Archaeological Sites in Scotland
Cairn in Scotland (28)
Balnuaran of Clava
A Bronze Age cemetery east of Inverness, Scotland, built around 2000 BC, comprising three large cairns aligned northeast to southwest. The two outer cairns are passage graves and…
Barpa Langass
Barpa Langass or Langass Barp is a Neolithic chambered cairn on the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It measures around 22 meters in diameter by 5.5 meters in…
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn
The Blackhammer Chambered Cairn is a Neolithic chambered cairn located on the island of Rousay, in Orkney. Historic Environment Scotland established the site as a scheduled…
Cairnpapple Hill
Cairnpapple Hill is a hill with a dominating position in central lowland Scotland with views from coast to coast. It was used and re-used as a major ritual site for around 4,000…
Calf of Eday Cairns
The Calf of Eday is an uninhabited island northeast of Eday in Orkney, Scotland, containing three Neolithic chambered cairns dating to approximately 3600-3500 BC. The main cairn,…
Clava Cairns of Aviemore
The Clava Cairns of Aviemore are three prehistoric burial cairns located in or near the Scottish Highland town of Aviemore. All three were first described by Caleb George Cash, an…
Corrimony Chambered Cairn
The Corrimony chambered cairn, located near the village of Glen Urquhart in the Highlands of Scotland, is a well-preserved Bronze Age burial monument belonging to the group of…
Crantit Chambered Cairn
Crantit is a Neolithic chambered cairn discovered in April 1998 on the outskirts of Kirkwall, Orkney, remarkable for having remained sealed and undisturbed since prehistory.…
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn is a Neolithic chambered cairn on Mainland, the main island of Orkney, Scotland, about 6 miles west of Kirkwall. It dates to around 3000 BC, and is…
Glebe Cairn, Kilmartin Glen
Glebe Cairn is the northernmost of five burial cairns forming a linear cemetery stretching 2 km through Kilmartin Glen, Scotland, dating to between 5,000 and 3,500 years ago. The…
Grey Cairns of Camster
The Grey Cairns of Camster are two large Neolithic chambered cairns around 8.5 miles south of Watten and 5 miles north of Lybster in Caithness, in the Highland region of Scotland.…
Holm of Papa Chambered Cairn
The Holm of Papa is a very small uninhabited island in the Orkney Islands. The main sight on the small island is the Southcairn, a 20 metre long chambered cairn dating from…
Huntersquoy Chambered Cairn
Huntersquoy chambered cairn is a Neolithic chambered cairn located on the island of Eday, in Orkney. Huntersquoy chambered cairn is situated on a gently sloping hill overlooking…
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn
Knowe of Yarso chambered cairn is a Neolithic burial monument located on the island of Rousay in Orkney, Scotland. The site was excavated in the 1930s, and uncovered human and…
Maeshowe
Maeshowe is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney. The grass-covered mound that encloses the tomb measures about 35 metres in diameter and…
Midhowe Chambered Cairn
The Midhowe Chambered Cairn is a large Neolithic chambered cairn located on the south shore of the island of Rousay, Orkney. The name "Midhowe" comes from the Iron Age broch known…
Nether Largie Mid Cairn, Kilmartin Glen
Part of a linear cemetery of five burial cairns, the site lies within Kilmartin Glen, which contains the most important concentration of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains on…
Nether Largie North Cairn, Kilmartin Glen
A large round cairn in Kilmartin Glen dating to the late Neolithic and Bronze Age (c. 3000-1500 BC), forming part of a remarkable 2 km linear cemetery of five burial cairns.…
Nether Largie South Cairn, Kilmartin Glen
Nether Largie South is a Neolithic chambered cairn in Kilmartin Glen, part of a linear cemetery of five burial cairns. The internal chamber, subdivided into four compartments by…
Quanterness Chambered Cairn
Quanterness chambered cairn is a Neolithic burial monument located on Mainland, Orkney in Scotland. An Iron Age roundhouse built into the cairn was discovered during excavation in…
Quoyness Chambered Cairn
Quoyness chambered cairn is a Neolithic burial monument located on the island of Sanday in Orkney. Similar to Maeshowe in design, the tomb was probably built around 3000 BC. The…
Ri Cruin Cairn, Kilmartin Glen
Ri Cruin is the most southerly cairn in Kilmartin Glen's remarkable linear cemetery, a 2 km line of Bronze Age burial cairns in Argyll, Scotland. Built between 2200 and 1950 BC,…
Rubha an Dùnain Passage Grave
Rubha an Dùnain or Rubh' an Dùnain is an uninhabited peninsula to the south of the Cuillin hills on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It contains unique archaeological sites which in…
Taversöe Tuick Chambered Cairn
Taversöe Tuick is a Neolithic burial cairn on Rousay, Orkney, Scotland, thought to date from between 4000 and 2500 BCE. The monument includes a rare example of a double-tiered…
Tomb of the Eagles
The Tomb of the Eagles, or Isbister Chambered Cairn, is a Neolithic chambered tomb located on a cliff edge at Isbister on South Ronaldsay in Orkney, Scotland. The site was…
Unstan Chambered Cairn
Unstan is a Neolithic chambered cairn on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland, built 3400-2800 BC on a promontory extending into the Loch of Stenness near Howe, about 2 mi (3 km) north-east…
Vinquoy Chambered Cairn
Vinquoy chambered cairn is a Neolithic chambered cairn located on the island of Eday in Orkney, Scotland. The tomb probably dates to the early third millennium BC, and is similar…
Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn
Wideford Hill chambered cairn is a Neolithic chambered cairn on Mainland, Orkney in Scotland. The tomb dates to around 2000 BC, and is similar in design to the Maeshowe chambered…
Minaret/tower in Scotland (19)
Broch of Borwick
The Broch of Borwick is an Iron Age broch located on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. The broch stands on top of a cliff-top promontory 20 metres above the sea. The broch has an…
Broch of Burrian
The Broch of Burrian is an Iron Age broch located on North Ronaldsay in the Orkney Islands. The broch stands on a small headland next to a rocky shoreline. The broch has an…
Broch of Culswick
The Broch of Culswick is an unexcavated coastal broch in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. Much rubble has fallen into the centre. This broch has a massive triangular lintel stone…
Broch of Mousa
Broch of Mousa or Mousa Broch is a preserved Iron Age broch or round tower. It is on the island of Mousa in Shetland. It is the tallest broch still standing and amongst the…
Broch of West Burrafirth
The Broch of West Burrafirth is an Iron Age broch located on the west side of Mainland, Shetland. The broch stands on a low rocky islet (the "Holm of Hebrista") in West Burra…
Burra Ness Broch
Burra Ness Broch is an iron-age broch located on the east coast of the island of Yell, Shetland. Burra Ness Broch is situated 2.6 kilometres south of the small village of Gutcher…
Burroughston Broch
Burroughston Broch is an Iron Age broch located on the island of Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands. The site overlooks the North Sea on the northeast part of Shapinsay. Excavated in…
Caisteal Grugaig
Caisteal Grugaig is an Iron Age broch perched on a rocky knoll overlooking Loch Alsh in the Scottish Highlands. Brochs are drystone roundhouse towers unique to Scotland, featuring…
Carn Liath - Broch
Càrn Liath is an Iron Age broch on the eastern shore of the Scottish Highlands, near Golspie, Sutherland. The broch has an external diameter of around 19 metres and an internal…
Dun Beag Broch
Dun Beag is an iron-age broch located about 1 kilometre northwest of the village of Struan on the west coast of the island of Skye, in Scotland. Dun Beag is situated at the north…
Dun Carloway
Dun Carloway is a broch situated in the district of Carloway, on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. Dun Carloway was probably built in the 1st century AD. Through the centuries…
Dun Cuier
Dun Cuier is a broch-like galleried dun on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, perched on a rocky summit about 46 metres above sea level. The structure measures 14.5 metres…
Dun Dornaigil
Dun Dornaigil is an Iron Age broch in Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands. It is in Strathmore on the eastern bank of the Strathmore River. The broch has an external diameter of…
Dun Fiadhairt Broch
Dun Fiadhairt is an Iron Age broch located on the north coast of the island of Skye. The broch stands on a low, rocky knoll, in the midst of moorland, on a peninsula which juts…
Dun Mor Vaul
Dun Mor Vaul is an iron-age broch located on the north coast of the island of Tiree, in Scotland. The broch consists of a drystone tower with an internal diameter of 9.2 metres…
Edin's Hall Broch
Edin's Hall Broch is a 2nd-century broch near Duns in the Borders of Scotland. It is one of very few brochs found in southern Scotland. The broch has an external diameter of 28…
Sallachy Broch
Sallachy Broch is an Iron Age drystone tower on the east shore of Loch Shin in Sutherland, Scotland, designated as Scheduled Monument SM1883. The broch measures approximately 31…
Tirefour Castle
Tirefour Castle, (or Tirefour Broch, also spelled Tirfuir and Tirrefour) is an Iron Age broch located 4 kilometres north of Achnacroish on the island of Lismore, Scotland.…
Yarrows Broch
Iron Age broch situated on a promontory projecting into the Loch of Yarrows in Caithness, Scotland. The circular structure has an internal diameter of about 10 metres with walls…
City/town/settlement in Scotland (5)
Bruach An Druimein, Kimartin Glen
Bruach An Druimein is an archaeological site located 2 km south of Kilmartin in Argyll, Scotland, within Kilmartin Glen, one of the densest concentrations of prehistoric funerary…
Clachtoll Broch
Clachtoll Broch is a spectacular Iron Age drystone tower on a precipitous coastal outcrop in Assynt, Sutherland, in the Scottish Highlands. Dubbed the 'Pompeii of Brochs,' the…
Jarlshof
Jarlshof is the best-known prehistoric archaeological site in Shetland, Scotland. It lies in Sumburgh, Mainland. It contains remains dating from 2500 BC up to the 17th century AD.…
Old Scatness
Old Scatness is an archeological site on Scat Ness, near the village of Scatness, in the parish of Dunrossness in the south end of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. It consists of…
Skara Brae
Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement located along the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney. The site was discovered following a storm exposing the…
Fortification in Scotland (4)
Dun Grugaig
Dun Grugaig is a D-shaped dun, or "semi-broch", located about 7 kilometres southeast of the village of Glenelg, Highland. Dun Grugaig stands on the north bank of the Abhainn…
Dun Hallin
Dun Hallin is an Iron Age broch located near the northwest coast of the island of Skye, in Scotland. Dun Hallin is located on the Waternish peninsula of Skye, just east of the…
Dun Vulan
Dun Vulan Broch (Scottish Gaelic: 'Dùn Mhùlan' or 'Dùn Mhaoilinn') is an Iron Age broch in South Uist, Scotland. The site is now situated on an exposed promontory but was…
Tappoch Broch
Tappoch Broch, better known as Torwood Broch, is an iron-age broch located in a remote spot in dense woodland near Falkirk, Scotland. Tappoch broch was first excavated in 1864 by…
Fortress/citadel in Scotland (3)
Caterthuns
Caterthun, or the Caterthuns, is a ridge of hills near the city of Brechin in Angus. The Caterthuns are notable for being the site of two Iron Age forts known as the White…
Dun Ringill
Dun Ringill is an Iron Age hill fort on the Strathaird peninsula on the island of Skye, Scotland. The original structure of Dun Ringill is consistent with an Iron Age broch dating…
Ness of Burgi Fort
An Iron Age blockhouse fort on a dramatic promontory at the southern tip of Mainland, Shetland, probably built around 100 BC. The rectangular blockhouse measures roughly 23 m by…
Rock relief/carving in Scotland (3)
Ballochmyle Cup and Ring marks
The Ballochmyle cup and ring marks were first recorded at Ballochmyle, Mauchline, East Ayrshire, Scotland in 1986, very unusually carved on a vertical red sandstone cliff face,…
Carving depicting Animals, Kilmartin Glen
In Kilmartin Glen, one of Scotland's richest concentrations of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains, archaeologist Hamish Fenton discovered prehistoric animal carvings inside…
Cup and Ring marks, Kilmartin Glen
Kilmartin Glen in Argyll, Scotland, contains a remarkable concentration of prehistoric cup and ring marks created during the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age (c. 3000-1200 BC). Sites…
Fort in Scotland (2)
Dun Ardtreck
Dun Ardtreck is a D-shaped dun, or "semi-broch", located on the west coast of the island of Skye. The entrance is particularly well-preserved with door-checks characteristic of…
Midhowe Broch
Midhowe Broch is an Iron Age broch located on the west coast of the island of Rousay in the Orkney Islands. The broch is part of an ancient settlement, part of which has been lost…
Megalithic structures in Scotland (2)
Dun Telve
Dun Telve (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Teilbh) is an iron-age broch located about four kilometres southeast of Kirkton, the main village of the community of Glenelg, Inverness-shire in…
Dun Troddan
Dun Troddan (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Trodan) is an iron-age broch located about 5 kilometres southeast of the village of Kirkton,Glenelg, Highland, in Scotland. Dun Troddan stands on…
Stone circle in Scotland (2)
Machrie Moor Stone Circles
Machrie Moor Stone Circles comprise six stone circles on Machrie Moor, Isle of Arran, Scotland, representing the island's best-known archaeological site. The earliest activity…
Temple Wood, Kilmartin Glen
Temple Wood (or Half Moon Wood) is an ancient site located in Kilmartin Glen, near Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland. The site includes two circles. The southern circle contains a ring of…
Wall in Scotland (2)
Antonine Wall
The Antonine Wall was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland, between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of…
Funzie Girt
Funzie Girt is an ancient wall that was erected from north to south across the island of Fetlar in Shetland, Scotland. The line of the wall, which ran for over 4 kilometres, once…
Archaeological site in Scotland (1)
Other sites in Scotland (12)
Ballymeanoch, Kilmartin Glen
Ballymeanoch is a complex of Neolithic structures located in Kilmartin Glen, Scotland. It includes an avenue of two rows of standing stones with 4 and 2 stones each, a stone…
Broch of Gurness
The Broch of Gurness is an Iron Age broch village on the northeast coast of Mainland Orkney in Scotland overlooking Eynhallow Sound, about 15 miles north-west of Kirkwall. It once…
Burghead Chambered Well
The Burghead Well is an enigmatic underground structure discovered in 1809 within the perimeter of Burghead promontory fort, a major Pictish fortress in Moray, Scotland that…
Dwarfie Stane
The Dwarfie Stane is a megalithic chambered tomb carved out of a titanic block of Devonian Old Red Sandstone located in a steep-sided glaciated valley between the settlements of…
Kintradwell Broch
Kintradwell Broch (also known as Cinn Trolla) is an Iron Age broch on the coast north of Brora in Sutherland, Highland Scotland. When excavated, the entrance passage was found to…
Knap of Howar
The Knap of Howar on the island of Papa Westray in Orkney, Scotland, is a Neolithic farmstead which may be the oldest preserved stone house in northern Europe. Radiocarbon dating…
Mine Howe
Mine Howe is an Iron Age subterranean man-made chamber dug 6 meters deep inside a large mound. It is located in the Tankerness area of Orkney, Scotland, about 5 miles (8 km)…
Nether Largie Standing Stones, Kilmartin Glen
A group of five standing stones southeast of Temple Wood Stone Circle in Kilmartin Glen, arranged on a northeast-to-southwest axis with two pairs flanking a central menhir. The…
Stairhaven
Stairhaven is a ruined Iron Age broch perched on a rocky spur about 9 meters above the east shore of Luce Bay in Wigtownshire, southwestern Scotland. Also known as Broken Castle…
Stanydale Temple
Stanydale Temple is a Neolithic site on Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. Located in a field south of Stanydale village, approximately 34 km (21 mi) by road northwest of Lerwick, the…
Stones of Stenness
The Standing Stones of Stenness are a Neolithic monument five miles northeast of Stromness on the mainland of Orkney. The surviving stones are sited on a promontory at the south…
The Linear Cemetery, Kilmartin Glen
A striking alignment of five large burial cairns running 2 km north to south along the floor of Kilmartin Glen in Argyll, Scotland. The cairns span from the Neolithic to Bronze…
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