll, is the site of an Iron Age univallate hill fort located in Hampshire. The fort comprises a circular earthwork containing about four acres. There is…

Knook Castle

Knook Castle is an Iron Age univallate hillfort on Knook Down in Wiltshire, England, located near the village of Knook but largely within the civil parish of Upton Lovell. The…

Knowle Hill Castle

Knowle Hill Castle is an Iron Age hillfort near Braunton in Devon, England, situated on a promontory approximately 90 metres above sea level overlooking the River Caen. The…

Lambert's Castle

Lambert's Castle is an Iron Age hillfort 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…

Lancaster Roman Fort

Lancaster Roman Fort is the modern name given to a ruined former Roman fort atop Castle Hill in Lancaster in North West England. The first fort at Lancaster was built out of…

Largin Castle

Largin Castle is a contour hillfort and scheduled monument in Cornwall presumed to date from the Iron Age. Largin Castle is situated approximately 4.5 kilometres west of Dobwalls,…

Lavatrae

Lavatrae, also known as Lavatris, was a Roman fort in the modern-day village of Bowes, County Durham. The Romans built a fort with wooden ramparts at Lavatrae in the early AD 70s,…

Lescudjack Hill Fort

Lescudjack Hill fort is the name given to the unexcavated Iron Age settlement located in Penzance, Cornwall. It is positioned on the summit of a steep hill in the east of Penzance…

Lesingey Round

Lesingey Round is a ringfort, a smaller type of hillfort, about 1 mile west of Penzance, in Cornwall. It is a scheduled monument. Lesingey Round is situated at the summit of a…

Liddington Castle

Liddington Castle, locally called Liddington Camp, is a late Bronze Age and early Iron Age univallate hillfort in Liddington parish in the English county of Wiltshire. The site is…

Longovicium

Longovicium was an auxiliary fort located on Roman Dere Street, in the Roman province of Britannia Inferior. It is located just southwest of Lanchester in the English county of…

Loughton Camp

Loughton Camp is an Iron Age (~500 BC) Hill fort in Epping Forest, one mile northwest of the town of Loughton. The camp's earthworks cover an area of approximately 10 acres and…

Maen Castle

Maen Castle is an Iron Age promontory fort or 'cliff castle' close to Land's End in Cornwall. Maen Castle is one of only two fortified sites in Cornwall where Early Iron Age…

Maesbury Castle

Maesbury Castle is an Iron Age univallate hill fort in the parish of Croscombe on the Mendip Hills, north of Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England. The enclosure covers 2.5 hectares…

Maes Knoll

Maes Knoll is an Iron Age hill fort 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…

Magnis, Carvoran

Magnis or Magna was a Roman fort near Hadrian's Wall in northern Britain. Its ruins are now known as Carvoran Roman Fort and are located near Carvoran, Northumberland. It was…

Maiden Bower Hill Fort

Maiden Bower is a multi-period hillfort and causewayed enclosure near Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England, dating from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. The site, a scheduled…

Maiden Castle, Cheshire

Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hill fort, one of many fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age, but one of only seven in the county of Cheshire…

Maiden Castle, Dorset

Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hillfort 1.6 mi southwest of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. The earliest archaeological evidence of human activity on the site consists…

Mais, Bowness

Maia, or Mais, in Cumbria, England was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall, and was the last fort at the western end of the Wall, overlooking the Solway Firth. The fort was the second…

Mamucium

Mamucium, also known as Mancunium, is a former Roman fort in the Castlefield area of Manchester in North West England. The Romans built the fort on a naturally defensible…

Mellor Hill Fort

Mellor hill fort is a prehistoric site in North West England dating from the British Iron Age – about 800 BC to 100 AD. Situated on a hill in Mellor, Greater Manchester, on the…

Membury Camp

Iron Age hill fort spanning the Wiltshire-Berkshire border, occupying 14 hectares on a small plateau's southwestern corner. The single ditch with outer and inner banks encloses a…

Membury Castle

Membury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort situated above the village of Membury in Devon. The fort occupies a commanding hilltop position some 204 metres (669 ft) above sea level…

Milber Down

Milber Down is an Iron Age hill fort on the hill above the suburb of Milber, Newton Abbot in Devon. The fort is situated on the north-western slope of Milber Down at about 110…

Mount Caburn

Mount Caburn is a 150-metre (492 ft) prominent landmark in East Sussex, England, about one mile (1.6 km) east of Lewes overlooking the village of Glynde. It is the highest part of…

Musbury Castle

Musbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort located above the village of Musbury in Devon, England. The fortress sits on a commanding hilltop approximately 175 metres (575 ft) above…

Navio Roman Fort

Navio Roman fort overlooks a tight bend of the River Noe at Brough-on-Noe near Hope, Derbyshire. Excavations in the 1930s by Sir Ian Richmond and J.P. Gillam established the…

Nordy Bank

Nordy Bank is an Iron Age univallate hillfort on the western spur of Brown Clee Hill in Shropshire, England. The oval enclosure measures 260m by 200m, covering 3.2 hectares,…

Norsebury Ring

Norsebury Ring is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Hampshire. A magnetometry survey in 1997 revealed two entrances (at the southeast and southwest) and found…

Norton Camp

Norton Camp is a Bronze Age hill fort at Norton Fitzwarren near Taunton in Somerset. The earthwork consists of a single circular rampart up to 3 m high, with three holloway…

Oakmere Hill Fort

Oakmere hill fort is an Iron Age hill fort, one of many large fortified settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age, but one of only seven in the county of Cheshire…

Oldberry Castle

Oldberry Castle (sometimes called Oldbury Castle) is an Iron Age hill fort north west of Dulverton, Somerset, England. It lies approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north-west from…

Old Oswestry

Old Oswestry is a large early Iron Age hill fort in the Welsh Marches near Oswestry in north west Shropshire, England. The hill fort was designated as a scheduled monument in…

Old Winchester Hill

Old Winchester Hill is a 66.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire. Despite its name, the hill is around 11 miles from Winchester; it is, however,…

Over Burrow Roman Fort

Over Burrow Roman Fort is the modern name given to a former Roman fort at Over Burrow, Lancashire in North West England. The fort was likely built on the slight prominence…

Padderbury Top

Padderbury Top is a hillfort about 2 miles (3.2 km) south-east of Menheniot, in Cornwall, England, named after the hill on which it is situated. It is a scheduled monument. The…

Perborough Castle

Perborough Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located at Compton in Berkshire. The site covers approximately 14 acres (5.7 ha), and lies on the chalky downs of…

Petriana

Uxelodunum (with the alternative Roman name of Petriana and the modern name of Stanwix Fort) was a Roman fort with associated civilian settlement in modern-day Carlisle, Cumbria,…

Piercebridge Roman Fort

Piercebridge Roman Fort is a scheduled ancient monument situated in the village of Piercebridge on the banks of the River Tees in modern-day County Durham. There were Romans here…

Plainsfield Camp

Plainsfield Camp (also called Park Plantation or Cockercombe Castle) is a probable Iron Age earthwork on the Quantock Hills near Aisholt in Somerset, England.

Pons Aelius

Pons Aelius, or Newcastle Roman Fort, was an auxiliary castra and small Roman settlement on Hadrian's Wall in the Roman province of Britannia Inferior, situated on the north bank…

Portfield Hillfort

Portfield (Planes Wood Camp) is a late Bronze Age or Iron Age hillfort located near Whalley in Lancashire, England. The original univallate (single rampart) structure was later…

Portus Adurni

Portus Adurni is a 3rd-century Roman Saxon Shore fort at the north end of Portsmouth Harbour, widely regarded as the best-preserved Roman fort north of the Alps. Enclosing 9 acres…

Portus Lemanis

Portus Lemanis, also known as Lemanae, was the Latin name of a Roman Saxon Shore fort, settlement and port in southern Kent. The first documentary mention of the site is found in…

Posbury Hill Fort

Posbury Hill Fort is an unexcavated Iron Age Hill fort, located three miles south-west of Crediton. It consists today of an incomplete earthwork partly enclosing a hilltop 180…

Poston Camp

Poston Camp is an Iron Age hillfort located just south of Vowchurch in Herefordshire, England, and is a scheduled monument. It is one of over 30 Iron Age hillforts in…

Prestonbury Castle

Prestonbury Castle is an Iron Age Hill fort on the north east edge of Dartmoor in Devon. Situated on a massive hilltop some 240 metres above sea level overlooking the Teign…

Prideaux Castle

Prideaux Castle is a multivallate Iron Age hillfort situated atop a 133 m (435 ft) high conical hill near the southern boundary of the parish of Luxulyan, Cornwall, England. It is…

Quarley Hill

Quarley Hill is the site of an Iron Age univallate hill fort in Hampshire, southern England. Oval in plan, the fort is in good condition with a counter-scarp and well defined…

Rainsborough Camp

Rainsborough Camp is a bivallate Iron Age hillfort in West Northamptonshire, England, covering 2.5 hectares. The ramparts were built in the 5th century BC, with the inner ring of…

Richborough Castle

Richborough Castle is a Roman Saxon Shore fort better known as Richborough Roman Fort. It is situated in Richborough near Sandwich. Substantial remains of the massive fort walls…

Ringsbury Camp

An Iron Age multivallate hillfort dating to approximately 50 BC in the parish of Purton, Wiltshire. The scheduled monument encloses 3.4 hectares within double banks: the inner…

Roddenbury Hillfort

Roddenbury Hillfort is a univallate Iron Age hillfort in the parish of Selwood, Somerset. It is a Scheduled Monument and it was on the Heritage at Risk Register in 2011. The site…

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. The hill…

Scratchbury Camp

Scratchbury Camp is an Iron Age univallate hillfort on Scratchbury Hill, overlooking the Wylye valley about 1 km northeast of Norton Bavant in Wiltshire, England. The fort…

Segedunum

Segedunum was a Roman fort at modern-day Wallsend, North Tyneside in North East England. The fort lay at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall near the banks of the River Tyne. The…

Segsbury Camp

Segsbury Camp or Segsbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort on the crest of the Berkshire Downs, near the Ridgeway above Wantage, in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire,…

Shoulsbury Castle

An Iron Age hillfort on Shoulsbarrow Common near Challacombe in Devon, England, at 460 m elevation on Exmoor. The rectangular enclosure measures approximately 147 x 142 m with…

Sidbury Castle

Sidbury Castle is a substantial Iron Age hill fort situated near Sidbury in Devon, England. The fortress occupies a hilltop position approximately 185 metres (607 ft) above sea…

Sidbury Hill

Sidbury Hill, or Sidbury Camp, is the site of an Iron Age bivallate hillfort on the eastern edge of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. The site is sub-triangular in shape,…

Slapton Castle

Slapton Castle is an Iron Age hill fort situated on a promontory near Slapton in Devon, England, at approximately 65 metres above sea level overlooking Slapton Ley. The fort…

Small Down Knoll

Small Down Knoll, or Small Down Camp, is a Bronze Age multivallate hill fort near Evercreech on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, rising to 222 m. The…

Smythapark

Smythapark is the site of an Iron Age hill fort, situated close to the village of Bratton Fleming in Devon. The site is on a hillside forming a promontory above a tributary of the…

Solsbury Hill

Little Solsbury Hill is an Iron Age hillfort above Batheaston in Somerset, England, occupied from approximately 300 to 100 BC. The triangular hilltop was enclosed by a univallate…

South Weald Camp

South Weald Camp was a hillfort based in South Weald, Brentwood, Essex. Roughly circular in plan, the fort covered 2.8 hectares, with a suggested construction date in the late…

Stanborough

Stanborough is the site of an Iron Age hill fort near the village of Halwell, south of Totnes, Devon. The fort is situated on a promontory on the western edge of a hill at about…

Stantonbury Camp

Stantonbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age hill fort near Stanton Prior within the parish of Marksbury in Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The hillfort,…

St Catherine's Hill, Hampshire

St. Catherine's Hill is a chalk downland hill in Hampshire topped by an Iron Age hillfort (c. 500–300 BC), a Scheduled Monument. The 43‑hectare (110‑acre) site is a biological…

Stoke Hill

Stoke Hill is a large hill rising to the north of Exeter in Devon, England. It is significant as the site of both an Iron Age hill fort and a later Roman signal station. The hill…

Stokeleigh Camp

Stokeleigh Camp is an Iron Age promontory fort in Leigh Woods North Somerset near Bristol. Stokeleigh Camp is situated on a promontory, and occupies around 7.5 acres. It was…

Stonea Camp

Stonea Camp is an Iron Age multivallate hill fort at Stonea near March in the Cambridgeshire Fens, situated on a gravel bank just 2 metres above sea-level, making it the lowest…

Strutt's Park Roman Fort

Strutt's Park Roman Fort was a Roman fort in Strutt's Park, a suburb of Derby in Derbyshire. It was built around the year 50 and replaced, probably between the years 75 and 80, by…

Sutton Walls Hill Fort

Sutton Walls is an elongated ovoid Iron Age hillfort located 4 miles north of Hereford, England. Excavated by Dame Kathleen Kenyon (1948-1951), the site revealed a war cemetery of…

Taps Combe Camp

Taps Combe Camp (also known as Chelvey Batch Settlement) is an Iron Age hill fort in North Somerset, England. The hill fort is situated approximately 1.8 miles (2.9 km) east from…

Tedbury Camp

Tedbury Camp is a multivallate Iron Age promontory hill fort defended by two parallel banks near Great Elm, Somerset, England. Further excavations and explorations of the site…

The Frith

The Frith is a small univallate Iron Age hillfort to the north of Silchester, Calleva Atrebatum, Roman town in the English county of Hampshire. A single bank covers all sides…

The Rumps

The Rumps is a twin-headland promontory at the north-east corner of Pentire Head in north Cornwall, England. The promontory is formed from hard basaltic rock and projects north…

The Trundle

The Trundle is a hillfort on St Roche's Hill about 4 miles north of Chichester, West Sussex. It was built in the Iron Age on the site of a causewayed enclosure, a form of early…

Thundersbarrow Hill

A multi-period archaeological site on a chalk ridge of the South Downs north of Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex. The site includes a late Bronze Age Martin Down-style enclosure…

Tidbury Ring

Tidbury Ring is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Hampshire. The earthworks have been heavily destroyed by ploughing, but some sections to the south remain in…

Toothill Fort

Toothill Fort, or Toothill Ring, or Toothill camp, is the site of an Iron Age univallate hill fort located in Hampshire. The site occupies an extremely strong position at the…

Torberry Hill

Torberry Hill (also spelled Tarberry Hill and Torbery Hill) is an Iron Age hillfort in the county of West Sussex, in southern England. The hill fort is located within the parish…

Trencrom Hill

Trencrom Hill is a prominent hill fort in Cornwall, England, owned by the National Trust near Lelant. It is crowned by an univallate Neolithic tor enclosure, which was later…

Treryn Dinas

Treryn Dinas is a headland near Treen, on the Penwith peninsula between Penberth Cove and Porthcurno in Cornwall, England. It is a scheduled monument. It is the site of a…

Tunley Camp

Tunley Camp is an Iron Age hill fort situated 1.3 km (0.8 mi) north-east of Camerton in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England. The site retains the slight earthwork…

Uffington Castle

Uffington Castle is an early Iron Age (with underlying Bronze Age) univallate hillfort in Oxfordshire, England. It covers about 3.2 ha and is surrounded by two earth banks…

Uley Bury

Uley Bury is the long, flat-topped hill just outside Uley, Gloucestershire. It is an impressive multi-vallate, scarp-edge Iron Age hill fort dating from around 300 B.C. Standing…

Verterae

Verterae was a Roman fort in the modern-day village of Brough, Cumbria, England. Occupied between the 1st and 5th centuries AD, it protected a key Roman road in the north of…

Vespasian's Camp

Vespasian's Camp is an Iron Age hillfort just west of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire. The hillfort is less than 3 kilometres from the Neolithic and Bronze Age site of Stonehenge,…

Vindobala

A Roman auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall at modern Rudchester, Northumberland, covering 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) and measuring 157 by 117 metres. The fourth fort west along the Wall, it…

Vindolanda

Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it pre-dated. Archaeological excavations of the site show it was under Roman…

Vindomora

Vindomora was an auxiliary fort on Dere Street, in the province of Lower Britain (Britannia Inferior). Its ruins, now known as Ebchester Roman Fort, are situated at Ebchester in…

Vinovia

Vinovia or Vinovium was a Roman fort and settlement situated just over 1 mile to the north of the town of Bishop Auckland on the banks of the River Wear in County Durham. The fort…

Virosidum

Virosidum was a Roman fort and settlement situated near to the modern town of Bainbridge, North Yorkshire. The fort occupies a strategic position on the summit of Brough Hill,…

Voley Castle

Voley Castle is an Iron Age hill fort located near Parracombe in north Devon, England. It sits on a promontory on the eastern slope of Heale Down at approximately 230 metres (750…

Wadbury Camp

Wadbury Camp is a promontory fort in Somerset, England that protected the mining district of the Mendip Hills in pre-Roman times. Wadbury camp lies on a ridge to the north of the…

Wain's Hill

Wain's Hill is an univallate Iron Age hill fort located approximately 1.6 km (1 mile) south-west of Clevedon in North Somerset, England. The site occupies a naturally defensible…

Wandlebury Hill Fort

Wandlebury Hill Fort, also known as the Wandlebury Ring, is an Iron Age hillfort located on Wandlebury Hill in the Gog Magog Hills, Cambridgeshire, England, to the southeast of…

Wapley Hill

Wapley Hill is an Iron Age hill fort in Herefordshire, England, 3 km south-east of Presteigne. Wapley Hill stands in mixed woodland on a west-facing escarpment to the south of the…

Warham Camp

Warham Camp is an Iron Age circular hillfort with a diameter of 212 metres located near Warham, south of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, England. It is a scheduled monument dated…

Washing Wells Roman Fort

Washing Wells was a Roman fort in Britannia, discovered from aerial photographs in 1970 southeast of Whickham in Gateshead, overlooking the Team Valley. The trapezoid fort…

Wasteberry Camp

Wasteberry Camp is an Iron Age hill fort situated close to the hamlet of Blackpool, southeast of Plympton, Devon. The fort is situated on a hilltop in Warren Wood at approximately…

Welshbury Hill

Welshbury Hill Fort is reputed to be the place where the Celtic Dobunni tribe staged its last battle against the Romans after a long-running guerrilla war. There is an ancient…

Westbury Camp

Westbury Camp is a univallate Iron Age hill fort in the Mendip Hills in Somerset. The hill fort is situated in the parish of Rodney Stoke, approximately 1 mile north-east of the…

Whitley Castle

Whitley Castle is a large, unusually shaped Roman fort north-west of the town of Alston, Cumbria. It is the highest stone-built Roman fort in Britain. The castrum, which was first…

Whitsbury Castle

Whitsbury Castle Ditches is an Iron Age hillfort near Whitsbury in Hampshire, on a chalk outcrop. Excavations reveal multi-period use spanning from Mesolithic activity through…

Wilbury Hill Camp

Wilbury Hill Camp is a late Bronze Age (about 700 BC) hill fort west of Letchworth in Hertfordshire. It and Arbury Banks near Ashwell are two of a line of six similar hill forts…

Wincobank - Hill Fort

Wincobank is an Iron Age hill fort near Wincobank in Sheffield. The fort stands on an isolated sandstone hill that forms the northern side of the river valley of the River Don.…

Woodbury Castle

Woodbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort near the village of Woodbury in the English county of Devon, some eight miles southeast of the city of Exeter. The fort is situated on a…

Woodbury Hill, Dorset

Woodbury Hill is a hill near Bere Regis in Dorset, England. It is the site of an Iron Age hillfort, and the location of an annual fair from medieval times until the mid 20th…

Woodbury Hill, Worcestershire

Woodbury Hill is a hill near the village of Great Witley, about 5 miles south-west of Stourport-on-Severn in Worcestershire. It is the site of an Iron Age hillfort. The hill…

Woodbury, Stoke Fleming

Woodbury is an Iron Age hillfort situated in the parish of Stoke Fleming, close to Dartmouth in Devon. The fort is situated on a promontory on the southern side of Norton Down at…

Woodhouse Hill Fort

Woodhouse hill fort is an Iron Age hillfort between Frodsham and Helsby in Cheshire, England. It lies at the northern end of the Mid Cheshire Ridge. Woodhouse Hill has steep…

Woolbury

Woolbury, or Woolbury Ring, is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort on Stockbridge Down, Hampshire. The site is described as a strong hilltop camp covering 20 acres, with a…

Woolsbarrow Hillfort

Woolsbarrow Hillfort is a hillfort on Bloxworth Heath in the county of Dorset. It dates to the period from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age (8th–5th centuries BC) and is…

Wooston Castle

Wooston Castle is an Iron Age multivallate hillfort overlooking the River Teign valley in Devon, designated a Scheduled Monument. The inner enclosure measures roughly 160 by 140…

Worlebury Camp

Worlebury Camp is an Iron Age hillfort on Worlebury Hill, north of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. The fort was heavily defended with multiple walls, embankments and…

Wychbury Ring

Wychbury Ring is an Iron Age hill fort located on Wychbury Hill, near Hagley, Stourbridge. The fort measures 250 m from east to west and 150 m from north to south, covering an…

Yarnbury Castle

Yarnbury Castle is the site of a multiphase, multivallate Iron Age hillfort near the village of Steeple Langford, Wiltshire. The site covers an area of 28.5 acres, and was…

Alchester - Roman Town

Alchester is the site of a Roman town about 3 km south of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England, whose ancient name remains unknown. Excavations revealed it was one of the earliest…

All Cannings Cross

All Cannings Cross is an archaeological site near Devizes in Wiltshire, England, and a scheduled ancient monument. It is notable as the first site where the emergence of Iron Age…

Alverdiscott

Alverdiscott is a village and civil parish in Torridge, Devon, England, 9 km south-south-west of Barnstaple. The area contains a Scheduled Ancient Monument: a Roman marching camp.

Ancaster, Lincolnshire

A Roman settlement in Lincolnshire, England, possibly ancient Causennae, at the junction of Ermine Street and King Street. A Claudian auxiliary fort was built here shortly after…

Aquae Arnemetiae

Aquae Arnemetiae was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. The settlement was based around its natural warm springs. The Roman occupation ran from around 50 AD to 410…

Aquae Sulis

Aquae Sulis (now the city of Bath, Somerset) was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia, established in the first few years after the Romans arrived in Britain. It is…

Ariconium

Ariconium was a road station of Roman Britain mentioned in Iter XIII of the Iter Britanniarum of the Antonine Itineraries. It was located at Bury Hill in the parish of Weston…

Ashwell, Hertfordshire

A village in Hertfordshire with deep archaeological significance. Southwest of the settlement lies Arbury Banks, the remains of an Iron Age hill fort largely levelled. In 2002,…

Aylesbury

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle portrays Aylesbury as being captured from the Britons by one Cuthwulf following the Battle of Bedcanford; the historicity of this event is doubtful, but…

Bannaventa

Bannaventa or Benaventa was a Romano-British fortified town which was situated on the Roman road later called Watling Street. Bannaventa straddles the boundaries of Norton and…

Barton-le-Clay

Barton-le-Clay is a village in Central Bedfordshire, England, at the foot of the Chiltern Hills. The village itself is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Bayston Hill

Bayston Hill is a village in Shropshire, England, located 5 km south of Shrewsbury, with evidence of both an Iron Age hillfort and a Roman settlement on its high grounds.…

Beckfoot

Beckfoot is a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme St Cuthbert in Cumbria, England, situated on the B5300 coast road approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Silloth-on-Solway and 2…

Blewbury

Blewbury is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, situated at the foot of the Berkshire Downs on the North Wessex Downs. The southern part of the parish encompasses…

Blick Mead

Blick Mead is a chalkland spring in Wiltshire, England, separated by the River Avon from the northwest edge of the town of Amesbury. It is close to an Iron Age hillfort known as…

Bosporthennis

Bosporthennis is a Late Iron Age settlement in the civil parish of Zennor on the Penwith peninsula, west Cornwall, England. The site comprises at least three courtyard houses at…

Bouldnor Cliff

Bouldnor Cliff is a submerged prehistoric settlement site in the Solent. The site dates from the Mesolithic era and is in approximately 11 metres of water just offshore of the…

Brampton, Norfolk

Brampton is a village in Norfolk's Bure Valley, east of Aylsham, notable for a major Roman industrial settlement. Archaeological excavations in the 1960s revealed a Roman bath…

Braughing - Roman Town

Braughing was a small Roman town in Hertfordshire, situated at the navigable extremity of the River Rib and at the junction of Ermine Street and Stane Street. Iron Age settlement…

Brean Down Fort

Brean Down Fort is a Victorian Palmerston Fort built 18 m above sea level on the Brean Down headland in Somerset, constructed between 1864 and 1871 to defend the Bristol Channel…

Brough, Cumbria

Village in Cumbria built over the Roman fort of Verterae, which guarded the strategic Stainmore Pass across the Pennines between Carlisle and York. The 3-acre rectangular fort was…

Bucknowle Farm

Bucknowle Farm is the site of a Romano-British settlement and a Roman villa, located 1 km southeast of Church Knowle and 1 km southwest of Corfe Castle village in Dorset, England.…

Calcaria

The Romans founded the settlement and named it Calcaria from the Latin word for lime kilns. The nature of the settlement is uncertain. It is possible that it started as an…

Calleva Atrebatum

Calleva Atrebatum was an Iron Age oppidum, the capital of the Atrebates tribe. It then became a walled town in the Roman province of Britannia, at a major crossroads of the roads…

Cambria Farm

Cambria Farm is a multi-period archaeological site spanning the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman periods, located between Ruishton and Taunton in Somerset, England. Excavations…

Camulodunum

Camulodunum, modern Colchester in Essex, was the first capital of Roman Britain. Originally the Celtic oppidum of the Trinovantes tribe under King Cunobelin, it was conquered…

Capton

Capton is a small village near Dartmouth in South Devon, England. On a hilltop to the east of the village, at approximately 185 metres (600 ft) above sea level, lies an Iron Age…

Cardurnock

Cardurnock is a Roman-era coastal settlement in Cumbria, England, situated 20 km west of Carlisle. The western extension of Hadrian's Wall frontier defences once traversed the…

Carn Brea, Redruth

Carn Brea is a Neolithic tor enclosure in Cornwall, England, located 1.6 km southwest of Redruth. The fortified hilltop settlement was occupied between 3700 and 3400 BC.…

Castallack Round

Castallack Round or Roundago is a prehistoric site near Castallack in Cornwall, England. It is a scheduled monument. The site is near the summit of a ridge overlooking the Lamorna…

Castle Folds

Castle Folds or Castlesteads was a Romano-British walled settlement on Great Asby Scar – an area of limestone pavement in the parish of Asby, Cumbria. In medieval times, it was…

Cataractonium

Cataractonium was a fort and settlement in Roman Britain. The settlement evolved into Catterick, located in North Yorkshire. The name is attested as Cataractonium in two…

Chelmsford

Chelmsford is the county town of Essex, England, with roots stretching back to the Neolithic period. Remains of a Neolithic causewayed enclosure and a Late Bronze Age defended…

Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Chesterfield originated as a Roman auxiliary fort built c. AD 54-55 on a spur overlooking the River Rother valley in Derbyshire. The fort guarded Ryknield Street, the Roman road…

Cholesbury

Cholesbury Camp is a large, well-preserved Iron Age hillfort in the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, roughly oval in shape and measuring approximately 310 m by 230 m. It is a…

Clare, Suffolk

Clare is a market town on the River Stour in Suffolk with evidence of human habitation spanning from the Paleolithic to the present. Clare Camp, featuring impressive double…

Clausentum

Clausentum was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. The site is believed to be located in Bitterne Manor, which is now a suburb of Southampton. The settlement is…

Colebrooke, Devon

Colebrooke is a village and parish in Devon, England, about 5 miles (8 km) west of Crediton. Remains of a Roman road agger visible in a field roughly 300 metres south of Rag Lane,…

Corinium Dobunnorum

Corinium Dobunnorum was the Romano-British settlement at Cirencester in the present-day English county of Gloucestershire. Its 2nd-century walls enclosed the second-largest area…

Costa Beck

Costa Beck is a small river near Pickering in North Yorkshire whose name also designates an archaeological site. John Kirk excavated the Costa Beck site between 1925 and 1929,…

Credenhill

Credenhill Camp is an Iron Age univallate hillfort in Herefordshire, one of the largest in Britain at approximately 20 hectares, occupied from c.750 BC to 45 AD. The single…

Cullompton

Cullompton is a town in Mid Devon, England, with its earliest evidence of occupation from the Roman period. Two Roman forts were discovered on St Andrew's Hill in 1984 through…

Cunetio

Cunetio was a large walled town in a valley of the River Kennet in modern-day Wiltshire, England. Occupied from the 2nd century AD by Romano-British people, the settlement was…

Danbury, Essex

Danbury is a village in Essex, England, built on a hilltop 112 metres above sea level that has been occupied for some 12,000 years. The summit preserves the remains of an Iron Age…

Danish Camp

Danish Camp is an Iron Age fortified settlement in Shoeburyness in Essex. The site is in the Gunners Park and Shoebury Ranges nature reserve. This site is classed by Natural…

Deepcar

Deepcar is a Mesolithic archaeological site in South Yorkshire, England, excavated in 1962 near the junction of the Don and Little Don rivers at Wharncliffe Wood. The dig revealed…

Derby Racecourse Roman Settlement

The Derby Racecourse Roman settlement was the third settlement in Derby or Derventio which was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. It lies 600m east of Derventio fort…

Dorn, Gloucestershire

Dorn lies on the west side of the Fosse Way, and there was a small Roman town here. The Roman site was the largest of five defended small towns on the line of the Fosse Way…

Dubris

Dubris, also known as Portus Dubris and Dubrae, was a port in Roman Britain on the site of present-day Dover, Kent, England. At the start of his first attempt to conquer Britain…

Durnovaria

Durnovaria is a suggested spelling for the Latin form of the name of the Roman town of Dorchester in the modern English county of Dorset, amended from the actually observed…

Duropolis

Duropolis is the name of an archaeological site at Winterborne Kingston in the English county of Dorset, believed to be the remains of the first planned town in Britain. The…

Durovernum Cantiacorum

Durovernum Cantiacorum was a town and hillfort in Roman Britain at the site of present-day Canterbury in Kent. It occupied a strategic location on Watling Street at the best local…

Earl Shilton

The village of Earl Shilton would evolve on Shilton Hill in what would be south Leicestershire. Below the hill ran an ancient trackway known as the Salt Road, connecting east and…

Ebbsfleet Valley

Ebbsfleet Valley in Kent, England, is an extraordinarily rich archaeological landscape spanning from the Palaeolithic to the modern era. The valley gave its name to the Ebbsfleet…

Eboracum

Eboracum was a fort and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia. In its prime it was the largest town in northern Britannia and a provincial capital. The site remained…

Foxholes, Hertford

Foxholes is an eastern suburb of Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. Archaeological excavations have uncovered finds indicating Roman occupation from the 1st to 4th century AD. The…

Frilford

Frilford (in Marcham parish) is a major Romano-British religious complex in Oxfordshire featuring a Romano-Celtic temple, a circular rotunda, and what may be an amphitheatre or…

Gerrards Cross

Gerrards Cross is a town in Buckinghamshire, England, on the lower slopes of the Chiltern Hills near the River Misbourne. The area contains Bulstrode Park Camp, an Iron Age…

Glassonby

The Glassonby stone circle (actually a kerbed cairn) is at OS reference NY57293934 on private land. An oval cairn is surrounded by a ring of kerb stones (30 stones in all,…

Goldsborough, Scarborough

Goldsborough, near Whitby in North Yorkshire, preserves a late 4th-century AD Roman signal station, part of a 60 km coastal chain from Huntcliff to Filey built around 370 CE to…

Great and Little Kimble cum Marsh

Great and Little Kimble cum Marsh is a civil parish in central Buckinghamshire, England, located 5 miles (8 km) south of Aylesbury. The parish encompasses the ancient villages of…

Great Casterton

Roman fort established c. 44 AD on the north bank of the River Gwash during the Claudian campaigns, guarding the crossing of Ermine Street. The 6-acre fort housed auxiliary…

Great Wymondley

A village near Hitchin in Hertfordshire containing two scheduled ancient monuments. Wymondley Roman Villa, near Ninesprings in the River Purwell valley, was partly excavated in…

Grimspound

Grimspound is a late Bronze Age settlement, situated on Dartmoor in Devon, England. In 1893 an archaeological dig was carried out by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, which…

Grimstock Hill Romano-British Settlement

Grimstock Hill, located north of the River Cole in Coleshill, Warwickshire, was a Romano-British settlement. Discovered in 1978, the site revealed a temple complex with evidence…

Hengistbury Head

Hengistbury Head, formerly also called Christchurch Head, is a headland jutting into the English Channel between Bournemouth and Mudeford in the English county of Dorset. It is a…

Heronbridge Roman Site

Heronbridge Roman Site is the remains of a Roman settlement on both sides of Watling Street, about 2 kilometres south of Chester in Cheshire, England, with evidence of industrial…

Horncastle

Although fortified, Horncastle was not on any important Roman roads, which suggests that the River Bain was the principal route of access to it. Horncastle lies 7 miles from…

Hound Tor

Hound Tor is a tor on Dartmoor, Devon, England and is a good example of a heavily weathered granite outcrop. The site is administered by Dartmoor National Park Authority for…

Huckhoe Settlement

Huckhoe Settlement is an archaeological site in Northumberland, England, near the village of Bolam and about 7 miles (11 km) west of Morpeth. The site shows occupation, in at…

Hundatorra

Bronze Age settlement emerged around 1700-1200 BCE at Hundatorra, a deserted village on Dartmoor's northeast-facing slopes at 340 metres elevation. The site was abandoned by 1000…

Ide, Devon

A village in Devon, England, 1.6 km southwest of Exeter, notable for a Roman signal station on the hilltop above the settlement. The village church is dedicated to Saint Ida of…

Isca Dumnoniorum

Isca Dumnoniorum was originally a Roman legionary fortress for the Second Augustan Legion (established c. AD 55) in the Roman province of Britannia at the site of present-day…

Isurium Brigantum

Isurium or Isurium of the Brigantes (Latin: Isurium Brigantum) was a Roman fort and town in the province of Britannia at the site of present-day Aldborough in North Yorkshire,…

Ivinghoe

Ivinghoe is a historic market town and a civil parish in the east of Buckinghamshire, in England, near the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire borders. The name of the place is of…

Keal Cotes

Keal Cotes is a small village in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, with archaeological evidence of Roman occupation from the 1st to 4th century AD. A 1960s excavation and field…

King's Castle, Wells

King's Castle is an Iron Age enclosed hilltop settlement at the south-western edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset. Though there are many prehistoric sites in the…

Kirkby Thore

Kirkby Thore is the site of the Roman fort Bravoniacum in Cumbria, England. Originally a Flavian turf-and-timber fort (c. AD 69-96), it was destroyed around AD 125 and rebuilt in…

Lactodurum

Lactodurum was a Roman town on Watling Street in the province of Britannia, now the town of Towcester in Northamptonshire, England. First settled in the mid-1st century AD, it…

Lapford

Near the village of Lapford in Mid Devon lies the Bury Barton Roman fort, a Scheduled Monument first identified by Professor St Joseph in 1975. Ground examination in 1980 and…

Leskernick Hill

Leskernick Hill is on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. It is 329m high and has grid reference SX183803. On the south and western slopes of Leskernick Hill are 2 Bronze Age settlements,…

Lindum Colonia

Lindum Colonia was the Roman settlement which is now the City of Lincoln in Lincolnshire. Evidence has been uncovered for the Forum, baths, temples, buildings and shops of the…

Lismore Fields

Lismore Fields is a prehistoric settlement near the River Wye in Buxton, Derbyshire, discovered in 1984 by the Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust while searching for a Roman…

Little Sodbury

Little Sodbury is a village in South Gloucestershire, England, notable for its Iron Age hillfort atop the Cotswold Ridge, accessible via the Cotswold Way. The fort covers…

Little Woodbury

Little Woodbury is the name of an Iron Age archaeological site in Britford parish, near Salisbury in the English county of Wiltshire. The site lies about 1+1⁄4 miles south of the…

Luguvalium

Luguvalium was an ancient Roman city in northern Britain located within present-day Carlisle, Cumbria, and may have been the capital of the 4th-century province of Valentia. It…

Maiden Castle, North Yorkshire

Maiden Castle is a settlement in Grinton, North Yorkshire which probably dates from the Iron Age. It is listed as a scheduled monument. The site measures 108 by 88 m, covering…

Margidunum

Margidunum was a Roman settlement on the Fosse Way at Castle Hill near present-day Bingham, in Nottinghamshire. The Antonine Itinerary, a 2nd-century Roman register of places and…

Maryport

Maryport lies approximately 5 miles north-west of the Lake District National Park. It includes the site of the Roman settlement of Alauna. Evidence for Final Palaeolithic and…

Meare Lake Village

Meare Lake Village is the site of an Iron Age settlement on the Somerset Levels at Meare, Somerset, England. In prehistoric times there were two villages situated within the…

Medmenham

Medmenham in Buckinghamshire, England, is notable for two Iron Age hillforts along the Thames. Medmenham Camp is a univallate hillfort enclosing approximately 17 acres on a spur…

Muntham Court Romano-British Site

The Muntham Court Romano-British site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument on the western edge of Findon village in West Sussex, England. Features include house structures, trackways,…

Must Farm Bronze Age Settlement

Must Farm is a Bronze Age archaeological site consisting of five houses raised on stilts above a river built around 950 BC in Cambridgeshire. The settlement is exceptionally well…

Nether Denton

A Roman fort on the Stanegate road in Cumbria, approximately 0.8 km south of Hadrian's Wall. Built in the late 1st to early 2nd century AD, it was contemporary with Trajanic-era…

Nettleton, Wiltshire

Nettleton is a village and civil parish approximately 10.5 km (6.5 mi) northwest of Chippenham in Wiltshire, England, encompassing the villages of Burton and West Kington.

North Tawton

North Tawton is the site of the Roman fort Nemetostatio in Devon, England, whose name combines Celtic 'nemeton' (sacred grove) with Latin 'statio' (road-station), suggesting it…

Noviomagus Reginorum

Noviomagus Reginorum was Chichester's Roman heart, very little of which survives above ground. It lay in the land of the Atrebates and is in the early medieval-founded English…

Oddendale

Oddendale has a stone circle nearby, (grid reference NY59201290), part of the complex of cairns, stone circles and standing stones that includes the 'Shap Stone Avenue' of…

Old Sarum

Old Sarum is the ruined site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England, with evidence of habitation from around 3000 BC. An Iron Age hillfort was established…

Oram's Arbour

Oram's Arbour was an enclosed settlement (oppidum) during the Iron Age, in what is now Winchester, England. Limited dating evidence suggests the enclosure was dug in the early-mid…

Petuaria

Petuaria was originally a Roman fort situated where the town of Brough in the East Riding of Yorkshire now stands. Petuaria means something like 'quarter' or 'fourth part',…

Ratae Corieltauvorum

Ratae Corieltauvorum or simply Ratae was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Leicester, located in the English county of Leicestershire. Ratae is a…

Ravenglass

Ravenglass was a Roman naval base in Cumbria, England, established during Emperor Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) at the confluence of the rivers Esk, Mite, and Irt. Garrisoned by…

Reculver

Reculver once occupied a strategic location at the north-western end of the Wantsum Channel, a sea lane that separated the Isle of Thanet and the Kent mainland until the late…

Redbourn

Redbourn is a village in Hertfordshire, England, on the line of Roman Watling Street, with archaeological evidence spanning from the Iron Age to the Roman period. Southwest of the…

Roman Middlewich

Roman Middlewich (c. 1st–5th century AD) was established by Romans as Salinae, named for its salt deposits, making it one of the major Roman salt production centers in Britain.…

Rotherley Down Settlement

Rotherley Down Settlement is an archaeological site of the late Iron Age and Romano-British period on Cranborne Chase, England. It is about 1.5 miles south of Berwick St John, and…

Rough Tor

Rough Tor, or Roughtor (Cornish: Torr Garow), is a tor on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The site comprises the tor summit and logan stone, a Neolithic tor…

Sandy, Bedfordshire

Sandy was a significant Romano-British small town in Central Bedfordshire. Recent excavations uncovered the first Roman town wall found in Bedfordshire, built from local ironstone…

Seaton, Cumbria

Seaton is a large village in Cumbria, England, on the north side of the River Derwent opposite Workington. The parish had 5,033 residents in 2021. The archaeological site Burrow…

Shaftoe Crags Settlement

Shaftoe Crags Settlement is an archaeological site in Northumberland, England, about 8 miles west of Morpeth. The site at Shaftoe Crags, with remains dating from the Iron Age and…

Shearplace Hill Enclosure

The Shearplace Hill Enclosure is an archaeological site of the Bronze Age, about 1.5 miles south-west of Cerne Abbas in Dorset. The site, covering about 0.5 hectares, is on a…

Shinewater

A Late Bronze Age settlement discovered in 1995 during clearing of Hydneye lake in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England. The site includes a timber platform. A trackway of three rows…

Sigwells

Sigwells, a rural plateau overlooking the Somerset hill fort, Cadbury Castle, was the site of early excavations by one of the fathers of modern archaeology, General Augustus Pitt…

Slate Hill Settlement

Slate Hill Settlement is an archaeological site in Northumberland, England, near the village of Bolam and about 7 miles west of Morpeth. The site, a defended settlement dating…

Smedmore Hill Settlement

The Smedmore Hill Settlement is an archaeological site about 2 miles south-west of Corfe Castle, in Dorset, England. The site is a settlement and an associated field system,…

South Lodge Camp

South Lodge Camp is an archaeological site of the Bronze Age, about 0.6 miles south-east of the village of Tollard Royal, in Wiltshire. The site is in Berwick St John parish, on a…

Stanwix

Stanwix is built on the site of a Roman fort known as Uxelodunum or Petriana, the former meaning "high fort". The fort was the largest on Hadrian's Wall, which adjoined the…

Star Carr

Star Carr is a Mesolithic archaeological site in North Yorkshire, England, located 8 km south of Scarborough. It is widely regarded as the most important and informative…

Sweetworthy

Sweetworthy is the site of two Iron Age hill forts or enclosures at Luccombe, 4 kilometres south of Porlock, Somerset. They are on the north-facing slope of Dunkery Hill. One has…

Taplow

Taplow is best known for the Taplow Barrow, a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon burial mound. Excavated in 1883, it contained the lavishly furnished grave of a chieftain or prince. Grave…

Tebay

Tebay is a village in the upper Lune Valley, Cumbria, England, with significant Roman-era and medieval archaeological remains. The nearby Low Borrowbridge Roman fort is a…

Templeborough

Templeborough is a suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The area takes its name from the remains of a Roman fort found there, which were mistakenly believed to be those…

Thistleton

Thistleton is a Romano-British settlement site in Rutland, England, positioned on the territorial boundary between the Catuvellauni and Coritani tribes. The settlement extended to…

Thornbury, Herefordshire

Thornbury is a village in Herefordshire, England, 5.5 km north of Bromyard. Two tributaries of the River Frome surround the village. The village has one church and Thornbury Court…

Tiverton, Devon

Tiverton is a town at the confluence of the rivers Exe and Lowman in Devon, England, with human occupation dating to the Stone Age, evidenced by numerous flint tools found in the…

Uley

The Romans built a temple at West Hill, near Uley, on the site of an earlier prehistoric shrine. Following the laying of a water main pipe there in 1976, many discoveries were…

Venta Belgarum

Venta Belgarum, or Venta Bulgarum, was a town in the Roman province of Britannia Superior, the civitas capital of the local tribe, the Belgae, and which later became the city of…

Venta Icenorum

Venta Icenorum was the civitas or capital of the Iceni tribe, located at modern-day Caistor St Edmund in the English county of Norfolk. The town itself was probably laid out, and…

Verlamion

Verlamion, or Verlamio, was a settlement in Iron Age Britain. It was a major centre of the Catuvellauni tribe from about 20 BC until shortly after the Roman invasion of AD 43. It…

Verulamium

Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain. It was sited southwest of the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire. The major ancient Roman route Watling Street passed through the…

Viroconium Cornoviorum

Viroconium or Uriconium, formally Viroconium Cornoviorum, was a Roman city, one corner of which is now occupied by Wroxeter, a small village in Shropshire, England, about 5 miles…

Washingborough

Washingborough is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the lower slopes of Lincoln Cliff limestone escarpment where the…

Wednesbury

Wednesbury is situated five miles southeast of Wolverhampton, three miles southwest of Walsall and seven miles northwest of Birmingham. The substantial remains of a large ditch…

Wendover

Wendover is a town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, situated at the foot of the Chiltern Hills at the junction of the main road across the Chilterns between London…

West Wycombe

West Wycombe Camp is an Iron Age univallate hillfort on Church Hill in Buckinghamshire, enclosing approximately 2.75 acres. The oval enclosure measures 120m by 100m with a ditch…

Whelpley Hill

Whelpley Hill Camp is a univallate defended enclosure on a plateau in the parish of Ashley Green, Buckinghamshire. The roughly oval site measures 120m by 100m, covering 1.8…

Woburn Sands

Danesborough Camp is an Iron Age univallate hillfort on Aspley Heath near Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire. The roughly oval fortification spans 8.5 acres at 500 feet elevation, with…

Woodcutts Settlement

Woodcutts Settlement is an archaeological site of the late Iron Age and Romano-British period on Cranborne Chase, England. It is situated about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the hamlet…

Wraxall Camp

Wraxall Camp, or Failand Camp, is a small round earthwork in Somerset. The remains are indistinct and thickly covered by woods, but it appears to have been an Iron Age farmstead,…

Wraxall, Somerset

Wraxall is a village in North Somerset with archaeological heritage spanning multiple periods. Earthworks of an oval Iron Age settlement, surrounded by a bank and ditch, lie south…

Yeavering

Evidence for human activity in the vicinity has been found from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, although the first significant settlement at Yeavering occurred…

Aballava

Aballava was a Roman fortress on Hadrian's Wall situated about one and a half miles south of the Solway Firth, guarding the Peat Wath and Sandwath fords. The fort stood between…

Arbury Hill

Arbury Hill, at 225 m, is the joint highest point in the English county of Northamptonshire. It is 9 km southwest of the town of Daventry. On the summit of Arbury Hill there are…

Ashleys Copse

Ashley's Copse is an Iron Age hillfort in southern England, located about 13 km (8 mi) northeast of Salisbury and straddling the border between Wiltshire and Hampshire. The site…

Badbury Hill

Badbury Hill is a hill in the civil parish of Great Coxwell near Faringdon in the English county of Oxfordshire. The summit of the hill is the site of an Iron Age hill fort known…

Beacon Hill, Burghclere, Hampshire

(1500-500 BC) Beacon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort near Burghclere in north Hampshire, standing 261 metres (856 ft) high. One of England's most famous hill forts, it occupies a…

Beacon Hill, Leicestershire

Beacon Hill is a hill fort site in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, rising to 248 m above sea level. The monument includes a slight univallate hillfort, a linear boundary, and an…

Berry Castle, Huntshaw

Berry Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in Huntshaw Wood near Weare Giffard, north Devon, occupying a promontory about 95 m above sea level overlooking the valleys of Huntshaw Water…

Berry Head

Berry Head is a coastal headland that forms the southern boundary of Tor Bay in Devon, England. Lying to the east of the town of Brixham, it is a national nature reserve and a…

Blennerhasset and Torpenhow

Blennerhasset Roman Fort is a Scheduled Monument in Cumbria, England, situated on the Roman road between Old Carlisle and Papcastle at the crossing of the River Ellen. Identified…

Bolt Tail

Bolt Tail is a headland in Devon, England, immediately to the southwest of Hope Cove in the South Hams district. Bolt Tail is the site of an Iron Age promontory fort, although…

Borough Hill

Borough Hill is a hill to the east of the town of Daventry in the English county of Northamptonshire. It is over 200 metres above sea level and dominates the surrounding area.…

Borough Hill, Sawston

Borough Hill is a large multivallate hillfort near Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England. The site occupies an oval area measuring 430 metres east to west and 300 metres north to…

Brean Down

Brean Down is a promontory off the coast of Somerset, England. The site has been occupied by humans since the late Bronze Age and includes the remains of a Romano-Celtic Temple.…

Bredon Hill

Bredon Hill is a hill located in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Evesham in the Vale of Evesham. At the summit of the hill, there are the remains of earthworks from an Iron…

Bremenium

Bremenium (High Rochester) is an ancient Roman fort located at Rochester, Northumberland, England. The fort is part of the defensive system built along the extension of Dere…

Bremetennacum

Bremetennacum, ([brɛmɛˈteːnːakʊm]), or Bremetennacum Veteranorum, was a Roman fort on the site of the present day village of Ribchester in Lancashire. The site guarded a…

Bremridge Wood

Bremridge Wood, formerly part of the Domesday Book estate of Bremridge near South Molton, Devon, England, is the site of an Iron Age enclosure or hill fort. The earthwork is…

Brown Clee Hill

Brown Clee Hill is the highest hill in the rural English county of Shropshire. Several Iron Age hill forts are dotted around the Clee Hills. Nordy Bank is the last 'intact'…

Burley Wood

Burley Wood is the site of an Iron Age hill fort north of Lydford in Devon. The fort occupies much of a hilltop some 220 metres above sea level overlooking the river Lew. The site…

Burnham Beeches

Burnham Beeches, a 374.6-hectare woodland near Farnham Common in Buckinghamshire, contains a slight univallate hillfort at Seven Ways Plain dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early…

Burridge Fort

Burridge Fort is an Iron Age Hill fort situated to the North East of Barnstaple in Devon, England. The fort occupies a hill top approx 150 Metres above Sea Level overlooking the…

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…

Caer Bran

Caer Bran Hill Fort is an archaeological site near Sancreed and Carn Euny Iron Age village, on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall. The site consists of an Iron Age hill fort which…

Caer Caradoc

Caer Caradoc (Welsh: Caer Caradog, the fort of Caradog) is a hill in the English county of Shropshire. Caer Caradoc rises sharply out of a narrow valley known as the Stretton Gap.…

Carl Wark

Carl Wark (sometimes Carl's Wark) is a rocky promontory on Hathersage Moor in the Peak District National Park, just inside the boundary of Sheffield, England. The promontory is…

Carrawburgh

Carrawburgh is a settlement in Northumberland. In Roman times, it was the site of a 3+1⁄2-acre auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall called Brocolitia, Procolita, or Brocolita.…

Carrock Fell

Carrock Fell is a fell in the English Lake District, situated in the northern region of the national park, 8 miles north-east of Keswick. Carrock Fell is also the site of an Iron…

Castle Crag

Castle Crag is a hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District. The wooded height of Castle Crag rises between Broadslack Gill and the Derwent. The slopes of Castle…

Castle Hill, Huddersfield

Castle Hill is a scheduled ancient monument in Almondbury overlooking Huddersfield in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire. The hilltop has been settled for at…

Castle Naze

Castle Naze is an Iron Age promontory hillfort occupying a triangular spur of Combs Edge in the Derbyshire Peak District.

Castleshaw Roman Fort

Castleshaw Roman fort was a castellum in the Roman province of Britannia. The remains of the fort are located on Castle Hill on the eastern side of Castleshaw Valley at the foot…

Chillerton Down

Chillerton Down is downland between the villages of Shorwell and Chillerton, on the Isle of Wight. Across a spur of the hill running north-east to south-west, there are…

Chisbury

Chisbury Camp is a prehistoric hillfort in the civil parish of Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire, covering approximately 14 acres at 176 m above sea level. Palaeolithic, Neolithic and…

Cissbury Ring

Cissbury Ring is an 84.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Worthing in West Sussex. It is owned by the National Trust and is designated a Scheduled…

Clayhanger, Devon

Near the hamlet of Clayhanger in Devon lies the site of a Roman fort at Cudmore Farm, overlooking a tributary of the River Batherm. Considered the best-surviving Roman fort in…

Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire

Cleeve Hill, the highest point of the Cotswolds at 330 metres, hosts a small multivallate Iron Age hillfort dating from c. 500 BC. Human activity on Cleeve Common spans…

Cley Hill

Cley Hill is a prominent hill to the west of Warminster in Wiltshire, England. Its summit has a commanding view of the Wiltshire / Somerset county boundary, at 244 metres…

Compton Dundon

Dundon Hill Hillfort is a univallate Iron Age hillfort in Compton Dundon, Somerset, England, designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Situated overlooking the Somerset Levels,…

Derventio Brigantum

Derventio Brigantum was a Roman fort and settlement beneath the modern town of Malton in North Yorkshire, England, strategically positioned on the River Derwent about 29 km…

Derventio Coritanorum

Derventio was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today the area is known as Little Chester, on the outskirts of Derby, located in the English county of Derbyshire.…

Dewerstone

Dewerstone is the site of an Iron Age Hill fort on a rocky promontory overlooking the River Plym on the South West edge of Dartmoor to the North of Plympton in Devon. The fort…

Dodman Point

Dodman Point near Mevagissey is the highest headland on the south Cornwall coast, measuring 374 feet. It is also known by its earlier names of the Deadman and Deadman's Point. It…

Ebsbury

The site of Ebsbury, in Wiltshire, England, includes the remains of an Iron Age enclosed settlement, field system and possible hill fort, and a Romano-British enclosed settlement.…

Eggardon Hill

Eggardon Hill is a prehistoric hillfort on a hill in Dorset. It is located on chalk uplands approximately four miles to the east of the town of Bridport. The earliest…

Embury Beacon

Embury Beacon is an Iron Age promontory fort on the Hartland Peninsula in north Devon, perched on west-facing cliffs at approximately 150 metres above sea level. The fort has…

Eston Nab

A nab is a rocky promontory, and Eston Nab, marking the highest point – at 242 metres – on the escarpment which forms Eston Hills, appears as a clear sandstone cliff on the…

Fin Cop

Fin Cop is a hill and an associated Iron Age hill fort in Monsal Dale, close to Ashford in the Water in Derbyshire, England. The fort shows evidence of hurried construction,…

Frankenbury Camp

Frankenbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Hampshire. The site is on a very slight promontory overlooking the Avon Valley on the north-western edge…

Hamble Common Camp

Hamble Common is a Public Park, Public Common and Scheduled Monument in Hamble-le-Rice, Hampshire, not too far from Southampton. The site has a 'Linear bank' as well as a ditch,…

Ham Hill, Somerset

Ham Hill is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest, Scheduled Ancient Monument, Iron Age hill fort, Roman site, Local Nature Reserve and country park, to the west of…

Hexton

Ravensburgh Castle at Hexton is the largest Iron Age hillfort in the Chilterns, covering 22 acres including its defences. The site saw three construction phases from the Early…

High Peak, Devon

High Peak is a hill which is partially eroded, resulting in a cliff face, on the English Channel coast to the southwest of Sidmouth, Devon, southern England. Its highest point is…

Hillsborough, Devon

Hillsborough is a local nature reserve in Ilfracombe, North Devon, known locally as the 'sleeping elephant'. The site contains the remains of an Iron Age hill fort. Purchased by…

Holbury, Holbeton

Holbury is an Iron Age hill fort situated close to Holbeton in Devon, England. The fort is situated on a hilltop east of the village approximately 95 metres (310 ft) above sea…

Hollybush Hill

Hollybush Hill (242 m elevation) is an Iron Age hill fort in the Malvern Hills on the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border, east of Midsummer Hill. The site is a Scheduled Ancient…

Holmbury Hill

Holmbury Hill is a wooded area of 261 metres above sea level in Surrey, England, and the site of an Iron Age-period hillfort. The fort was defended by two layers of ramparts to…

Humbleton Hill

A hill near Wooler in Northumberland, England, containing an enclosed prehistoric settlement and Iron Age hillfort on its summit. The site features two stone-built ramparts with…

Hunter's Tor, Lustleigh Cleave

Hunter's Tor is a granite tor located in the parish of Lustleigh, on Dartmoor. It is one of two tors with the same name, the other being in the Teign Gorge. Hunter's Tor is in the…

Jenny's Lantern

Situated on the southern slope of the Jenny's Lantern area is an Iron Age hillfort. The Jenny's Lantern area is a small south-facing hill or promontory rising to 144 metres above…

Kelsey Head

Kelsey Head is a coastal Site of Special Scientific Interest and headland in north Cornwall, England. The site contains an Iron Age hill fort. The headland is the site of…

Kentisbury Down

Kentisbury Down is an Iron Age univallate hill-slope enclosure on the edge of Exmoor in Devon, England, close to Blackmore Gate. Situated on the southeast slope of the down at…

Killerton

Dolbury Hillfort at Killerton is an Iron Age enclosure dating to c. 600 BC, situated on a 120 m hilltop overlooking the River Culm in Broadclyst, Devon. The Scheduled Monument…

Ladle Hill

Ladle Hill is perhaps the best known of all of the unfinished hillforts in Britain. It was first correctly identified as an unfinished hillfort and described in detail by the…

Lagentium

Lagentium or Legiolum was the Roman name for the fort and surrounding civilian settlement which was built around the year 74 by the Roman Empire. The English town of Castleford,…

Lee Wood

Lee Wood is the location of an Iron Age enclosure or hill fort situated near to Braunton and Barnstaple in Devon. The enclosure is situated on a sloping hillside forming a…

Lewesdon Hill

Lewesdon Hill is a hill near Broadwindsor in west Dorset. With a maximum elevation of 279 m, it is the highest point in Dorset. However Lewesdon's status as a hillfort is…

Lockerley Camp

Lockerley Camp is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Hampshire. Situated on a low gravel-capped plateau, it covers approximately 5 acres and is now much…

Mam Tor

Mam Tor is a 517-metre hill near Castleton in Derbyshire, England, crowned by a Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age hillfort dating to 1200-500 BC. The univallate fort encloses…

Martinhoe

The Beacon Roman Fortlet at Martinhoe sits on a cliff top overlooking Heddon's Mouth on Devon's north coast, within Exmoor National Park. Occupied for roughly 10-20 years between…

Midsummer Hill

Midsummer Hill is an Iron Age hill fort situated in the Malvern Hills, a range extending approximately 13 km north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border. The fort…

Milecastles - Hadrian's Wall

Milecastles were 80 small rectangular forts placed at intervals of one Roman mile along Hadrian's Wall, built from AD 122 onward. Each measured approximately 15-18m by 17-23m…

Milefortlet - Hadrians Wall

Milefortlets were small Roman forts extending Hadrian's Wall defensive system along the Cumbrian coast from Bowness-on-Solway southward for at least 27 miles. Unlike milecastles…

Mockham Down

Mockham Down is the site of an Iron Age hill fort close to Brayfordhill in Devon, England. It takes the form of a multi-ditch and rampart enclosure close to the top of the hill…

Moridunum, Axminster

Moridunum was a Roman fort and small town in Britannia, located at Woodbury Farm south of Axminster, Devon, England. The square fort was built in the 2nd century AD at the…

Mowsbury Hill

Mowsbury Hill is a 2.8 hectare Local Nature Reserve and Scheduled Monument in north Bedford. Archaeological excavation has shown that the site is a univallate hillfort, and…

Myrtlebury

Myrtlebury is an Iron Age enclosure or 'spur' hill fort situated close to Lynmouth in Devon. The fort is effectively the northeast of a hillside forming a spur or promontory above…

Newberry Castle

An Iron Age hillfort near Combe Martin in North Devon, England, situated on the northeastern shoulder of Newberry Hill at 110 m elevation.

Papcastle

Papcastle was the site of Derventio, a Roman fort in what is now Cumbria, England. Initially built in timber, it was reconstructed in stone. Excavations from 2010-2015 revealed…

Peppercombe Castle

Peppercombe is a small valley on the north-western coast of Devon, England. Peppercombe Castle is an Iron Age Hill fort situated on the cliffs immediately to the west of the…

Pilsdon Pen

Pilsdon Pen is a 277-metre hill in Dorset in South West England, situated at the north end of the Marshwood Vale, approximately 4.5 miles west of Beaminster. The hill is a lower…

Pomeroy Wood

Pomeroy Wood is the site located near Honiton in Devon of a Roman military site of unknown type, probably either a fort or a marching camp, though archaeological investigations…

Poundbury Hill

Poundbury Hill in Dorset, England, is a multi-period archaeological site spanning Neolithic to Roman times. It features a substantial Bronze Age occupation site and an Iron Age…

Rame Head

Rame Head or Ram Head is a coastal headland, southwest of the village of Rame in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is part of the larger Rame Peninsula. The natural…

Roulston Scar, Sutton Bank

Roulston Scar is a major Iron Age hillfort located on Sutton Bank, a prominent hill in the Hambleton Hills of North Yorkshire, England. This massive prehistoric earthwork…

Scholes Coppice

Scholes Coppice is an area of ancient woodland northwest of Kimberworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It was once part of the Kimberworth…

Seaton Down

Seaton Down is an Iron Age promontory hill fort in Devon, England, situated approximately 125 metres above sea level. The fort features a large linear rampart cutting off a…

Shipton Hill Settlement

The Shipton Hill Settlement is an archaeological site, a defended settlement of the Iron Age, near Shipton Gorge in Dorset. The site is regarded as a defended settlement, a rare…

St Dennis, Cornwall

St Dennis in Cornwall sits on a strikingly conical hill that was formerly an Iron Age bivallate hillfort with an internal diameter of about 230 feet. The inner rampart was…

Stockland Castle

Stockland Castle is the name given to two Iron Age hill forts on Stockland Hill close to Stockland, Devon. Stockland Great Castle occupies a position on the eastern slope of the…

Sturminster Newton Castle

Sturminster Newton Castle is an Iron Age promontory fort reused as a medieval manorial site, located on a triangular limestone spur above the River Stour in Dorset, England. The…

The Wrekin

The Wrekin is a hill in east Shropshire, England. It is located some five miles west of Telford. Rising above the Shropshire Plain to a height of 407 metres above sea level, it is…

Trevelgue Head

Trevelgue Head, also known as Porth Island, is a headland north-east of Newquay, Cornwall, England. It is the site of an Iron Age promontory fort with defensive ramparts and two…

Waddon Hill

Waddon Hill is a hill and the site of a short-lived Roman fort near Beaminster, in the English county of Dorset. The name Waddon is from the Old English, meaning wheat hill. The…

Walbury Hill

Walbury Hill is a summit of the North Wessex Downs in Berkshire. With an elevation of 297 metres, it is the highest natural point in South East England. On the hill's summit is…

Wandlebury Hill

Wandlebury Hill is a peak in the Gog Magog Hills, a ridge of low chalk hills extending for several miles to the southeast of Cambridge. Wandlebury was already inhabited in the…

Warbstow Bury

Warbstow Bury is an Iron Age hillfort about 0.5 miles west of the village of Warbstow, in Cornwall. The site is 807 feet above sea level, on a hill at the heads of two tributaries…

Windbury Head

Windbury Head is the site of an Iron Age hill fort on the Hartland Peninsula in North Devon, England. Most of the site has been lost to coastal erosion. Only the southern ramparts…

Wind Hill

Wind Hill, situated close to Lynmouth in Devon, England, is the location of an Iron Age enclosure or "spur" hill fort. The site is effectively a hillside forming a spur or…

Wittenham Clumps

Wittenham Clumps are a pair of wooded chalk hills in the Thames Valley, in the civil parish of Little Wittenham, in the historic county of Berkshire, although since 1974…

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. The hill is the site of the Iron Age…

Yarrowbury

Yarrowbury is an Iron Age hill fort situated close to Bigbury in Devon, England. The fort is situated on Hilltop to the north east of the village at approximately 80 metres above…

Yeavering Bell

Yeavering Bell is a twin-peaked hill near the River Glen in north Northumberland, England, to the west of Wooler, and forming part of the Cheviot Hills. The summit, 1,158 feet…

Adam's Grave

Adam's Grave was a Neolithic long barrow near Alton Barnes in Wiltshire, southwest England. The barrow is considered to be of the Severn-Cotswold tomb type. These generally…

Addington Long Barrow

Addington Long Barrow is a chambered long barrow located near the village of Addington in the southeastern English county of Kent. Probably constructed in the fourth millennium…

Alderman's Barrow

Alderman's Barrow is a Bronze Age bowl barrow on Exmoor, England, serving as a burial chamber and later a boundary marker for the parishes of Exford, Exmoor, Luccombe, and…

Badshot Lea Long Barrow

Badshot Lea Long Barrow, also known as Farnham Long Barrow, was an unchambered long barrow located near the village of Badshot Lea in the south-eastern English county of Surrey.…

Ballowall Barrow

Ballowall Barrow is a prehistoric funerary cairn which Ashbee and Hencken state contains several phases of use from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. It is situated on the cliff…

Barrow Clump

Barrow Clump is an archaeological site in Figheldean parish, Wiltshire, England, about 3+1⁄2 miles north of the town of Amesbury. Barrow Clump lies on the northwestern slope of…

Battlegore Burial Chamber

Battlegore Burial Chamber is a Bronze Age burial chamber located in Williton, Somerset. It is composed of three round barrows and possibly a long, chambered barrow. The site was…

Belas Knap

Belas Knap is a Neolithic chambered long barrow on Cleeve Hill near Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, England, dating to approximately 3800 BC. The wedge-shaped mound stretches over…

Bosiliack Barrow

Bosiliack Barrow is a barrow on the Penwith Moors between Madron and Morvah near the hamlet of Bosiliack in Cornwall. The barrow is Neolithic and was excavated in 1984, causing…

Bow Hill, Sussex

Bow Hill is an elongated hill ridge, 206 metres high, and running roughly from north to south in the South Downs, in the county of West Sussex. Bow Hill is the highest point of…

Brane Barrow

Brane Barrow, or Chapel Euny Barrow, is a Neolithic entrance grave located near the hamlet of Brane, Cornwall, England. It is considered to be one of the smallest and best…

Brown Low

Brown Low is a bowl barrow most likely dating to the Bronze Age. An earth and stone mound survives east of Marple, Greater Manchester. It is listed as a Scheduled Ancient…

Bush Barrow

Bush Barrow is a site of the early British Bronze Age Wessex culture (c. 1950 BC), at the western end of the Normanton Down Barrows ancient cemetery in Wiltshire. It is among the…

Chestnuts Long Barrow

Chestnuts Long Barrow, also known as Stony Warren or Long Warren, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Addington in the south-eastern English county of Kent. The long…

Clandon Barrow

Clandon Barrow is a large Bronze Age barrow near Martinstown in Dorset, England, lying near Maiden Castle.

Coldrum Long Barrow

The Coldrum Long Barrow, also known as the Coldrum Stones and the Adscombe Stones, is a chambered long barrow located near the village of Trottiscliffe in the south-eastern…

Condolden

Condolden (Cornish: Goondollven) is a hill in north Cornwall, England. The summit is 308 metres above ordnance datum. Condolden is two miles (3 km) southeast of Tintagel village…

Crawley Edge Cairns

The Crawley Edge Cairns are a series of forty-two Bronze Age round barrows, cairns and clearance cairns located in a field in Crawleyside, near Stanhope, County Durham, England.…

Cursus Barrows

The Cursus Barrows is the name given to a Neolithic and Bronze Age round barrow cemetery lying mostly south of the western end of the Stonehenge Cursus, in Wiltshire. The cemetery…

Devil's Humps, Stoughton

The Devil's Humps are counted among the most impressive round barrows surviving on the South Downs. The four barrows forming the Devil's Humps are all aligned and stand 3 to 4…

Devil's Jumps, Treyford

The Devil's Jumps are a group of five large bell barrows situated on the South Downs 1.2 kilometres south-east of Treyford in the county of West Sussex in southern England. Most…

Duggleby Howe

Duggleby Howe is one of the largest round barrows in Britain, located on the southern side of the Great Wold Valley in the county of North Yorkshire, and is one of four such…

Fairy Toot

The Fairy Toot is an extensive oval barrow in the civil parish of Nempnett Thrubwell, Somerset. Fairy Toot was formerly a chambered cairn which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.…

Five Marys

The Five Marys is a group of Bronze Age round barrows near the village of Chaldon Herring, in Dorset, England. The barrows, on a west–east ridge overlooking Chaldon Herring to the…

Flowerdown Barrows

Flowerdown Barrows is a Bronze Age Barrow site near Littleton, Winchester, Hampshire. The site has three Bronze Age burial mounds in a much larger cemetery, two bowl barrows and a…

Goffers Knoll

Goffers Knoll is a prominent knoll on the Hertfordshire-Cambridgeshire border in the east of England, to the east of the town of Royston and south of Melbourn. Hidden within the…

Hastings Hill

The site was excavated in 1911, revealing a burial complex containing several cists—stone-lined chambers used for inhumations.

Hazleton Long Barrows

Hazleton long barrows are a pair of Neolithic chambered tombs located close to Hazleton village in Gloucestershire. Part of the Cotswold-Severn group of long barrows, the barrows…

Hob Hurst's House

Hob Hurst's House is a Bronze Age barrow on Beeley Moor near Bakewell in Derbyshire. The barrow is in the guardianship of English Heritage and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. It…

Jacket's Field Long Barrow

Jacket's Field Long Barrow is an unchambered long barrow located near to the village of Boughton Aluph in the south-eastern English county of Kent. It was probably constructed in…

Julliberrie's Grave

Julliberrie's Grave, also known as The Giant's Grave or The Grave, is an unchambered long barrow located near to the village of Chilham in the south-eastern English county of…

Kit Hill

Kit Hill, at 334 metres high, dominates the area between Callington and the River Tamar in southeast Cornwall, England. The word 'Kit' comes from Old English for kite, a reference…

Kit's Coty House

Kit's Coty House or Kit's Coty is a chambered long barrow near the village of Aylesford in the southeastern English county of Kent. Constructed circa 4000 BCE, during the Early…

Little Kit's Coty House

Little Kit's Coty House, also known as Lower Kit's Coty House and the Countless Stones, is a chambered long barrow located near to the village of Aylesford in the southeastern…

Long Burgh Long Barrow

Long Burgh is an unchambered Neolithic long barrow near Alfriston in East Sussex, constructed between approximately 3400 and 2400 BC. The mound measures 56 metres long, 28 metres…

Lugbury Long Barrow

Lugbury Long Barrow is a prehistoric long barrow in Wiltshire, England, about 0.6 miles east of Nettleton and about 1 mile north-west of Castle Combe. The monument is one of many…

Lyneham Long Barrow

Lyneham Longbarrow is a long barrow near Lyneham, Oxfordshire. Just nine metres from the barrow mound stands a 1.8-metre-tall standing stone. Lyneham barrow stands on a ridge…

Medway Megaliths

Medway Megaliths (4500-3000 BC) are a group of Early Neolithic chambered long barrows and megalithic monuments in the lower River Medway valley, Kent, southeast England.…

Normanton Down Barrows

Normanton Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age barrow cemetery located about 0.6 miles (1 km) south of Stonehenge in England. The site contains a Neolithic long barrow and…

Notgrove Long Barrow

Notgrove Long Barrow is a prehistoric long barrow burial mound in Gloucestershire, England. It consists of a large mound with a passage running through the centre and several…

Nympsfield Long Barrow

The Nympsfield Long Barrow is the remains of a Neolithic burial site or barrow, located close to the village of Nympsfield in Gloucestershire. It lies at the edge of a woods. It…

Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery

Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery is a group of Bronze Age round barrows on Cranborne Chase, about 1 mile east of the village of Sixpenny Handley in Dorset, England. The presence of Wor…

Obadiah's Barrow

Obadiah's Barrow or Obadiah's Grave is a Neolithic entrance grave located on the island of Gugh in the Isles of Scilly. The grave sits on a steep slope on the southwestern side of…

Overton Hill

Overton Hill is a 571 ft hill at the southern edge of the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire. It lies just west of the village of West Overton and about 4 miles west from the town of…

Pinnacle Hill

Archaeological investigations have identified two possible Bronze Age round barrows, though their exact age and function remain uncertain.

Ponton Heath Barrow Cemetery

The Ponton Heath Barrow Cemetery is a group of at least eleven Middle Bronze Age round barrows south of Grantham, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. Five of…

Preston Candover Long Barrow

Preston Candover Long Barrow is an unchambered long barrow located near to the village of Preston Candover in the south-eastern English county of Hampshire. The archaeologist Ian…

Priddy Nine Barrows and Ashen Hill Barrow Cemeteries

Priddy Nine Barrows and Ashen Hill are Bronze Age barrow cemeteries (c. 2000-700 BC) on the Mendip Hills in Somerset. Ashen Hill comprises six bowl barrows and two bell barrows…

Richmond Park

Richmond Park in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames contains rare prehistoric burial mounds now protected as scheduled monuments. King Henry VIII's Mound is likely a…

Rillaton Barrow

The Rillaton Barrow is a Bronze Age round barrow in Cornwall. The site is on the eastern flank of Bodmin Moor in the parish of Linkinhorne about four miles north of Liskeard.…

Ringlemere Barrow

The Ringlemere barrow is an archaeological site near Sandwich in the English county of Kent most famous as being the find site of the Ringlemere gold cup. No contemporary burials…

Robin Hood's Butts

Robin Hood's Butts are a group of nine Bronze Age barrows near Otterford on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. They have been scheduled as ancient monuments. The origin of the name…

Scutchamer Knob

Scutchamer Knob, also known as Cuckhamsley Hill and occasionally as Scotsman's Knob or Beacon Hill, is an early Iron Age round barrow on the Ridgeway National Trail at East…

Seven Barrows

Seven Barrows is a Bronze Age barrow cemetery located at Upper Lambourn in the civil parish of Lambourn, Berkshire, England. The site is designated as a biological Site of Special…

Shrub's Wood Long Barrow

Shrub's Wood Long Barrow is an unchambered long barrow located near to the village of Elmsted in the south-eastern English county of Kent. It was probably constructed in the…

Six Hills

The Six Hills are a collection of Roman barrows situated alongside the old Great North Road on Six Hills Common in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. They are classed as a Scheduled…

South Street Barrow

The South Street barrow is a Neolithic long barrow in the English county of Wiltshire, near Beckhampton. It lies around 70 metres southeast of the cove of The Longstones and may…

Stoney Littleton Long Barrow

The Stoney Littleton Long Barrow is a Neolithic chambered tomb with multiple burial chambers, located near the village of Wellow in the English county of Somerset. It is an…

Sunningdale Barrow

Sunningdale Barrow is an archaeological site in Berkshire, England, comprising three Bronze Age round barrows. One bowl barrow is located near Sunningdale railway station, in an…

The Grey Mare and her Colts

The Grey Mare and her Colts is a megalithic chambered long barrow located near Abbotsbury in Dorset, England. It was built during the Early and Middle Neolithic periods (3400-2400…

Thickthorn Down Long Barrows

The Thickthorn Down Long Barrows are two Neolithic long barrows, near the village of Gussage St Michael in Dorset, England. They are near the south-western end of the Dorset…

Trink Hill

Trink Hill is a 212-metre-high hill that lies between the hamlets of Trink and Cripplesease, near to the village of Nancledra. A Round barrow exists at the summit, an OS Trig…

Uley Long Barrow

The Uley Long Barrow, also known locally as Hetty Pegler's Tump, is a Neolithic burial mound near the village of Uley, Gloucestershire. Although typically described as a long…

Wayland's Smithy

Wayland's Smithy is an Early Neolithic chambered long barrow located near the village of Ashbury in the south-central English county of Oxfordshire. The barrow is believed to have…

West Kennet Long Barrow

The West Kennet Long Barrow, also known as South Long Barrow, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Built out of…

White Barrow

White Barrow is a large Neolithic long barrow just below the crest of Copehill Down on Salisbury Plain, just south of the village of Tilshead in Wiltshire. It is a scheduled…

White Sheet Hill

White Sheet Hill, also known as Whitesheet Hill, is a hill in the English county of Wiltshire. The hill is also the site of a Neolithic causeway camp and barrows; and an Iron Age…

Windmill Tump

Windmill Tump, also known as Rodmarton Chambered Tomb, is a Neolithic burial site, a stone tumulus or barrow. It is a mound covering the site of graves, in the form of a cairn,…

Wor Barrow

Wor Barrow is a Neolithic long barrow on Cranborne Chase, near Sixpenny Handley in Dorset. Excavated by Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1893-94, it was the first Neolithic long barrow…

Abingdon - Causewayed Enclosure

Abingdon - Causewayed Enclosure is a Neolithic earthwork in England. Animal remains, flint implements and pottery sherds were discovered in April 1926. The site was excavated by…

Aves Ditch

Aves Ditch is an Iron Age ditch and bank structure running about 3 miles on a northeast to southwest alignment in the Cherwell District of Oxfordshire. It was once believed to…

Bartinney Castle

Bartinney Castle is an Iron Age enclosure located in the Penwith Peninsula of Southwest Cornwall, England, surrounded by a circular earthwork on a hilltop. The site is surrounded…

Beech Bottom Dyke

Beech Bottom Dyke, is a large ditch running for almost a mile at the northern edge of St Albans, Hertfordshire, flanked by banks on both sides. It is up to 30 m wide, and 10 m…

Belbury Castle

Belbury Castle is the name given to an Iron Age earthwork, probably a hill fort or livestock enclosure, close to Ottery St Mary in Devon. The earthwork is on part of a hilltop at…

Berry Castle, Black Dog

Berry Castle is an earthwork probably dating to the Iron Age close to Black Dog in Devon north of Crediton and west of Tiverton. It does not fit the traditional pattern of an Iron…

Bindon Hill

Bindon Hill is an extensive Iron Age earthwork, enclosing a coastal hill area on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth Cove in Dorset. It is about 19 kilometres west of Swanage, about…

Blackdown Rings

An Iron Age hillfort near the hamlet of Hazelwood in Devon, occupying a roughly oval area of approximately 2.4 hectares on a hilltop 185 m above sea level, commanding the River…

Bokerley Dyke

Bokerley Dyke, Bokerly Dyke, Bokerley Ditch, is a linear earthwork 5.75 kilometres long on Cranborne Chase in Dorset, partially running along the county's border with Hampshire…

Boringdon Camp

Boringdon Camp is an English Iron Age and Roman earthwork in Cann Woods, near Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. The site is on a hilltop at 140 metres above sea level, with views down…

Brewer's Castle

Brewer's Castle is an Iron Age defended settlement in the Exmoor region of Somerset, situated on a steep, flat-topped knoll at the eastern end of Hawkridge Ridge Wood in the lower…

Broadbury Castle

Broadbury Castle is an archaeological earthwork close to Beaworthy in Devon, England. The site comprises a single bank and ditch which enclose an almost square piece of ground…

Broomfield Camp

Broomfield Camp (which is also known as Higher Castles enclosure) is a univallate Iron Age hill fort in the Taunton Deane district of Somerset. The hill fort is situated…

Caer Mote

Caer Mote is a hill of 289 metres (948 ft) in the north of the English Lake District near Bothel, Cumbria. Its summit lies just outside the boundary of the Lake District National…

Car Dyke

The Car Dyke is a long ditch which runs along the western edge of the Fens in eastern England for a distance of over 57 miles (92 km). It is generally accepted as being a Roman…

Castle Close

Castle Close is a circular earthwork located near Stoodleigh in Mid Devon. It is described on maps as a settlement. Situated some 208 metres above sea level, overlooking the River…

Castle Goff

Castle Goff is an enclosure about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-west of Camelford, in Cornwall. It is a scheduled monument. Castle Goff is considered to be a "round": these are small…

Codford Circle

Codford Circle (also known as Wilsbury Ring, Woldsbury, and possibly Oldbury Camp) is a Neolithic hilltop enclosure or possible hillfort situated on the summit of Codford Hill, a…

Combe Hill, East Sussex

Combe Hill is a causewayed enclosure, near Eastbourne in East Sussex, on the northern edge of the South Downs. It consists of an inner circuit of ditches and banks, incomplete…

Combs Ditch

Combs Ditch (sometimes spelt Comb's Ditch or Combe Ditch) is a linear earthwork on Charlton Down in Dorset, England. The earthwork is a scheduled ancient monument. The earthwork…

Court Hill, Sussex

Court Hill is a causewayed enclosure in West Sussex. The site was identified as of possible archaeological interest in 1951, and was excavated in 1982 by Owen Bedwin. It was…

Cranmore Castle

Cranmore Castle is an Iron Age earthwork situated on a hillside above the Devon town of Tiverton in south-west England. The earthwork is also unusual in that the area it encloses…

Dead Woman's Ditch

Dead Woman's Ditch is an earthwork which has been scheduled as an ancient monument in Over Stowey, Somerset, England situated on the Quantock Hills. The earthwork is presumed to…

Devil's Dyke, Hertfordshire

Devil's Dyke is the remains of a prehistoric defensive ditch which lies at the east side of the village of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire. It is protected as a Scheduled Monument.…

Dorset Cursus

The Dorset Cursus is a Neolithic cursus monument that spans across 10 km of the chalk downland of Cranborne Chase in east Dorset, United Kingdom. Its extreme length makes it a…

Dudsbury Camp

Dudsbury Camp (or Dudsbury Rings) is one of a series of Iron Age earthworks in Dorset, starting from Hambledon Hill, and including Hod Hill, Spetisbury Rings, Buzbury Rings,…

Featherwood Roman Camps

Featherwood Roman Camps are neighbouring archaeological sites in Northumberland, England, 1 mile north of Featherwood and about 3 miles east of Byrness. The remains of two Roman…

Figsbury Ring

Figsbury Ring is an 11.2 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England. The earthworks of Figsbury Ring are sub-circular and enclose 6.4 hectares of…

Flagstones Enclosure

Flagstones is a late Neolithic interrupted ditch enclosure (similar to a causewayed enclosure) on the outskirts of Dorchester, Dorset, England. It derives its name from having…

Fleam Dyke

Fleam Dyke is a linear earthwork between Fulbourn and Balsham in Cambridgeshire, initiated some time between AD 330 and AD 510. The dyke is located near Cambridge, between…

Goosehill Camp

Goosehill Camp is a prehistoric earthwork that dates back to the Iron Age. It consists of two concentric banks and ditches. Goosehill Camp is within the Kingley Vale National…

Grim's Ditch, Harrow

Grim's Ditch or Grim's Dyke or Grimes Dike is a linear earthwork in the London Borough of Harrow, in the historic county of Middlesex. The highest point of the earthwork is close…

Hembury

Hembury is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure and Iron Age hillfort near Honiton in Devon. Its history stretches from the late fifth and early fourth millennia BC to the Roman…

Highbury Hill, Clutton

Highbury Hill in Clutton, Somerset, England is the site of the earthwork remains of an Iron Age univallate hillfort. The 3 hectares site lies in an area of woodland at the south…

King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift

King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift is a 23.9 hectares biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which straddles the border between Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, and is…

Knap Hill

Knap Hill lies on the northern rim of the Vale of Pewsey, in northern Wiltshire, England, about a mile north of the village of Alton Priors. At the top of the hill is a causewayed…

Long Wood Enclosure

Long Wood Enclosure is an enclosure which may have been a univallate Iron Age hill fort in the county of Somerset. The enclosure is approximately 40 metres in diameter and covers…

Martin Down Enclosure

The Martin Down Enclosure is an archaeological site on Martin Down, near the village of Martin, in Hampshire. It is near the boundaries with Dorset and Wiltshire. The site is a…

Micheldever Wood

Micheldever Wood is a wood near the village of Micheldever, in Hampshire, England, about 5 miles north-east of Winchester. Archaeological features survive from the Bronze Age to…

Morgan's Hill Enclosure

Morgan's Hill Enclosure is a scheduled monument on Morgan's Hill southeast of Calne, Wiltshire, England, approximately 130 m north of the Wansdyke. The square earthwork, aligned…

Mounsey Castle

Mounsey Castle is an Iron Age irregular triangular earthwork of 1.75 hectares north west of Dulverton, Somerset. It has been scheduled as an ancient monument. The earthwork is…

New Ditch

New Ditch is a linear earthwork of possible Iron Age or Medieval construction, situated in woodlands on the Polden Hills approximately 1.8 km (1.1 mi) southwest of Butleigh in…

Offham Hill

Offham Hill is a causewayed enclosure near Lewes, East Sussex, England. The Ordnance Survey inspected the site in 1972 and recommended an excavation, which was carried out in 1976…

Ponter's Ball Dyke

Ponter's Ball Dyke is a linear earthwork located near Glastonbury in Somerset. It crosses, at right angles, an ancient road that continues on to the former island of dry land in…

Portingbury Hills

Portingbury Hills or Portingbury Rings is a hill in Hatfield Forest, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex. Archaeological excavations were carried out in 1964–1965, with recovered evidence…

Priddy Circles

Priddy Circles are a linear arrangement of four circular earthwork enclosures near the village of Priddy on the Mendip Hills in Somerset. The circles have been listed as Scheduled…

Raddon Top

Raddon Top is the highest point of the Raddon Hills, a small ridge of hills in the Shobrooke area of Mid Devon, England. The summit is at some 235 metres above sea level, making…

Raw Dykes

Raw Dykes is a Roman earthwork and scheduled monument in Leicester. The monument consists of two parallel banks up to 20 metres apart, with an excavated channel running between…

Road Castle

Road Castle is an Iron Age bank and ditch in the county of Somerset, England. The hill fort is situated approximately 2 miles west from the village of Winsford. The ditch is…

Roborough Castle

Roborough Castle is an Iron Age hill fort located near Lynton in Devon, England. The earthwork occupies a promontory on the north-eastern edge of a hillside, overlooking Hoaroak…

Rodhuish Common

A small oval earthwork enclosure on the steep southeast-facing slopes of Rodhuish Common in Somerset, England. The enclosure measures 31.7 m north-south by 28.3 m east-west,…

Roman Rig

The Roman Rig is the name given to a series of earthworks in the north of Rotherham, in South Yorkshire. They are believed to originally have formed a single dyke running from…

Stonehenge Cursus

The Stonehenge Cursus is a large Neolithic cursus monument on Salisbury plain, near to Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. Radiocarbon dating of a red deer antler pick discovered at…

The Warbanks

The Warbanks are ancient linear earthworks on the eastern boundary of Lawshall parish in Suffolk, extending into neighbouring Cockfield and Shimpling. Comprising two sections…

Trendle Ring

Trendle Ring (or Trundle Ring) is a late prehistoric earthwork on the Quantock Hills near Bicknoller in Somerset, England, and is a Scheduled Monument. Covering 0.8 hectares, it…

Walton Common

Walton Common is a 25.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Walton in Gordano, North Somerset. The site has two saucer-shaped round barrows…

Wat's Dyke

Wat's Dyke is a 40-mile (64 km) linear earthwork running through the northern Welsh Marches from Basingwerk Abbey on the River Dee estuary, passing east of Oswestry and on to…

Whitehawk Camp

Whitehawk Camp is the remains of a causewayed enclosure on Whitehawk Hill near Brighton, East Sussex, England. The Whitehawk site consists of four roughly concentric circular…

Wimble Toot

Wimble Toot is a burial mound or, possibly, a motte built near the village of Babcary, Somerset. It is a scheduled ancient monument with a list entry number of 1015279. Today the…

Windmill Hill, Avebury

Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile northwest of Avebury. Enclosing an area…

Yellowberries Copse

Yellowberries Copse was designated a scheduled monument in 2001. The site is enclosed by a rampart and ditch. The rampart survives to a maximum of 1.8 metres high, and varies…

Barbrook One

Barbrook One is a stone circle on Ramsley Moor in the Peak District. "Barbrook No. 1" is an embanked stone circle. It has one large standing stone (1 metre high) and 11 smaller…

Birkrigg Stone Circle

The Birkrigg stone circle is a Bronze Age stone circle on Birkrigg Common, two miles south of Ulverston in the English county of Cumbria. The circle consists of two rings of…

Boscawen-Un

Boscawen-Ûn is a Bronze Age stone circle close to St Buryan in Cornwall, UK. It consists of nineteen upright stones in an ellipse with another, leaning, middle stone just south of…

Boskednan Stone Circle

Boskednan stone circle is a partially restored prehistoric stone circle near Boskednan, around 4 miles northwest of the town of Penzance in Cornwall. The megalithic monument is…

Brisworthy Stone Circle

Brisworthy stone circle is a stone circle on Dartmoor, Devon. It is located three miles east of the A386, northeast of the village of Shaugh Prior. It is three hundred metres from…

Burnmoor Stone Circles

The Burnmoor Stone Circles are a group of five different approximately 4,000-year-old stone circles in Cumbria. They are around 1 mile north of the village of Boot, on the slopes…

Castlerigg Stone Circle

Castlerigg stone circle (alternatively Keswick Carles, or Carles) is situated on a prominent hill to the east of Keswick, in the Lake District National Park, North West England.…

Cheetham Close

Cheetham Close is a megalithic site and scheduled ancient monument located in Lancashire, very close to the boundary with Greater Manchester, England. The megalith was in good…

Craddock Moor Stone Circle

Craddock Moor Stone Circle or Craddock Moor Circle is a stone circle located near Minions on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. It is situated around half a mile Northwest of The Hurlers.…

Day House Lane Stone Circle

Day House Lane Stone Circle, also known as Coate Stone Circle, is a stone circle near the hamlet of Coate, now on the southeastern edge of Swindon, in the English county of…

Doll Tor

Doll Tor is a stone circle just west of Stanton Moor, near the village of Birchover, Derbyshire in the English East Midlands. Doll Tor is part of a tradition of stone circle…

Duddo Five Stones

The Duddo Five Stones is a stone circle north of Duddo in North Northumberland, approximately 4 miles South of the Scottish Border. The stones were known as the Four Stones until…

Duloe Stone Circle

Duloe stone circle or Duloe circle is a stone circle near the village of Duloe, located 5 miles from Looe in southeast Cornwall, England. Stones vary in height, the largest on the…

Emblance Downs Stone Circles

Emblance Downs stone circles are a pair of stone circles located in the parish of St. Breward on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. The two ruined stone circles are situated between King…

Falkner's Circle

Falkner's Circle was a stone circle near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Built from twelve sarsen megaliths, it measured about 37 metres…

Fernacre

Fernacre, also known as Fernacre stone circle or Fernacre circle, is a stone circle located on the slopes of the De Lank River, 1.25 miles northeast of St Breward on Bodmin Moor…

Fir Clump Stone Circle

Fir Clump Stone Circle was a stone circle in Burderop Wood near Wroughton, Wiltshire, in South West England. The ring was part of a tradition of stone circle construction that…

Gamelands Stone Circle

Gamelands stone circle (or Orton stone circle) is a stone circle at the foot of Knott Hill in Cumbria, England. Gamelands stone circle lies between the village of Orton and the…

Goodaver Stone Circle

Goodaver stone circle or Goodaver circle is a stone circle located in the parish of Altarnun, near Bolventor on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. The stones are generally rectangular and…

Grey Croft Stone Circle

Grey Croft stone circle is a restored stone circle near Seascale in Cumbria. Grey Croft stone circle is a circle of 12 stones situated south of the Sellafield nuclear site. Only…

Grey Wethers

Grey Wethers consists of a pair of prehistoric stone circles, situated on grassy plateau to the north of Postbridge, Dartmoor. The circles are each approximately 33 m in diameter,…

Grubstones

The Grubstones circle is located on Burley Moor. The circle is just over 800 metres south-east of the Twelve Apostles. The circle has a diameter of about 10 metres. It is almost…

Hampton Down Stone Circle

Positioned at the national grid reference 35960865, Hampton Down Stone Circle is located on the southern edge of an open downland ridge at a height of 680 feet above sea level. A…

Hoarstones

The Hoarstones, or Hoar Stone Circle, is a stone circle in the civil parish of Chirbury with Brompton in the English county of Shropshire. The Hoarstones are part of a tradition…

Hodson Stone Circle

Hodson Stone Circle was a stone circle in the village of Hodson in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. The ring was part of a tradition of stone circle construction…

Hordron Edge Stone Circle

Hordron Edge Stone Circle, also known as the Seven Stones of Hordron, is a Bronze Age stone circle on Moscar Moor in Derbyshire, England, overlooking the upper Derwent Valley. The…

Kingston Russell Stone Circle

Kingston Russell Stone Circle, also known as the Gorwell Circle, is a stone circle located between the villages of Abbotsbury and Littlebredy in the south-western English county…

Kinniside Stone Circle

Kinniside Stone Circle is a reconstructed stone circle in the civil parish of Ennerdale and Kinniside in Cumbria. Kinniside Stone Circle is situated next to the fell road from…

Leaze Stone Circle

Leaze stone circle is a stone circle located in the parish of St. Breward on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, UK. The circle stands in enclosed pasture near the buildings of Leaze farm…

Long Meg and Her Daughters

Long Meg and her Daughters lie on a terrace above water, immediately to the south of a ditched enclosure that runs round the present farm. This ditch seems to pre-date the circle…

Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle

Mitchell's Fold is a Bronze Age stone circle in southwest Shropshire at a height of 353 metres AOD. The stone circle, a standing stone, and a cairn comprise a Scheduled Ancient…

Nine Ladies Stone Circle

The Nine Ladies is a stone circle on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire in the English East Midlands. The Nine Ladies is part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread…

Nine Maidens Stone Circle

The Nine Maidens, also called the Seventeen Brothers, is a Bronze Age cairn circle on Belstone Common on northern Dartmoor, Devon, England. Local folklore claims the stones were…

Nine Stones, Altarnun

A Neolithic and Bronze Age stone circle on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, located 3 km south-southeast of Altarnun. The smallest stone circle on Bodmin Moor, it measures approximately…

Nine Stones Close

Nine Stones Close, also known as the Grey Ladies, is a stone circle on Harthill Moor in Derbyshire in the English East Midlands. The purpose of the monument is unknown. Nine…

Nine Stones, Winterbourne Abbas

The Nine Stones, also known as the Devil's Nine Stones, the Nine Ladies, or Lady Williams and her Dog, is a stone circle located near to the village of Winterbourne Abbas in the…

Oddendale Stone Circle

Oddendale Stone Circle is a Neolithic-to-Bronze Age concentric stone circle near Shap in Cumbria.

Porlock Stone Circle

Porlock Stone Circle is a stone circle on Exmoor near the village of Porlock in Somerset, England. Built during the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, it dates to between 3300…

Rempstone Stone Circle

Rempstone Stone Circle is a stone circle near to Corfe Castle on the Isle of Purbeck in the south-western English county of Dorset. Archaeologists believe that it was likely…

Scorhill Stone Circle

Notably, on Midsummer Eve the sun sets behind the tallest standing stone, suggesting possible astronomical alignment. The circle was spared Victorian restoration.

Snowden Crags

Snowden Crags is a prehistoric archaeological site on Askwith Moor in North Yorkshire. Local antiquarian Eric Cowling recorded a stone circle and a concentration of cairns at the…

Stannon Stone Circle

Stannon stone circle (also known as Stannon circle or simply Stannon) is a stone circle located near St. Breward on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England. The stones average size is…

Stanton Drew Stone Circles

The Stanton Drew stone circles are just outside the village of Stanton Drew in the English county of Somerset. The largest stone circle is the Great Circle, 113 metres in diameter…

Stripple Stones

The Stripple stones is a henge and stone circle located on the south slope of Hawk's Tor, Blisland, 10 kilometres north northeast of Bodmin on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England.…

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. The stone circle at Swinside is…

The Goatstones

The Goatstones is a Bronze-Age four-poster stone circle located near Ravensheugh Crags in Northumberland, England. It is 2.5 miles to the north of Hadrian's Wall in the parish of…

The Hurlers Stone Circles

The Hurlers (Cornish: An Hurlysi) is a group of three stone circles in the civil parish of St Cleer, Cornwall, England. The site is half-a-mile (0.8 km) west of the village of…

The Merry Maidens

The Merry Maidens, also known as Dawn's Men (a likely corruption of the Cornish Dons Men "Stone Dance") is a Late Neolithic stone circle located 2 miles to the south of the…

The Sanctuary

The Sanctuary was a stone and timber circle near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. The ring was part of a tradition of stone circle…

Threestoneburn Stone Circle

Threestoneburn Stone Circle is an archaeological site, a stone circle near the village of Ilderton and about 5 miles south of Wooler, in Northumberland, England. The circle, of…

Tregeseal East Stone Circle

The Tregeseal East stone circle is a heavily restored prehistoric stone circle around one mile northeast of the town of St Just in Cornwall. The 19 granite stones are also known…

Trippet Stones

The Trippet Stones is a Bronze Age stone circle on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. According to legend, the stones are petrified girls punished for dancing on the Sabbath. The nearby…

Twelve Apostles, West Yorkshire

The Twelve Apostles is a stone circle near Ilkley and Burley in Wharfedale in West Yorkshire, England. The stone circle is slightly below and to the northeast of an east-west…

Wet Withens

Wet Withens is a Bronze Age henge on Eyam Moor in the Derbyshire Peak District. On gritstone moorland over 300 metres above sea level, the site has clear views of the valley of…

Winterbourne Bassett Stone Circle

Knowledge of Winterbourne Bassett Stone Circle derives almost entirely from antiquarian sources. Stukeley recorded two concentric sarsen rings, with an outlying stone to the west…

Withypool Stone Circle

Withypool Stone Circle, also known as Withypool Hill Stone Circle, is a stone circle located on the Exmoor moorland, near the village of Withypool in the southwestern English…

Yellowmead Stone Circle

Yellowmead stone circle near Sheepstor in Devon is a Bronze Age concentric stone circle consisting of four rings of stones set within one another. The largest is 20 metres wide…

Ackling Dyke

Ackling Dyke is a section of Roman road in England which runs for 22 miles southwest from Old Sarum (Sorviodunum) to the hill fort at Badbury Rings (Vindocladia). Much of the road…

Akeman Street

Akeman Street is a Roman road in southern England between the modern counties of Hertfordshire and Gloucestershire. It is approximately 117 kilometres long and runs roughly…

Batham Gate

Batham Gate is the medieval name for a Roman road in Derbyshire which ran south-west from Templebrough on the River Don in South Yorkshire to Brough-on-Noe and the spa town of…

Beckhampton Avenue

The Beckhampton Avenue was a curving prehistoric avenue of stones that ran broadly south west from Avebury towards The Longstones at Beckhampton in the English county of…

Cade's Road

Cade's Road is a Roman Road in north-east England. It is named after John Cade of Durham, an 18th-century antiquarian who in 1785 proposed its existence and possible course from…

Camlet Way

Camlet Way was a Roman road in England which ran roughly east–west between Colchester (Camulodunum) in Essex and Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) in Hampshire via St Albans…

Chichester to Silchester Way

The Chichester to Silchester Way is a Roman Road between Chichester in South-East England, which as Noviomagus was capital of the Regni, and Silchester or Calleva Atrebatum,…

Derbyshire Portway

The Derbyshire Portway is a prehistoric trackway running approximately 49 miles (79 km) across the Peak District, from Stapleford Hill near Nottingham to Mam Tor in north…

Dere Street

Dere Street or Deere Street is a modern designation of a Roman road which ran north from Eboracum (York), crossing the Stanegate at Corbridge (Hadrian's Wall was crossed at the…

Devil's Causeway

The Devil's Causeway is a Roman road in Northumberland, North East England. It branches off Dere Street north of Corbridge and extends approximately 55 miles (89 km) north to…

Devil's Highway - Roman Britain

The Devil's Highway was a Roman road built during the winter of AD 47-48, connecting Londinium (London) to Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) via Pontes (Staines). Measuring 7.5-8.7…

Doctor's Gate

Doctor's Gate is a Roman road in the Derbyshire Peak District of England, which ran between Melandra fort at Glossop and Navio fort at Brough-on-Noe. Doctor's Gate was recorded in…

Ermin Way

Ermin Street or Ermin Way was a Roman road in Britain. It linked Glevum (Gloucester) and Corinium (Cirencester) to Calleva (Silchester). At Glevum it connected to the road to Isca…

Fen Causeway

Fen Causeway or the Fen Road is the modern name for a Roman road of England that runs between Denver, Norfolk in the east and Peterborough in the west. Its path covers 24 miles,…

Flag Fen

Flag Fen is a Bronze Age site in England constructed around 3,500 years ago, consisting of more than 60,000 timbers arranged in five long rows to create a wooden causeway across…

Fosse Way

For the first few decades after the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD, the Fosse Way marked the western frontier of Roman rule in Iron Age Britain. The road joined Akeman Street…

Greater Ridgeway

The Greater Ridgeway is an ancient trackway crossing southern England from Dorset to Norfolk, following chalk upland routes used since prehistory. During Roman Britain (1–500 AD),…

Hadrian's Wall Path

Hadrian's Wall Path is a long-distance footpath in the north of England, which became the 15th National Trail in 2003. It runs for 84 miles, from Wallsend on the east coast of…

Harrow Way

The Harrow Way is another name for the "Old Way", an ancient trackway in the south of England, dated by archaeological finds to 600–450 BC, but probably in existence since the…

Hatfield Neolithic Trackway

The Hatfield Neolithic Trackway (Lindholme Trackway) was discovered in 2004, and is one of the oldest known ancient timber trackways in England. The trackway is the second…

High Street, Lake District

High Street is a fell in the English Lake District. The fell is named after the Roman road that ran over the summit. A Roman road, a scheduled monument, crosses the fell between…

Icknield Street

A Roman road in England running southwest to northeast from Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire to Templeborough in South Yorkshire, passing through Birmingham, Lichfield, and…

Icknield Way

The Icknield Way is an ancient trackway in southern England running from Norfolk to Wiltshire along the chalk escarpment of the Berkshire Downs and Chiltern Hills. It is…

Kennet Avenue

Kennet Avenue or West Kennet Avenue is a prehistoric site in the English county of Wiltshire. It was originally an avenue of two parallel lines of stones 25m wide and 2.5 km in…

London to Lewes Way

The London to Lewes Way is a 71 km (44 mi) Roman road built in the 1st century AD, connecting Watling Street at Peckham to Lewes in Sussex. The route passes through Beckenham and…

Maiden Way

The Maiden Way or Maidenway was a roughly 20-mile Roman road in northern Britain connecting the Roman fort of Bravoniacum (Kirkby Thore) near Penrith with that of Magnis…

Military Way - Hadrian's Wall

The Military Way is a Roman road built directly south of Hadrian's Wall.

Peddars Way

The Peddars Way is a long distance footpath that passes through Suffolk and Norfolk, England. The Peddars Way is 46 miles long and follows the route of a Roman road. The…

Pilgrims' Way

The Pilgrims' Way is the historical route supposedly taken by pilgrims from Winchester in Hampshire, England, to the shrine of Thomas Becket at Canterbury in Kent. This name, of…

Port Way

The Port Way (or Portway) is a 58 km ancient road in southern England connecting Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) to Sorbiodunum (Old Sarum), possibly predating the Roman…

Post Track

The Post Track is an ancient causeway in the valley of the River Brue on the Somerset Levels. It is dated back to around 3838 BCE, making it some 30 years older than the Sweet…

Pye Road

Pye Road is a Roman road running from the capital of the Iceni at Venta Icenorum to the original Roman provincial capital and legionary base at Camulodunum. The road was later…

Roman Ridge

Roman Ridge is a bridleway that was part of the Roman road of Ermine Street, between Scawsby and Redhouse to the north of Doncaster. This footpath departs from the A638 road at…

Roman Road from Silchester to Bath

The Roman road from Silchester to Bath connected Calleva Atrebatum with Aquae Sulis via Spinae, Cunetio and Verlucio. The road was a significant route for east–west travel and…

Ruthergate

Ruthergate is a disused Roman-era road near Guisborough in North Yorkshire, England. The ancient trackway leads south from Ruther Cross on Hutton Lane, ascending Kemplah Hill via…

Rykeneld Street

Rykeneld Street or Ryknield Street was a Roman road which ran through the northern Midlands of England from Deva (Chester) to Derventio (Derby) via what is now Stoke-on-Trent. The…

Shap Stone Avenue

Shap Stone Avenue sits near the centre of the Eden Valley, Cumbria. It is broadly grouped into a category of monuments dubbed by Aubrey Burl, as 'Cumbrian Circles': large,…

Stanegate

The Stanegate (meaning "stone road" in Northumbrian dialect) was an important Roman road and early frontier built in what is now northern England. It linked many forts including…

Stane Street, Chichester

Stane Street is the modern name of the 91 km-long Roman road in southern England that linked Londinium (London) to Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester). The exact date of…

Stane Street, Colchester

Stane Street is a 39-mile (63 km) Roman road that connected Ermine Street at Braughing, Hertfordshire to Camulodunum (Colchester), Essex.

Stonehenge Avenue

Stonehenge Avenue is an ancient avenue on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site. Discovered in…

Sussex Greensand Way

The Sussex Greensand Way is a Roman road that runs east-west linking the London to Lewes Way at Barcombe Mills to Stane Street at Hardham. The road, which has almost entirely…

Sweet Track

The Sweet Track is an ancient trackway, or causeway, in the Somerset Levels, England, named after its finder, Ray Sweet. The Sweet Track was predominantly built along the course…

The Long Lane, Derbyshire

The Long Lane is the medieval and modern name for a Roman road that ran almost due west from Derventio, the Roman fort and vicus in the suburbs of modern Derby, through Derbyshire…

The Ridgeway

The Ridgeway is a ridgeway or ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road. The section clearly identified as an ancient trackway extends from Wiltshire along the chalk…

The Street, Derbyshire

The Street is the medieval name of the Roman road that crossed the high limestone plateau of central Derbyshire from the spa town of Buxton (Aquae Arnemetiae) southeast toward…

Via Devana

The road linked major Roman military centres. Its name derives from Chester's Latin name Deva, meaning "The Chester Road." Following the Roman withdrawal from Britain in 407 AD,…

Wade's Causeway

Wade's Causeway is a Roman road, or possibly a Neolithic structure, located in the North York Moors national park in North Yorkshire, England. The structure has been the subject…

Watling Street

Watling Street is a historic route in England running from Dover and London in the southeast, via St Albans to Wroxeter. The road crosses the River Thames at London and was used…

Welsh Road

The Welsh Road, also known as the Welshman's Road or the Bullock Road, was a drover's road running through the English Midlands, used for transporting cattle from North Wales to…

Welsh Way

The Welsh Way was a British Iron Age trade route and track-way that originally carried trade between South Wales and the Oxford area of England across the Cotswold Hills. There is…

Aiskew Roman Villa

Aiskew Roman villa is a Roman villa in Aiskew, North Yorkshire. It was identified by geophysical survey in July 2013 and partly excavated between November 2014 and February 2015.…

Apethorpe Roman Villa

(1st–5th c. AD) Apethorpe Roman Villa located in Northamptonshire, England, represents a Roman-era rural settlement. The site lies near the village of Apethorpe, 17 km west of…

Ashley, Northamptonshire

An Iron Age and Romano-British settlement near the River Welland in North Northamptonshire, close to the Roman road Via Devana linking Leicester to Cambridge. Excavations in…

Beadlam Roman Villa

Beadlam Roman villa is a Roman villa on the east bank of the River Riccal in North Yorkshire, England. It is in the district of Ryedale between Helmsley and the village of…

Bignor Roman Villa

Bignor Roman Villa is a large Roman courtyard villa which has been excavated and put on public display on the Bignor estate in the English county of West Sussex. It is well known…

Borough Hill Roman Villa

Borough Hill Roman villa is located on the north tip of Borough Hill, a prominent hill near the town of Daventry in Northamptonshire. The villa’s remains lie within the ramparts…

Brading Roman Villa

Brading Roman Villa was a Roman courtyard villa which has been excavated and put on public display in Brading on the Isle of Wight. In 1879, a farmer called Mr Munns struck a…

Brantingham Roman Villa

Brantingham Roman villa is a Roman villa, now a scheduled monument, near Brantingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The villa would have been closely associated with the…

Brighstone

Brighstone is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, 6 miles southwest of Newport on the B3399 road. Previously known as "Brixton," the name derives from Old English…

Bucknowle Roman Villa

Bucknowle Roman villa is a Roman villa in Dorset. The first villa was constructed on the site during the late 1st century AD. A large aisled hall and a possible bath house were…

Carsington Roman Villa

The Carsington Roman Villa is a Roman villa at Scow Brook, Carsington near Wirksworth, Derbyshire. The site of the villa is currently submerged under the Carsington Water…

Chedworth Roman Villa

Chedworth Roman Villa is located near Chedworth, Gloucestershire, England and is a scheduled monument. It is one of the largest and most elaborate Roman villas so far discovered…

Cosgrove, Northamptonshire

Cosgrove is a village in Northamptonshire notable for an extensive Roman villa, bath house, and temple complex south-east of Cosgrove Hall. Discovered in 1957 when Roman pottery…

Crofton Roman Villa

Crofton Roman Villa in Crofton, Orpington, in the London Borough of Bromley, is a Roman villa which was inhabited between approximately 140 and 400 AD. It was the centre of a…

Dalton Parlours Roman Villa

Dalton Parlours Roman villa is a Roman villa and scheduled monument near Collingham, West Yorkshire. The site was discovered in 1854 on land owned by the Lady Elizabeth Hastings…

Eccles Roman Villa

Eccles Roman Villa is a 1st–4th century AD residence in Kent, England. Excavated between 1962 and 1976, the villa reached 112 metres in length during the 2nd century, making it…

Fishbourne Roman Palace

Fishbourne Roman Palace or Fishbourne Villa is in the village of Fishbourne, near Chichester in West Sussex. Extensive alterations were made in the second and third centuries AD,…

Folkestone Roman Villa

Folkestone Roman Villa, also referred to as the East Bay Site, is a villa built during the Roman Occupation of Britain, and is located in East Wear Bay near the port town of…

Gayton Thorpe Roman Villa

Gayton Thorpe Roman Villa is the site of a Roman villa, near Gayton Thorpe and about 5 miles (8 km) east of King's Lynn, in Norfolk, England. It was discovered in 1906 and first…

Great Witcombe Roman Villa

Great Witcombe Roman Villa was a villa built during the Roman occupation of Britain. It is located on a hillside at Great Witcombe, near Gloucester in the English county of…

Horkstow Roman Villa

Horkstow Roman villa is a Roman villa and scheduled monument in Horkstow, North Lincolnshire. It was discovered in 1797 when labourers found a large floor mosaic. A geophysical…

Howick House

The Howick house is a Mesolithic site located in Northumberland, England. It was found when an amateur archaeologist noticed flint tools eroding out of a sandy cliff face near the…

Keston Roman Villa

The Keston Roman villa is an archaeological site in the London Borough of Bromley, originating from an Iron Age settlement that developed into a Roman villa complex. Excavated…

Kings Weston Roman Villa

Kings Weston Roman Villa is located in Lawrence Weston in the north-west of Bristol. The ruins of the Roman villa are a Scheduled Monument that represents a winged corridor design…

Littlecote Roman Villa

Littlecote Roman Villa is an extensive and exceptional Roman villa, with associated religious complex, at Littlecote Park just over a mile west of Hungerford, Berkshire. In…

Lopen Roman Mosaic

The Lopen Roman Mosaic is a Roman mosaic, probably from a Roman villa, in the village of Lopen, Somerset, England. Photogrammetry by English Heritage was followed by excavation…

Lullingstone Roman Villa

Lullingstone Roman Villa is a villa built during the Roman occupation of Britain, situated in Lullingstone near the village of Eynsford in Kent. The villa is located in the Darent…

Nether Heyford

Site of a Romano-British villa estate at Whitehall Farm in West Northamptonshire, near the Roman road Watling Street (modern A5). Discovered by metal detectorists in 1996,…

Newport Roman Villa

Newport Roman Villa was a Romano-British farmhouse constructed in 280 AD. It is located near to Newport, Isle of Wight. Newport Roman Villa was unearthed in 1926 when garage…

North Leigh Roman Villa

North Leigh Roman Villa was a Roman courtyard villa in the Evenlode Valley about 0.5 miles north of the hamlet of East End in North Leigh civil parish in Oxfordshire. Excavations…

Piddington Roman Villa

Piddington Roman Villa is the remains of a large Roman villa at Piddington, Northamptonshire, about 6 miles south-east of Northampton. The villa is on the site of an earlier late…

Rockbourne Roman Villa

Rockbourne Roman villa is located at West Park, near the village of Rockbourne in Hampshire. The villa was discovered in 1942 by a farmer digging out a ferret. Originally the site…

Roman Town House, Dorchester

The Roman Town House in Dorchester is a Roman ruin within Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset, England. Dorset County Council acquired Colliton Park in 1933 as the site for the…

Rudston Roman Villa

A 3rd-4th century AD courtyard villa near Rudston in East Riding of Yorkshire, first excavated in 1839. Notable for outstanding mosaics including the Venus Mosaic (discovered…

Rutland Roman Villa

The Rutland Roman villa is a Romano-British villa site near Ketton in Rutland, England. The villa includes the first example of a Roman mosaic in Britain which depicts scenes from…

Sparsholt Roman Villa

Sparsholt Roman Villa was a Roman villa near the village of Sparsholt, Hampshire, England. It was constructed in phases from the 2nd to the 5th century, and then abandoned. It was…

Spoonley Wood Roman Villa

Spoonley Wood Roman Villa is an ancient Roman villa located 2 km south-east of Sudeley Castle near the town of Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire, England. It was a courtyard-type…

St Laurence School - Roman Villa

St Laurence School - Roman Villa is an archaeological site in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England. Minor excavations in 1976 revealed the presence of a Roman villa beneath the…

Totternhoe Roman Villa

Totternhoe Roman villa is on Church Farm, Church Road, in Totternhoe, Bedfordshire. The villa was excavated by the Manshead Archaeological Society under the direction of C. L.…

Whirlow Hall Farm

Whirlow Hall Farm is a working farm on Broad Elms Lane at Whirlow in Sheffield, England. Since 1979 it has hosted the Whirlow Hall Farm Trust, a charity enabling children and…

Winterton Roman Villa

Winterton Roman villa is a Roman villa in Winterton, North Lincolnshire. It was discovered in 1747. The villa was built in the 2nd century AD and reconstructed in the 4th century.…

Woodchester Roman Villa

Woodchester Roman Villa was situated at Woodchester near Stroud in the English county of Gloucestershire. It is one of many Roman villas discovered in Gloucestershire and was…

Almsworthy Common

Almsworthy Common is an area of unenclosed moorland on Exmoor in southwestern England. The site features a multiple stone row of at least 29.8 m with 15 stones in four rows…

Altar Stone - Stonehenge

The Altar Stone (Stone 80) is a recumbent megalith at the center of Stonehenge, dating to around 2600 BC. A 2024 study published in Nature revealed that this six-ton sandstone…

Andle Stone

The Andle Stone is a large gritstone boulder on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire. The stone block is 6m long, 4m high and lies within a low, circular, dry stone wall enclosure. It is…

Blakey Topping Standing Stones

Blakey Topping standing stones is a small group of standing stones near the Hole of Horcum in the North York Moors. It sits at the foot of Blakey Topping hill. There are at least…

Blowing Stone

The Blowing Stone is a perforated sarsen in Kingston Lisle, Oxfordshire, England. The stone is in a garden at the foot of Blowingstone Hill just south of the Icknield Way, about…

Blue Man-i'-th'-Moss

Blue Man-i'-th'-Moss is a 2-metre-tall standing stone on Wheeldale Moor in the North York Moors, along the route of the Lyke Wake Walk. Though now used as a parish boundary…

Boswens Menhir

Boswens Menhir, also known as Boswens standing stone, or the Long Stone, is a standing stone 3 kilometres northeast of St Just in Penwith, in Cornwall. The stone lies to the west…

Carfury Standing Stone

Carfury Standing Stone is a standing stone in Penwith, Cornwall, about 4 km northwest of Penzance. Also called Cuckoo Rock, the stone stands around 3m tall and is 0.7m wide by…

Coffin Stone

The Coffin Stone, also known as the Coffin and the Table Stone, is a large sarsen stone at the foot of Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent.…

Cossington, Kent

Close to Kit's Coty House and the Countless Stones, the site lies within the broader Medway megalithic landscape where monuments were built from local sarsen stone between the 4th…

Cuckoo Stone

The Cuckoo Stone is a Neolithic or Bronze Age standing stone. The stone, which is now fallen, is in a field near to Woodhenge and Durrington Walls in Wiltshire, England. It is…

Devil's Arrows

The Devil's Arrows are three aligned standing stones located outside Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire, England, near to where the A168 road crosses the River Ure. The outer stones…

Drizzlecombe

Drizzlecombe or Thrushelcombe is an area of Dartmoor in the county of Devon, England, containing a number of Bronze Age stone rows, cairns and menhirs. There are three principal…

Giant's Grave, Cumbria

Giant's Grave is a pair of standing stones at the foot of Black Combe in Cumbria, England, dating to the Neolithic period (4500–3000 BC). The smaller stone features three…

Heel Stone

The Heel Stone is a single large block of sarsen stone standing within the Avenue outside the entrance of the Stonehenge earthwork in Wiltshire. It has a minimum thickness of 2.4…

Leper Stone

The Leper Stone or Newport Stone is a large sarsen stone near the village of Newport, Essex. Julian Cope, Peter Herring, UK Geocaching along with D.G. Buckley and Ken Newton's…

Longstone of Minchinhampton

The Longstone of Minchinhampton is a standing stone on Minchinhampton Common, Minchinhampton in Gloucestershire, England. The Longstone is a large piece of oolitic limestone…

Mên-an-Tol

The Mên-an-Tol is a small formation of standing stones in Cornwall. The Mên-an-Tol consists of three upright granite stones: a round stone with its middle holed out with two…

Mên Scryfa

An inscribed standing stone near the Madron-to-Morvah road in Cornwall, England, standing 1.8 m tall. The name means "stone with writing" in Cornish. Likely erected in the Bronze…

Merrivale, Devon

Merrivale is a Bronze Age and Neolithic ceremonial complex on western Dartmoor, Devon. The site includes two double stone rows (the longest stretching 263 metres), a stone circle…

Nine Maidens Stone Row

Nine Maidens stone row is an ancient monument in the parish of St Columb Major, Cornwall, England. The Nine Maidens are also known in Cornish as Naw-voz, or Naw-whoors meaning…

Ringmoor Stone Row and Cairn Circle

Ringmoor stone row and cairn circle is a prehistoric stone row and cairn circle on Ringmoor Down in Devon. It is located three miles east of the A386, northeast of the village of…

Rollright Stones

The Rollright Stones are a complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments near Long Compton, on the Oxfordshire-Warwickshire border. Constructed from local oolitic…

Rudston Monolith

The Rudston Monolith, at over 25 feet, is the tallest monolith in the United Kingdom, originating in the U.K. It is situated in the churchyard of All Saints Church, in the village…

Shovel Down

Shovel Down is an area of Dartmoor in Devon that is covered in megaliths including the remains of several stone rows, the Fourfold Stone Circle, and several standing stones. The…

Stalldown Barrow

Stalldown Barrow is a megalithic site on Dartmoor in Devon, England, located approximately 5 kilometres from Harford. The monument consists of a long stone row. The site is…

Station Stones - Stonehenge

The Station Stones are four sarsen stones erected at Stonehenge forming the corners of a precise rectangle straddling the inner stone circle. Only two of the original four stones…

St Breock Downs Monolith

St Breock Downs Monolith is the largest and heaviest prehistoric Menhir in Cornwall. It stands on the summit of St Breock Downs. The stone is made from the local Devonian shale…

The Longstones

The Longstones are two standing stones, one of which is the remains of a prehistoric 'cove' of standing stones, at grid reference SU089693, close to Beckhampton in Avebury parish.…

The Pipers

The Pipers are a pair of standing stones near The Hurlers stone circles, located on Bodmin Moor near the village of Minions, Cornwall. The Pipers are approximately 2 metres high…

The Pipers, St Buryan

The Pipers are a pair of standing stones near The Merry Maidens stone circle located 2 miles to the south of the village of St Buryan, in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The Pipers are…

Three Brothers, Lancashire

The site was surveyed by archaeo-astronomer Alexander Thom.

Tolvan Holed Stone

The Tolvan holed stone is a large triangular-shaped standing stone. It measures 2.3 m high, 2.3 m wide at the base, and is 0.3 m thick. Near the base of the monument is a circular…

White Horse Stone

The White Horse Stone is a name given to two separate sarsen megaliths on the slopes of Blue Bell Hill, near the village of Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent.…

Yelland Stone Rows

The Yelland Stone Rows is a prehistoric monument of two parallel rows of small standing stones located on the tidal mudflats of the River Taw estuary, in Devon. The stone…

Arbor Low

Arbor Low is a well-preserved Neolithic henge in the Derbyshire Peak District, England. It lies on a Carboniferous Limestone plateau known as the White Peak area. The monument…

Arminghall

In 1929 a prehistoric timber circle and henge monument site was discovered 1+1⁄2 miles north-west of Arminghall village by Gilbert Insall who had been taking aerial photographs of…

Avebury

Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. The Avebury monument is a part of a larger…

Bluestonehenge

Bluestonehenge, also called Bluehenge, is a prehistoric henge and stone circle monument about 1 mile south-east of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. Tentative dating places the…

Castle Dykes Henge

Castle Dykes Henge is a Class I Neolithic henge earthwork in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England, situated between the villages of Aysgarth and Thornton…

Coneybury Henge

Coneybury Henge is a henge which is part of the Stonehenge Landscape in Wiltshire, England. The henge, which has been almost completely flattened, was only discovered in the 20th…

Devil's Quoits

The Devil's Quoits is a henge and stone circle to the south of the village of Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, England. The Quoits were restored between 2002 and 2008, with new…

Durrington Walls

Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in England. It lies 2 miles north-east of…

Ferrybridge Henge

Ferrybridge Henge is a Neolithic henge near Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire, England. It is the furthest south of Yorkshire's henges and the only one in West Yorkshire. The site holds…

King Arthur's Round Table

King Arthur's Round Table is a Neolithic henge in the village of Eamont Bridge in the English county of Cumbria, around one mile south east of Penrith. It is 400 metres from…

Knowlton Circles

Knowlton Circles (also known as Knowlton Henges or Knowlton Rings) are a complex of henges and earthworks in Knowlton, Dorset. The henge enclosing Knowlton Church is the best…

Marden Henge

Marden Henge is the largest Neolithic henge enclosure discovered to date in the United Kingdom. The monument is north-east of the village of Marden, Wiltshire, within the Vale of…

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 an entrance…

Mayburgh Henge

Mayburgh Henge is a large prehistoric monument in the county of Cumbria in northern England. The henge is in the care of English Heritage and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. It…

Mount Pleasant Henge

Mount Pleasant henge is a Neolithic henge enclosure in the English county of Dorset. It lies southeast of Dorchester in the civil parish of West Stafford. The enclosure is…

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. The henge consists of a large, circular earthwork, which is…

Thornborough Henges

The Thornborough Henges are an ancient monument complex that includes the three aligned henges that give the site its name. They are located on a raised plateau above the River…

Waulud's Bank

Waulud's Bank is a possible Neolithic henge in Leagrave, Luton, England dating from 3000 BC. Archaeological excavations in 1953, 1971 and 1982 date the site to around 3000 BC, in…

Wilsford Henge

Wilsford Henge is the site of a Neolithic henge, west of the village of Wilsford, Wiltshire in the United Kingdom. The monument lies within the Vale of Pewsey, a short distance…

Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire

Arthur's Stone is a Neolithic chambered tomb, or dolmen, in Herefordshire. It is situated on the ridge line of a hill overlooking both the Golden Valley, Herefordshire and the Wye…

Blue Bell Hill

Blue Bell Hill is a chalk hill between Maidstone and Rochester in the English county of Kent. A famous feature of the hill is the eastern group of the prehistoric tombs called the…

Carwynnen Quoit

Carwynnen Quoit is a dolmen belonging to the Neolithic period, at Carwynnen near Camborne in west Cornwall. It is also known as 'The Giant's Quoit', 'The Giant's Frying Pan',…

Chûn Quoit

Chûn Quoit is one of the best preserved of all Neolithic quoits (also called dolmens or cromlechs) in western Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Chûn Quoit is located in open…

Hell Stone

The Hell Stone is a badly-restored Neolithic dolmen on Portesham Hill in Dorset, England. It is just to the north of the village of Portesham, and approximately three-quarters of…

Lanyon Quoit

Lanyon Quoit is a dolmen in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 2 miles southeast of Morvah. It collapsed in a storm in 1815 and was re-erected nine years later, and as a result…

Mulfra Quoit

Mulfra Quoit is a Neolithic dolmen in the county of Cornwall in England. It stands on Mulfra Hill to the north of the hamlet of Mulfra. The Quoit is located west of Penzance…

Pawton Quoit

Pawton Quoit is a prehistoric portal dolmen, which dates to the Early and Middle Neolithic period in England (3500–2600 BC). Pawton Quoit is a Neolithic burial tomb located about…

Sperris Quoit

Sperris Quoit is a ruined megalithic burial chamber or dolmen, and one of a type of tomb unique to West Penwith, located on a moor around 365 metres northeast of Zennor Quoit,…

Spinsters' Rock

Spinsters' Rock is a Neolithic dolmen near Drewsteignton in Devon. It is situated on Shilstone Farm west of the village. The dolmen consists of three granite supports rising to…

The Devil's Den

The Devil's Den or Devil's Den is a dolmen burial chamber on Fyfield Hill near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. The chamber is part of a Neolithic passage grave on Fyfield Down.…

Three Brothers of Grugith

The Three Brothers of Grugith is a prehistoric site, a dolmen of the Neolithic Age, near St Keverne in Cornwall, England. It is a scheduled monument. The dolmen is situated near…

Trethevy Quoit

Trethevy Quoit is a well-preserved megalithic structure between St Cleer and Darite in Cornwall, England. Trethevy Quoit is north of Liskeard in the hamlet of Tremar Coombe. In…

West Lanyon Quoit

West Lanyon Quoit, also known as Lower Lanyon Quoit, is the remains of a prehistoric dolmen situated in the parish of Madron in Cornwall. It was excavated in the late 18th…

Zennor Quoit

Zennor Quoit is a ruined megalithic burial chamber or dolmen, located on a moor about a mile east of the village of Zennor, Cornwall, England. Aside from the 12.5-tonne roof,…

Beeley Moor

Beeley Moor is a small gritstone upland area in the Derbyshire Peak District of central and northern England, near the villages of Beeley and Baslow. Its highest point is 371…

Botley Stone

Botley Stone is a Neolithic mound or tumulus in Shropshire, England, dating to 4500-3000 BC. Located near the hamlet of Hamperley.

Broadsands Chambered Tomb

The Broadsands Chambered Tomb is a Neolithic burial chamber located on a slope overlooking Broadsands Beach in Torbay in Devon. The tomb is currently a part of a hedge bank,…

Brown Willy Cairns

The summit of Brown Willy is 1,378 feet above sea level, the highest point on Bodmin Moor and in the county of Cornwall. Brown Willy Summit Cairn or Brown Willy North Cairn is a…

Chapel Carn Brea

Chapel Carn Brea is an elevated Hercynian granite outcrop, owned by the National Trust at the southern edge of the civil parish of St Just, Cornwall, England. The hill is an…

Devil's Lapful

Devil's Lapful is an archaeological site in Northumberland in Kielder Forest about 0.8 miles south-east of Kielder. The site, a Neolithic long cairn, is a scheduled monument. The…

Dunkery Beacon - Dunkery Hill

Dunkery Beacon at the summit of Dunkery Hill is the highest point on Exmoor and in Somerset, England. It is also the highest point in southern England outside of Dartmoor. The…

Little Meg

Little Meg is a small circle of large kerb stones which probably surrounded a Bronze Age kerb cairn. It is close to the village of Langwathby to the north-east of Penrith in the…

Long Low, Wetton

Long Low is a Neolithic and Bronze Age site in the English county of Staffordshire. It is about 2 km SE of Wetton. It consists of two round cairns linked by a connecting bank – an…

Margery Hill

Margery Hill is a 546-metre hill on the Howden Moors in South Yorkshire, England. It lies towards the northern boundary of the Peak District National Park, between Langsett…

Pikestones

Pikestones is the remains of a Neolithic Burial Cairn, located on Anglezarke moor in Lancashire. The site is approximately 150 feet long and 60 feet across at its widest point. It…

Showery Tor

Showery Tor is a rocky outcrop on a ridge-top approximately 0.6 kilometres north of the Rough Tor summit, near Camelford on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. It is notable for its rock…

Stapeley Hill

Stapeley Hill in southwest Shropshire is home to Mitchell's Fold, a Bronze Age stone circle constructed over 3,000 years ago from dolerite stones quarried from the hill itself.…

The Bridestones

The Bridestones is a chambered cairn, near Congleton, Cheshire, England, that was constructed in the Neolithic period about 3500–2400 BC. It was described in 1764 as being 120…

Aldersgate

Aldersgate is an area in the City of London named after a Roman-era gate on the northern side of the London Wall. The ward was traditionally divided into Aldersgate Within and…

Aldgate

Aldgate was a gate in the former defensive wall around the City of London. Aldgate was "fortified with porticullises and chained" in 1377 due to concerns about potential attacks…

Amphitheatre, London

The visible remains of an amphitheatre constructed during Roman London lie beneath Guildhall Yard in the City of London. Discovered in 1988, the site is now a scheduled monument.…

Appleby Logboat

The Appleby logboat is a Bronze Age vessel discovered in 1943 during dredging of the old River Acholme near Appleby, North Lincolnshire, England. Dating to 1500–1300 BC, it is one…

Ash Hole Cavern

Ash Hole Cavern is a limestone cave system in Brixham, Devon, with evidence of human habitation dating back to the Neolithic period. Archaeological excavations have uncovered…

Ashdown Forest

Ashdown Forest contains over 570 archaeological sites preserved by heathland conditions and minimal ploughing. The earliest evidence is a stone hand axe found near Gills Lap,…

Aston Valley Barrow Cemetery

The Aston Valley Barrow Cemetery, or Ashton Valley Barrow Cemetery, is a group of Bronze Age bowl barrow and bell barrow tumuli on the south facing edge of Codford Down on the…

Aubrey Holes - Stonehenge

The Aubrey holes are a ring of 56 chalk pits at Stonehenge, named after seventeenth-century antiquarian John Aubrey. They date to the earliest phases of Stonehenge in the late…

Aveline's Hole

Aveline's Hole is a cave at Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The earliest scientifically dated cemetery in Britain, 10,200 and 10,400…

Aymestrey Burial

The Aymestrey burial was a beaker cist at Aymestrey, Herefordshire, England. While working a gravel quarry at Aymestrey, in June 1987, employees of ARC unearthed a hole with a…

Balkerne Gate

Balkerne Gate is a Roman gateway in Colchester (ancient Camulodunum). It is the largest surviving gateway in Roman Britain, constructed where the Roman road from Londinium…

Bant's Carn

Bant's Carn is a Bronze Age entrance grave located on a steep slope on the island of St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly, England. The tomb is one of the best examples of a…

Bartlow Hills

Bartlow Hills is a Roman tumuli cemetery in Bartlow, Cambridgeshire. The tallest barrow is 15 metres high, and is the largest Roman barrow north of the Alps. The barrows date from…

Beaumont Cut

Beaumont Cut was a 1-kilometre-long canal linking Beaumont Quay, in the parish of Beaumont-cum-Moze, Tendring, Essex, England, with Hamford Water and the North Sea. It was opened…

Beer Quarry Caves

Beer Quarry Caves is a man-made limestone underground complex located about a mile west of the village of Beer, Devon, and the main source in England for Beer stone. The tunnels…

Billingsgate Roman House and Baths

Billingsgate Roman House and Baths is an archaeological site in Londinium. The best preserved parts of the house are a bath with hypocausts. The ruins of the tepidarium were…

Bishopsgate

Bishopsgate was one of the eastern gates in London's former Roman defensive wall. The gate's name is traditionally attributed to Earconwald, who served as Bishop of London in the…

Blackpatch

Blackpatch is an archaeological site in West Sussex, England, about 2 miles west of the village of Findon and about 3 miles north-west of Worthing. It is the site of a Neolithic…

Boleigh Fogou

Boleigh Fogou is an Iron Age underground dry-stone passage near St Buryan in Cornwall, considered one of the best-preserved fogous in the county. Unusual for having more than one…

Bridge Street Number 39, Chester

39 Bridge Street is a Grade I listed building in Chester, England, remarkable for preserving a Roman hypocaust in its cellar. The heating system consists of 27 surviving square…

Burnt Fen

Burnt Fen is an area of low-lying land crossed by the A1101 road between Littleport in Cambridgeshire and Mildenhall in Suffolk. It is surrounded on three sides by rivers, and…

Burnt Mound in Fox Hollies Park

The Burnt Mound in Fox Hollies Park is a Bronze Age archaeological feature in the Acocks Green area of south Birmingham, scheduled as an ancient monument in 2002. The low oval…

Burrington Combe

Burrington Combe is a Carboniferous Limestone gorge near the village of Burrington, on the north side of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in North Somerset,…

Carn Euny

Carn Euny is an archaeological site near Sancreed, on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall. It consists of evidence of both Iron Age and post-Iron Age settlement, with excavation on…

Carn Kenidjack

Carn Kenidjack is a hill in Tregeseal, Cornwall, UK. It is covered in megaliths including Tregeseal East stone circle. A tale is told that two miners returning home one night…

Castle Hill, Torrington

Castle Hill in Great Torrington, Devon, comprises two hills, the first within the town being the site of the Norman and Medieval castles, which was probably an Iron Age hill fort…

Catholme Ceremonial Complex

The Catholme ceremonial complex is an archaeological site of the Neolithic period in Staffordshire, England, near Barton-under-Needwood. The site is near the River Trent to the…

Cawthorne Roman Camp

Cawthorn Roman Camps is a well-preserved Roman military site 6 km north of Pickering in the North York Moors, dating to the late 1st-early 2nd century AD (c. 80-120 AD). The…

Chester Roman Amphitheatre

Chester Amphitheatre is a Roman amphitheatre in Chester, Cheshire, northwest England, managed by English Heritage and designated as a Grade I listed building and scheduled…

Chesters Bridge

Chesters Bridge was a Roman bridge over the River North Tyne at Chollerford, Northumberland, England, and adjacent to the Roman fort of Cilurnum on Hadrian's Wall. The remains of…

Church Hill, West Sussex

Church Hill is a Neolithic and Bronze Age flint mining site on the South Downs near Findon, West Sussex, about 4.8 km northwest of Worthing. The scheduled monument contains…

Chysauster Ancient Village

Chysauster Ancient Village is a late Iron Age and Romano-British village of courtyard houses in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Chysauster lies in southwest Cornwall in the…

Corbridge Lion

The Corbridge Lion, Northumberland, England, is an ancient Roman free-standing sandstone sculpture of a male lion standing on a prone animal (possibly a deer) on a…

Coventina

Dedications to Coventina and votive deposits were found in a walled area which had been built to contain the outflow from a spring now called "Coventina's Well". The well itself…

Creswell Crags

Creswell Crags is an enclosed limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England, near the villages of Creswell and Whitwell. The cliffs contain several…

Cripplegate

Cripplegate was a gate in the London Wall which once enclosed the City of London. The Cripplegate gate lent its name to the Cripplegate ward of the City. Cripplegate was rebuilt…

Deva Victrix

Deva Victrix, or simply Deva, was a legionary fortress and town in the Roman province of Britannia on the site of the modern city of Chester. The fortress was built by the Legio…

Dog Hole Cave

Dog Hole Cave is an archaeologically significant cave near Storth, Cumbria, England. Other names for the cave include Haverbrack Bank Pot, Haverbrack Dog Hole, Fairy Cave, The Dog…

Double Arches Pit

Double Arches Pit (formerly known as New Trees Pit) was a sand quarry near the village and civil parish of Heath and Reach, Bedfordshire. It is now a Site of Special Scientific…

Dragon Hill, Uffington

Dragon Hill is a small hillock immediately below the Uffington White Horse on the border of the civil parishes of Uffington and Woolstone in the English county of Oxfordshire.…

Eartham Pit, Boxgrove

The Boxgrove Palaeolithic site is a complex of internationally important Lower Palaeolithic archaeological sites in the former Eartham Quarry, north-east of Boxgrove in West…

Ecclesall Woods

Ecclesall Woods is an area of woodland in south-west Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It covers approximately 350 acres of mature semi-natural deciduous woodland which was…

Farley Green, Surrey

Site of a Romano-Celtic temple on Farley Heath near Albury, Surrey, representing the largest Romano-British settlement in the county. The square temple featured an outer portico…

Fiskerton Log Boat

The Fiskerton log boat is an Iron Age log boat, found during excavations in 2001 on the banks of the River Witham near Fiskerton, Lincolnshire. The Fiskerton log boat was made…

Five Wells

Five Wells is a Neolithic chambered tomb between the villages of Chelmorton and Taddington on Taddington Moor in the Derbyshire Peak District in England. The tomb is a protected…

Foss Dyke

The Foss Dyke is a Roman-built canal linking the River Trent at Torksey to Lincoln, potentially the oldest navigable canal in England still in use. Constructed around AD 120,…

Gib Hill

Gib Hill is a large burial mound in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England. It is thought to be a Neolithic oval barrow with an Early Bronze Age round barrow superimposed at one…

Glastonbury Lake Village

Glastonbury Lake Village was an Iron Age village, situated on a crannog or man made island in the Somerset Levels, near Godney, some 3 miles north west of Glastonbury in the…

Gog Magog Hills

The Gog Magog Hills, a range of low chalk hills southeast of Cambridge, contain a rich archaeological landscape spanning millennia. Little Trees Hill preserves a Neolithic…

Goonhilly Downs - Dry Tree Menhir

The Dry Tree Menhir is a Bronze Age standing stone approximately 3 m tall on Goonhilly Downs, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall. Made of gabbro rock transported from Crousa Downs about 2…

Gough's Cave

Gough's Cave is located in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Cheddar, Somerset, England. The cave contained skeletal remains of animals and of humans, indicating that the cave…

Great Tottington

Great Tottington is a moated manor farm near Maidstone in Kent, England, featuring scattered sarsen stones around a spring that may represent remains of a Neolithic monument…

Grime's Graves

Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex in Norfolk, England. It lies 8 km north east from Brandon, Suffolk in the East of England. It was worked between c. 2600…

Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. Running from Wallsend on the River Tyne…

Halangy Down

Halangy Down is a prehistoric settlement located on the island of St Mary's, in the Isles of Scilly. On the site are the remains of an Iron Age village, two entrance graves,…

Halliggye Fogou

Halliggye Fogou is one of many fogous in Cornwall, England. The Halliggye Fogou consists of a long narrow tunnel leading to three sectioned chambers. The complex of passages has a…

Harrow Hill, West Sussex

Harrow Hill is an archaeological site in West Sussex, England. It is on the South Downs about 3 miles north of the village of Angmering and 5 miles north-west of Worthing. A shaft…

Heaning Wood Bone Cave

Heaning Wood Bone Cave is a cave of archaeological importance in Great Urswick, Cumbria. The cave was first excavated by Holland in 1958, when he found Bronze Age pottery, human…

Heelstone Ditch

Heelstone Ditch is a roughly circular feature surrounding the Heel Stone at Stonehenge. It is not known if there was an intended relationship between the ditch and the heelstone…

Highdown Hill

A multi-period archaeological site on an 81-metre chalk hill in West Sussex, featuring a Bronze Age Ram's Hill type enclosure, an Iron Age univallate hillfort refortified c.…

Innisidgen

Innisidgen is the site of two Bronze Age entrance graves on the island of St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. The two burial monuments, (Upper and Lower Innisidgen) lie on a steep…

Jaw Hill

Jaw Hill is a hill in the City of Leeds district of West Yorkshire, England. It is near Kirkhamgate in the City of Wakefield district. A large square cropmark enclosure was…

Jewry Wall

The Jewry Wall is a substantial ruined wall of 2nd-century Roman masonry, with two large archways, in Leicester. The wall is an impressive example of standing Roman masonry. It…

Jordan Hill Roman Temple

Jordan Hill Roman Temple is a Romano-Celtic temple and Roman ruin situated on Jordan Hill above Bowleaze Cove in the eastern suburbs of Weymouth in Dorset. Original amateur…

Kents Cavern

Kents Cavern is a cave system in Torquay, Devon, England. It is notable both for its archaeological and geological features. Handaxes found in the "Breccia" layer of the cavern…

King Arthur's Hall

King Arthur's Hall is a megalithic enclosure on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, UK. The interior fills with water and a contemporary ground level has not been established. The…

Kirkdale Cave

Kirkdale Cave is a cave and fossil site located in Kirkdale near Kirkbymoorside in the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, England. William Buckland analyzed the cave and its…

Knag Burn Gateway

The Knag Burn Gateway is a gateway which was built into Hadrian's Wall some time after construction of the wall itself, generally acknowledged to be during the fourth century.…

Langdale Axe Industry

The Langdale Axe Industry was a major Neolithic stone axe production centre in the Lake District, using local greenstone volcanic rock to manufacture polished axes between…

Leahill Turret, Hadrian's Wall

Leahill Turret is a typical example of one of the lookout towers located between the milecastles on Hadrian's Wall in Cumbria, located on the Lanercost Road near Banks. It is…

Lees Hall Roman Camp

Lees Hall Roman Camp is an archaeological site, a Roman camp near Hadrian's Wall, in Northumberland, England. It is near Haltwhistle and adjacent to the B6318 road. The camp is…

Limestone Corner

The northernmost point of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, representing the most northerly extent of the Roman Empire outside the periods when the Antonine Wall was occupied.…

Litton Cheney

A possible Bronze Age stone circle or timber circle site near Litton Cheney village in Dorset, England. In the 1930s, Stuart and Cecily Piggott surveyed the site and identified a…

London Mithraeum

The London Mithraeum, also known as the Temple of Mithras, Walbrook, is a Roman Mithraeum that was discovered in Walbrook, a street in the City of London, during a building's…

London Wall

The London Wall is a defensive wall first built by the Romans around the strategically important port town of Londinium in c. AD 200, as well as the name of a modern street in the…

Long Man of Wilmington

The Long Man of Wilmington or Wilmington Giant is a hill figure on the steep slopes of Windover Hill near Wilmington, East Sussex, England. It is 6 miles northwest of Eastbourne…

Longforth Farm

Longforth Farm, on the outskirts of Wellington, Somerset, England, is the site of a Bronze Age landscape and an extensive medieval structure. The previously unknown site, which…

Ludgate

Ludgate was the westernmost gate in London Wall. According to legend, recorded by the Norman-Welsh cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth, Ludgate was named after the ancient British King…

Lydney Park

Lydney Park in Gloucestershire contains a late Roman temple complex atop an Iron Age hillfort. The rectangular temple was dedicated to Nodens, a Celtic healing and hunting deity…

Lynford Quarry

Approximately 60,000 years ago, Lynford Quarry near Mundford, Norfolk, was a Middle Palaeolithic hunting site where Neanderthals killed and butchered at least nine woolly…

Marlborough Mound

The Marlborough Mound, also known as Merlin's Mound or Merlin's Mount, is a Neolithic monument in the town of Marlborough in the English county of Wiltshire. Standing 19 metres…

Milton Keynes Hoard

The Milton Keynes Hoard is a Bronze Age gold hoard discovered in September 2000 at Monkston Park in Milton Keynes, England. The hoard consisted of two torcs, three bracelets, and…

Minerva's Shrine, Chester

Minerva's Shrine is a Roman shrine dedicated to the goddess Minerva, located in Edgar's Field, Handbridge, Chester, England. The shrine dates from the early 2nd century and is…

Moorgate

Moorgate was one of the City of London's northern gates in its defensive wall, the last to be built. The gate was demolished in 1762, but gave its name to a major street,…

Nebstone

The Nebstone is a notable rock found close to the Swastika Stone on the northern edge of Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire. It has the appearance of the lid of a grand piano, and is…

Newgate

Newgate was one of the historic seven gates of the London Wall around the City of London and one of the six which date back to Roman times. Newgate lay on the west side of the…

Newport Arch

Newport Arch is a 3rd-century Roman gate in the Newport district of the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire. It is a Scheduled monument and Grade I listed building and is reputedly…

North Bersted Man

The North Bersted Man is the modern name given to a warrior found in a burial at excavations by the Thames Valley Archaeological services made in 2008 near North Bersted. The…

Oldbury Camp

Oldbury Camp is the largest Iron Age hill fort in south-eastern England. It was built in the 1st century BC by Celtic British tribes on a hilltop west of Ightham, Kent. The fort…

Oldbury Rock Shelters

The Oldbury Rock Shelters are a complex of Middle Palaeolithic sites on the slopes of Oldbury hillfort near Ightham, Kent. Occupied by Neanderthal Mousterian flint tool makers…

Overstone Anglo-Saxon Cemetery

Overstone Anglo-Saxon cemetery is an Anglo-Saxon place of burial discovered at the Overstone Leys housing development site near the village of Overstone, Northamptonshire. The…

Pagans Hill Roman Temple

The Pagans Hill Roman Temple was a Romano-British-style temple (Romano-Celtic temple) excavated on Pagans Hill at Chew Stoke in the English county of Somerset. The temple faced…

Pendeen Vau

Pendeen Vau is a fogou (underground stone chamber) on the Cornish coast, situated at Pendeen Manor farm near Pendeen Lighthouse. Dating to the Iron Age, fogous are rare…

Picken's Hole

Picken's Hole is a small cave on the southern side of Crook Peak in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, designated as a scheduled monument. Named after M. J. Picken who found teeth in…

Piercebridge Roman Bridge

Piercebridge Roman Bridge is the ruin of a Roman bridge over the River Tees. The bridge carried the Roman road Dere Street across the river. Piercebridge Roman Fort guarded the…

Pike Hill Signal Tower

Pike Hill Signal Tower was one of a number of signal stations that were built on high ground overlooking the line of the Roman Stanegate road in northern Britannia during the…

Planetrees - Hadrian's Wall Section

(2nd c. AD) Planetrees is an extant section of Hadrian's Wall named after the farm located around 250 metres (820 ft) to the west. The surviving section is 35 metres (115 ft) in…

Pocklington Iron Age Burial Ground

The Pocklington Iron Age burial ground is a prehistoric cemetery discovered in 2014 on the outskirts of Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Excavations carried out on an…

Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery

Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery is an archaeological site, a group of Bronze Age round barrows, near the A35 road about 2 miles west of Winterbourne Abbas, in Dorset, England. Although…

Porth Hellick Down

Porth Hellick Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age archeological site located on the island of St Mary's, in the Isles of Scilly in Great Britain. The ancient burial monument…

Ravenglass Roman Bath House

Ravenglass Roman Bath House (also known as Walls Castle) is a ruined ancient Roman bath house at Ravenglass, Cumbria, England. Belonging to a 2nd-century Roman fort and naval base…

Robin Hood's Ball

Robin Hood’s Ball is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, approximately 5 miles northwest of the town of Amesbury. Whilst some have three or…

Roman Bath, York

The ancient remains were uncovered during construction of the current building in 1929–31, which replaced an earlier inn. The pub's exterior features Tudor Revival architecture…

Roman Baths, Bath

The Roman Baths are well-preserved thermae in the city of Bath, Somerset, England. A temple was constructed on the site between 60 and 70 AD in the first few decades of Roman…

Roman Column, York

The Roman column is a surviving element of the Roman presence in York, England, located just south of York Minster. Dating from the early 2nd century AD, it originally formed part…

Roman Theatre, St Albans

The Roman Theatre at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England is an excavated site within the Roman walled city of Verulamium. Although there are other Roman theatres in Britain, the one…

Round Loaf

Round Loaf is a Late Neolithic or Bronze Age tumulus on Anglezarke Moor in the West Pennine Moors near Chorley in Lancashire, England. The bowl barrow is a scheduled monument…

Rudchester Mithraeum

Rudchester Mithraeum is a Roman temple to the Roman god Mithras at Rudchester (Vindobala), an auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall, the northern frontier of Roman Britain. The temple…

Sancreed Beacon

Sancreed Beacon is a Bronze Age archaeological site near the village of Sancreed in the Penwith peninsula of Cornwall maintained by the Cornwall Heritage Trust. On top of the hill…

Seahenge

Seahenge, 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. A timber circle…

Silbury Hill

Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. At 39.3 metres high, the hill is the tallest and second largest prehistoric…

Smythe's Megalith

Smythe's Megalith, also known as the Warren Farm Chamber, was a chambered long barrow near the village of Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Probably…

Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications

The Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications, a huge Iron Age hill fort, sometimes but not always considered an oppidum, comprising over 9 kilometres of ditches and ramparts enclosing…

Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing…

Swanborough Tump

Swanborough Tump is an earthen mound in Manningford parish, Wiltshire, listed as a scheduled monument. Its origins are debated -- it may be a Neolithic long barrow, Early Bronze…

Swastika Stone

The Swastika Stone is a stone adorned with a swastika, located on the Woodhouse Crag on the northern edge of Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire. It is the only one of its kind known in…

Tan Hill, Wiltshire

Tan Hill is a prominent hill in All Cannings parish, Wiltshire, rising to 294 m above sea level as the second highest point of the North Wessex Downs. The hill once bore a…

Temple of Claudius, Colchester

Built between 49 and 60 AD in Camulodunum (modern Colchester), the Temple of Claudius was a large octastyle temple dedicated to the deified Roman emperor Claudius. It was the…

The Longstone, Mottistone

The Longstone is a megalithic monument near the village of Mottistone, in the civil parish of Brighstone, close to the south west coast of the Isle of Wight. It is the only…

The Poind and his Man

The Poind and his Man is a prehistoric site in Northumberland, England, near the village of Bolam and about 7 miles (11 km) west of Morpeth. The site, consisting of a burial mound…

The Salisbury Museum

The Salisbury Museum, founded in 1860 by Dr Richard Fowler, is housed in The King's House, a Grade I listed building in the Cathedral Close. It holds prehistoric material from…

Thor's Cave

Thor's Cave is a natural cavern located at SK09865496 in the Manifold Valley of the White Peak in Staffordshire. It is classified as a karst cave. Located in a steep limestone…

Town Walks, Dorchester

The Town Walks are tree-lined public promenades in Dorchester, Dorset, following the line of the Roman defences of Durnovaria. The first earthen bank and ditch were constructed no…

Tregiffian Burial Chamber

The Tregiffian Burial Chamber is a Neolithic or early Bronze Age chambered cairn located near Lamorna in west Cornwall, England. It is a rare type of passage grave known as an…

Turret - Hadrian's Wall

A turret was a small watch tower incorporated into Hadrian's Wall, built by the Romans in the 2nd century AD. The turrets were spaced at one-third Roman mile intervals…

Uffington White Horse

The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric hill figure, 110 m long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk. The figure is situated on the upper slopes of…

Upper Plym Valley

The Upper Plym Valley is a 15.5 km² archaeological landscape on Dartmoor, Devon, England, containing approximately 300 prehistoric and medieval sites. Notable prehistoric sites…

Warren Hill, Bournemouth

Warren Hill is the elevated part of Hengistbury Head in Dorset overlooking Christchurch to the North and dominating Poole Bay to the West. With finds stretching back over 10,000…

Watling Temple

Watling Temple is the name given to the remains of a temple within a Roman town next to the modern A2 road in Newington, near Sittingbourne in Kent, England. The town was…

Weetwood Moor

Weetwood Moor near Wooler, Northumberland, contains prehistoric rock art with about 30 sandstone panels of cup-and-ring markings carved into sandstone, dating to 3800-1500 BC.…

Welbeck Hill

Welbeck Hill is the site of Roman and early Saxon pottery finds, and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, located around 1.75 miles from Laceby, and around 3 miles from Riby, in North East…

Welwyn Roman Baths

The Welwyn Roman Baths are a Roman ruin preserved under the A1(M) just north of modern-day Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. The baths were a small part of the Dicket…

West Woods

West Woods is a 2,000-acre area of managed woodland near Marlborough, Wiltshire. In 2020, a landmark study published in Science Advances by the Universities of Brighton and others…

Wicklewood Roman Temple

Wicklewood Roman Temple is the site of a Romano-Celtic temple near Wicklewood and about 1.5 miles north-west of Wymondham, in Norfolk. The site was discovered in 1959 from…

Willy Howe

Willy Howe (also Willey-Hou) is a tumulus in the Yorkshire Wolds, East Riding of Yorkshire. Willy Howe is a large round barrow 7.5 m (25 ft) high, located between Wold Newton and…

Winsford, Somerset

Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on the summit of Winsford Hill, Exmoor. The cemetery includes the Wambarrows, three prominent bowl barrows ranging from 17.6m to 28.8m in diameter…

Witham Shield

The Witham Shield is an Iron Age decorative bronze shield facing of La Tène style, dating from about the 4th century BC. The shield was discovered in the River Witham in the…

Woodhenge

A Neolithic henge and timber circle within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, 3.2 km northeast of Stonehenge. Discovered from aerial photography by Gilbert Insall in 1925 and…

Wroxeter Stone

The Wroxeter Stone is the name given to a c. 460–75 AD inscribed stone unearthed in 1967 at Wroxeter, England (earlier the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum). The text reads:…

York City Walls

York has been fortified since Roman times (c. 71 AD), when the city was known as Eboracum. The walls stand approximately 13 feet (4 m) high and 6 feet (1.8 m) wide. Though often…