Round tower-like drystone structure, confined mainly to the North and West of Scotland, and dating to the Iron Age

An underground monument hollowed out of solid rock, and generally designed to take a collective burial. Rock-cut tombs are frequently found in the Mediterranean basin

More or less straight row of standing stones

See gallery grave

In the form of a human outline

The study of astronomical practices amongst ancient societies

Round or long mound of earth over burial chamber or deposit. Many different shapes and often surrounded by a ditch. A long barrow is an extended tumulus, an unchambered long barrow is a long tumulus without a burial chamber, and a chambered barrow is a tumulus containing a tomb, generally megalithic

Acronym for Before the Common Era, Before the Christian Era, or Before the Current Era. Date notation equivalent to BC (Before Christ).

Continental people who first entered Britain around 2600 BCE, their name coming from the distinctive and elegant pots that were often buried with the dead under round barrows. They may have been the first metal-users in the British Isles

The name given to the mixture of stones, mainly of dolerite, probably from the Preseli mountains of Dyfed, used at Stonehenge