Prehistoric Sites in the UK
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Prehistoric Sites in the UK 6 4 4 5 3 5 2 2 4 1 1 3 1 2 3 1 3 1 3 2 1 2 12 Site Name Site Type Details 1 Carn Euny, Cornwall Settlement Iron Age 500 BC 2 Chysauster Ancient Village, Cornwall Settlement Iron Age 500 BC 3 Cheddar Gorge, Somerset Settlement Mesolithic 8000s BC 4 Flag Fen Settlement Bronze Age 1400 BC 5 Creswell Craggs, East Midlands Settlement Palaeolithic 6 Skara Brae Prehistoric Village, Orkney Islands Settlement Neolithic pre 2500 BC 1 Grime’s Graves Flint Mine, Suffolk Ancient Mine Neolithic 4000s BC 2 Great Orme/ Y Gorgarth Bronze Mine, Conwy Ancient Mine Bronze Age 1600 BC West Kennet Long Barrow, Wiltshire Burial Chamber Neolithic 3000 BC 1 2 Barclodiad y Gawres, Anglesey Burial Chamber Neolithic 3 Pentre Ifan, Pembrokeshire Burial Chamber Neolithic Stonehenge & Landscape, Wiltshire Stone Circle Mesolithic 8500 BC (landscape) 1 Neolithic 2500 BC (henge) 2 Avebury Stone Circle & Landscape, Wiltshire Stone Circle Neolithic 2850 BC 3 Stanton Drew Stone Circle, Somerset Stone Circle Neolithic 2500 BC 4 Ballymeanoch & Glen of Kilmartin, Argyll & Bute Stone Circle Neolithic 1 Maiden Castle, Dorset Hill Fort Iron Age 800 BC 2 Danebury Hill Fort, Hampshire Hill Fort Iron Age 700 BC 3 Uffington Castle & White Horse, Hampshire Hill Fort Bronze/ Iron Ages 1740s BC 1 Early Human Footprints at Happisburgh, Norfolk Fossil Footprints 800,000s BC 1 Ancient Britain Galleries, the British Museum Museum London 2 Wiltshire Museum, Devizes Museum Wiltshire 3 Early Peoples Galleries, Ulster Museum Museum Belfast 4 The Hunterian Museum Museum Glasgow 5 Origins Gallery, Tuille House Museum Museum Carlisle Further Information English Heritage manages the heritage sites at Carn Euny, Chysauster, Grime’s Graves, Avebury & West Kennet, Stonehenge, Stanton Drew, Maiden Castle, and Uffington Castle & White Horse. www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/ The landscapes around Stonehenge and Avebury are looked after by the National Trust. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk Skara Brae is owned by Historic Scotland. www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/skara-brae Barclodiad y Gawres and Pentre Ifan are managed by CADW. cadw.gov.wales/visit/places-to-visit Danebury Hill Fort is managed by Hampshire County Council. www.hants.gov.uk/thingstodo/countryside/finder/danebury Cheddar Gorge, Creswell Craggs, Great Orme and Kilmartin Museum (for Ballymeanoch & Landscape) are all independently owned. Flag Fen is run by Vivacity. www.cheddargorge.co.uk/ www.creswell-crags.org.uk/ www.greatormemines.info/ www.kilmartin.org/ vivacity.org/heritage- venues/flag-fen/ All the museums have their own dedicated websites. Other museums may have smaller prehistoric collections, see below for a more detailed list: http://www.schoolsprehistory.co.uk/2015/04/29/museums-with-stone-age-to- iron-age-collections-on-display/.