megalithic sites
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Tiahuanaco
Bolivia
This ancient city was the capital of a powerful pre-Inca civilization that dominated the Andean region between 500 and 900. Its monumental remains include several temples, a pyramid, symbolic gates and sculptures.
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Almendres Menhir
Portugal
5000-4000 BCE
This single standing stone is 3 meters high and astronomically aligned with the nearby Almendres Cromlech.
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Almendres Cromlech
Evora, Portugal
Boasting a spectacular hillside location among olive and cork trees, this stone circle is the most important megalithic site in Portugal. Its 96 standing stones were arranged in an oval in 5000-4000 BCE.
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House of the Virgin
Ephesus, Turkey
Discovered in a vision by a bedridden German nun in 1812, this stone building is believed by many Catholics and Muslims to be where the Virgin Mary lived her last years. It includes a healing fountain.
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Carnac Stones
Morbihan, France
Located in a village in Brittany, the Carnac Stones are a huge system of more than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones erected between 4500 and 2000 BCE.
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Stone Circle 635m WSW of Ord
Auchindoir and Kearn, Scotland
The monument comprises the remains of a stone circle dating to the Bronze Age, visible as two standing stone monoliths. It lies at the SW foot of Ord Hill, 230 m above sea level, in a NE-SW sloping cultivated field.
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Stone Circle 300m SSW of South Ythsie
Tarves, Scotland
The monument comprises a stone circle of prehistoric date, visible as a series of upstanding stones. The monument was last scheduled in 1961, but the protected area was inadequately defined: the present rescheduling rectifies this.
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Tuach Hill Stone Circle and Enclosure 130m SW of Gallow Top
Kintore, Scotland
The monument comprises a scoop in the SW facing hillside, overlooking a long burial mound, bounded by an enclosing ditch with an external bank. Within the enclosed area are the remains of a stone circle or setting; only one stone is now upright.
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Stone Circle 300m E of Tamnagorn
Cluny, Scotland
The monument comprises the Tamnagorn recumbent stone circle, some 4500 years old, which is situated to the NW of the summit of a hill which is un-named on the Ordnance Survey map.
- Stone Circle N of Stoneyfield Drumblade, Scotland
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Stonehead Stone Circle
Insch, Scotland
The monument comprises the remains of a recumbent stone circle. The only visible features are the massive recumbent stone and its two flanking pillars.
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Stone Circle 850m S of Gourdie
Dundee, Scotland
The monument comprises the remains of a stone circle of prehistoric date.
