All Megalithic Sites
Megalithic sites to visit in Scotland
- VerifiedSave to ListDescription The monument comprises the remains of a complex double stone circle, lying over a setting of timber posts. The site and a small area around it was excavated in 1965. The first phase of activity was represented by a horse-shoe shaped setting of about 14 posts, open towards the SW, and other posts. In the second phase the area Read more...
- Save to ListTags: Standing StonesDating back to the third millennium BC. this is one of Britain’s most spectacular prehistoric monuments. Ring of Brodgar is a massive stone circle which originally had 60 stones, now 36 survive today. There are also 13 burial mounds and a large rock cut ditch surrounding the circle. Read more...
- VerifiedSave to ListPhone: +The Celtic cross, which is preserved in the churchyard, is the finest surviving high cross in Scotland. The Kildalton Cross was carved in the 700s, and is every inch the equal of the great high crosses of Iona. It’s still standing where it was first erected more than 1,200 years ago, making it one of very few early Christian crosses Read more...
