English Heritage and Prehistory

Arthur’s Stone © David Gill

English Heritage cares for a large number of prehistoric sites. These include the following categories (although these are broad groups):

Tombs and Mounds

• Arthur’s Stone
• Ballowall Barrow
• Bant’s Carn Burial Chamber and Halangy Down Ancient Village
• Belas Knap Long Barrow
• Flowerdown Barrows
• Hob Hurt’s House
• Innisidgen Lower and Upper Burial Chambers
• Kit’s Coty House and Little Kit’s Coty House
• Nympsfield Long Barrow
• Porth Hellick Down Burial Chamber
• Silbury Hill, Avebury
• Stoney Littleton Long Barrow
• Tregiffian Burial Chamber
• Trethevy Quoit
• Uley Long Borrow (Hetty Pegler’s Stump)
• Wayland’s Smithy
• West Kennet Long Barrow, Avebury
• Windmill Tump Long Barrow, Rodmarton
• Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrows

Settlements

• Carn Euny Ancient Village
• Chysauster Ancient Village
• Grimspound
• Merrivale Prehistoric Settlement
• Upper Plym Valley
• Windmill Hill, Avebury

Fogou

• Halliggye Fogou

Hill Forts and Defences

• Blackbury Camp
• Bratton Camp and White Horse
• Lexden Earthworks and Bluebottle Grove
• Maiden Castle
• Offa’s Dyke
• Old Oswestry Hill Fort
• Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications
• Uffington Castle: White Horse and Dragon Hill

Henges and Standing Stones

• Arbor Low Stone Circle and Gib Hill Barrow
• Avebury
• Castlerigg Stone Circle
• Hatfield Earthworks (Marden Henge)
• Hurlers Stone Circles
• King Arthur’s Round Table
• Kingston Russell Stone Circle
• Knowlton Church and Earthworks
• Mayburgh Henge
• Mitchell’s Fold Stone Circle
• Nine Ladies Stone Circle
• Rollright Stones
• St Breock Downs Monolith
• Stanton Drew Circles and Cove
• Stonehenge
• The Nine Stones
• The Sanctuary, Avebury
• West Kennet Avenue, Avebury
• Woodhenge

Museums

• Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury

Mine

• Grime’s Graves: Prehistoric Flint Mine