Stone circles · South West England
Neolithic Britain: stones, circles and burial mounds
Stonehenge, Avebury, Skara Brae and the henges of Orkney — 5,000 years of monument.
Britain's Neolithic period (roughly 4000–2500 BCE) left more standing monuments than any other prehistoric era. The Wessex landscape around Stonehenge and Avebury, the Brodgar–Stenness–Maeshowe complex in Orkney, and the Calanais stones on Lewis are the showpieces — but lesser-known stones at Castlerigg, Rollright and Long Meg matter too.
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