Ancient stones

Neolithic circle in a ring of fells.

Cumbria

Cruciform Neolithic stone setting on Lewis.

Na h-Eileanan Siar

Vast henge and circle wrapping a whole village.

Wiltshire

Greek-temple folly on a prominent hill.

Tyne and Wear

Great Neolithic stone circle on Orkney.

Orkney Islands

The most famous prehistoric monument in the world.

Wiltshire

Anglo-Saxon royal ship-burial mounds by the Deben.

Suffolk

Wales's most famous dolmen, poised capstone in the Preselis.

Pembrokeshire

Neolithic village older than Stonehenge.

Orkney Islands

Europe's largest Iron Age hillfort, ramparts intact.

Dorset

Europe's largest man-made prehistoric mound.

Wiltshire

Clava Cairns, cairns 70m, 170m NE of and 210m, 460m ENE of, barrow 270m NE of, and standing stone 395m NE of Balnuarin

Highland

Long Meg and Her Daughters stone circle, associated cursus and prehistoric enclosure

Cumbria

Dwarfie Stane, rock-cut tomb, Hoy

Orkney Islands

A Neolithic chambered tomb in Anglesey.

Anglesey

A prehistoric standing stone in Powys.

Powys

Mitchell's Fold stone circle, standing stone and cairn 280m south west of Mitchell's Fold

Shropshire

Bronze Age stone circle on Stanton Moor.

Derbyshire

A clifftop tin mine near St Just where the old pumping engine still turns under steam, above workings that ran out beneath the sea

Cornwall

Stone courtyard houses of an Iron Age and Roman farming village on a Penwith hillside.

Cornwall

Late Bronze Age settlement in a Dartmoor fold between Hookney and Hameldown tors, where a thick stone wall rings the footings of 24 round houses.

Devon

Neolithic standing stones in the heart of Orkney.

Orkney Islands

Tomnaverie, stone circle

Aberdeenshire

Well-preserved Neolithic chambered long barrow.

Gloucestershire

Well-preserved late-Roman-era enclosed settlement near Moelfre, with nine surviving stone buildings inside a walled compound.

Anglesey

Ancient complex of a stone circle, a solitary monolith and a burial chamber on the Cotswold ridge at the county edge.

Oxfordshire

Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, 230m south east of Swinside

Cumbria

Neolithic chambered long barrow ringed by beech trees on the Ridgeway, named in legend for a Saxon smith-god.

Oxfordshire

Neolithic long barrow near Wellow with seven burial chambers off a low passage and a large fossil ammonite set in its entrance stone.

Somerset

Neolithic long barrow on the Cotswold edge near Uley, better known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, with stone burial chambers opening off a low passage.

Gloucestershire

Neolithic avenue of paired standing stones winding south from Avebury towards The Sanctuary, its northern stretch re-erected in the 1930s.

Wiltshire

One of Britain's largest Neolithic chambered tombs, open to walk inside, within sight of Silbury Hill.

Wiltshire

The best-preserved stretch of Rome's northern frontier, running along the crags of open Northumberland moorland, and free to walk

Northumberland

The old sycamore on Tolpuddle's green where six farm workers met in 1834 and set the trade-union movement going

Dorset

Carved Pictish stones by an Angus roadside.

Angus

Neolithic burial chamber with a huge capstone.

Herefordshire

Neolithic passage tomb aligned to midsummer sunrise.

Anglesey

Bronze Age hut circles beside double stone rows, a small stone circle and a tall standing stone on the open moor west of Princetown.

Devon

Tallest standing stone in Britain, in a churchyard.

East Riding of Yorkshire

Best-preserved broch tower on Lewis.

Na h-Eileanan Siar

Layered settlement spanning four thousand years.

Shetland Islands

Tallest surviving Iron Age broch tower.

Shetland Islands

Roman staging post with visible bathhouse remains.

Staffordshire

Neolithic flint mines you can climb down into.

Norfolk