Archive briefing
The Darkives lists 84 locations where our community has documented high strangeness. All are in the United Kingdom, and the most-recorded areas are North Yorkshire (19), Orkney (9) and Derbyshire (6).
They are most often recorded at burial cairns & tombs (34), burial barrows (23) and henges & stone circles (9).
Members have filed 1 first-hand witness report across 1 of these places; each location page holds its full history, photos and reports.
United Kingdom
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1 reportHigh StrangenessRAF Staxton Wold (RRH Staxton Wold)
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
RAF Staxton Wold (or Remote Radar Head Staxton Wold) was one of Britain’s earliest radar stations, established before the Second World War and later…
Former RAF BaseOpen file
High StrangenessAghanaglack Dual Court Tomb
Enniskillen, County Fermanagh
A Fermanagh burial monument with two chambered galleries arranged back to back. Excavation recovered burnt human remains, Neolithic pottery and later…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessAnnaghmare Court Tomb — The Black Castle
Newry, County Armagh
A well-preserved court tomb near Crossmaglen, known locally as the Black Castle. Excavation in 1963–64 exposed its forecourt and masonry, leaving…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessArbor Low Henge and Stone Circle
Monyash, Derbyshire
A Peak District henge enclosing fallen limestone stones, with a later burial mound added to its bank. The complex developed through successive…
Henge / Stone CircleOpen file
High StrangenessArthur's Stone, Herefordshire
Dorstone, Herefordshire
A Herefordshire chambered tomb with a massive capstone and later Arthurian associations. Recent excavation has identified an earlier stone monument…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessAvebury Henge and Stone Circles
Avebury, Wiltshire
A vast Neolithic bank-and-ditch enclosure containing stone circles. Medieval destruction, antiquarian recording and Alexander Keiller’s…
Henge / Stone CircleOpen file
High StrangenessBallowall Barrow — Carn Gluze
St Just, Cornwall
A complex burial monument on the Cornish coast, exposed beneath mining debris in 1878. Its surviving stonework reflects prehistoric construction…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessBallykeel Dolmen and Cairn
Newry, County Armagh
A portal tomb near Mullaghbawn, traditionally called the Hag’s Chair. Its capstone stands at the end of a long cairn whose surviving edge stones and…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessBallymacdermot Court Tomb
Newry, County Armagh
A Neolithic court tomb on the southern slopes of Ballymacdermot Mountain near Newry. Three burial chambers survive in a setting overlooking the Ring…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessBarclodiad y Gawres Chambered Tomb
Llanfaelog, Gwynedd
A coastal Anglesey chambered tomb containing carved stones with spirals and zigzags. Its surviving prehistoric passage and chamber lie beneath a…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessBelas Knap Long Barrow
Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
A Cotswold communal tomb with four burial chambers and an impressive false entrance. Its surviving appearance reflects both prehistoric construction…
Burial BarrowOpen file
High StrangenessBlackhammer Chambered Cairn
Brinian, Orkney
A Rousay stalled cairn divided into seven compartments. Its decorated outer masonry, internal alterations and deliberate entrance blocking record…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file- High Strangeness
Blakey Howe — Cockpit Hill
Rosedale Abbey, North Yorkshire
A prominent barrow near the Lion Inn, recorded as Blakenhow in 1200. Its excavation hollow may later have hosted cockfighting, while a boundary stone…
Burial BarrowOpen file 
High StrangenessBodowyr Chambered Tomb
Llangaffo, Gwynedd
A small Anglesey tomb with a distinctive mushroom-shaped capstone. Its original mound has disappeared, and the absence of excavation leaves its…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessBrent Knoll Hillfort
East Brent, Somerset
A hillfort above the Somerset Levels with evidence of Iron Age and Roman activity. Medieval quarrying altered its interior, while the date of parts…
HillfortOpen file
High StrangenessBryn Celli Ddu Chambered Tomb
Llanddaniel Fab, Gwynedd
An Anglesey passage tomb constructed on an earlier henge and stone circle. Excavation revealed human remains and a decorated stone; the passage…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessCairnpapple Hill Prehistoric Ceremonial Complex
Torphichen, West Lothian
A West Lothian hilltop where early activity, a henge and successive burial cairns occupied the same place. Excavation in 1947–48 revealed a long…
Henge / Stone CircleOpen file
High StrangenessCamster Long Chambered Cairn
Thrumster, Caithness
A long cairn in Caithness containing two burial chambers. It may incorporate earlier round cairns; excavation and modern reconstruction have shaped…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessCamster Round Chambered Cairn
Thrumster, Caithness
A round chambered cairn in Caithness with exceptionally well-preserved internal stonework. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century excavations recovered…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessCapel Garmon Chambered Tomb
Capel Garmon, Clwyd
A Neolithic tomb near Betws-y-Coed with three burial chambers and a five-metre passage. Its architectural links with the Cotswold-Severn tradition…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file- High Strangeness
Castlerigg Stone Circle and Possible Burial Mounds
Keswick, Cumbria
A stone circle above Keswick containing two small, unexcavated mounds. Their appearance resembles early Bronze Age barrows, but a burial function has…
Ceremonial ComplexOpen file 
High StrangenessClava Cairns — North-East Passage Cairn
Newlands of Culloden, Inverness
The north-east passage cairn within the Balnuaran of Clava cemetery. Its chamber, surrounding stone circle and south-west-facing passage belong to a…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessCorrimony Chambered Cairn
Braefield, Inverness
A Highland passage cairn encircled by standing stones. A cup-marked slab and traces of a crouched burial survive in a monument whose date is inferred…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessCuween Hill Chambered Cairn
Finstown, Orkney
An Orkney chambered tomb with four cells opening from a central room. Investigations found human remains and dog skulls, while later burials suggest…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessDin Dryfol Chambered Tomb
Bethel, Gwynedd
An Anglesey burial complex extending along a narrow rocky ridge. Surviving chambers and entrance stones indicate several phases of construction, with…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessDuggleby Howe and Surrounding Enclosure
Duggleby, North Yorkshire
A major Neolithic round barrow associated with a large interrupted-ditch enclosure. Reassessment of nineteenth-century discoveries introduced…
Burial BarrowOpen file
High StrangenessDunvegan Castle
Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides
Dunvegan Castle, the ancient seat of Clan MacLeod on the Isle of Skye, is steeped in legend and haunting. For centuries, it has echoed with the…
CastleOpen file
High StrangenessFive Wells Chambered Tomb
Taddington, Derbyshire
A Derbyshire tomb with two back-to-back stone chambers and opposing passages. Stone removal and repeated excavation exposed its structure, while…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessFlockrake Noddle Round Barrow
Hackness, North Yorkshire
An earth-and-stone barrow overlooking the eastern edge of the Hackness Hills. A central hollow records partial excavation, while its surrounding…
Burial BarrowOpen file
High StrangenessFormer RAF Bempton
Bempton, East Riding of Yorkshire
RAF Bempton, a former cliff-top radar and Cold War listening station, now lies abandoned above the North Sea. Its empty bunkers, echoing corridors…
Former RAF BaseOpen file
High StrangenessFormer RAF Catfoss
Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire
Once a wartime training airfield and later a nuclear missile installation, RAF Catfoss occupies an isolated stretch of the Holderness countryside…
Former RAF BaseOpen file
High StrangenessGiant's Ring, Ballynahatty
Dunmurry, County Antrim
A large Neolithic henge near Belfast enclosing the exposed stone chamber of a prehistoric tomb. Its great circular earthwork and central monument are…
Henge / Stone CircleOpen file
High StrangenessGib Hill Barrow
Monyash, Derbyshire
A layered burial monument beside Arbor Low. A later bowl barrow was built over an earlier oval mound, preserving evidence of successive phases of…
Burial BarrowOpen file- High Strangeness
Hambledon Hill Neolithic Earthwork Complex
Shroton, Dorset
A major Neolithic complex containing two causewayed enclosures, long barrows and additional earthworks. Excavation revealed evidence for gatherings…
Causewayed EnclosureOpen file 
High StrangenessHob Hurst's House
Beeley, Derbyshire
An unusual rectangular burial monument on Harland Edge. Thomas Bateman found cremated remains in 1853, but its square plan makes its date and…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file- High Strangeness
Howdale Moor Cairnfield and Field System
Ravenscar, North Yorkshire
A prehistoric farming landscape with clearance cairns, low field banks and a carved rock. Some cairns may also have served for burial, but a funerary…
Field System / CairnfieldOpen file 
High StrangenessKing Arthur's Round Table Henge
Brougham, Cumbria
A prehistoric henge near Eamont Bridge whose Arthurian name is much later than the earthwork. Road building removed part of the enclosure, and…
Henge / Stone CircleOpen file- High Strangeness
Knockoneill Court Tomb
Magherafelt, County Derry / Londonderry
A court tomb near Swatragh with an unusual subsidiary chamber entered from the side. Excavations revealed cremated remains and Bronze Age pottery…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file 
High StrangenessKnowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn
Brinian, Orkney
A communal tomb on Rousay with a passage and divided burial chamber. Excavation recovered the remains of at least twenty-nine people alongside deer…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessLady Grace's Ride Round Barrow
Scalby, North Yorkshire
An earth-and-stone burial mound beside Lady Grace’s Ride on Row Brow. Its height varies with the slope, and its surrounding ditch survives beneath…
Burial BarrowOpen file
High StrangenessLegananny Dolmen
Ballynahinch, County Down
A County Down portal tomb whose capstone rests on three tall uprights. Only traces of its former cairn survive; early accounts and photographs…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessLittle Blakey Howe
Rosedale Abbey, North Yorkshire
A small barrow south of the Lion Inn, topped by a later boundary stone. Its modest prehistoric mound survives among numerous spoil heaps from…
Burial BarrowOpen file
High StrangenessLligwy — Llugwy Chambered Tomb
Llanallgo, Gwynedd
An Anglesey chambered tomb dominated by a broad, heavy capstone. Excavation in 1908 recovered human and animal remains alongside pottery, shells and…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file- High Strangeness
Loft Howe Square Barrow
Sawdon, North Yorkshire
A rare surviving square burial mound in Wykeham Forest. Its flat-topped earthwork and surrounding ditch remain visible, although an earlier partial…
Burial BarrowOpen file 
High StrangenessMaeshowe Chambered Cairn
Stenness, Orkney
A monumental Orkney chambered tomb whose passage admits the setting sun around midwinter. Norse visitors later broke into the cairn and carved runic…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessMaiden Castle Hillfort, Dorset
Winterborne St Martin, Dorset
A Dorset hillfort built over a much older ceremonial landscape. Successive Iron Age ramparts enclosed a substantial settlement, while excavation…
HillfortOpen file
High StrangenessMayburgh Henge
Eamont Bridge, Cumbria
A monumental enclosure near Penrith, built with an unusual bank of river pebbles. One standing stone survives inside; eighteenth-century accounts…
Henge / Stone CircleOpen file- High Strangeness
Metlow Hill Round Barrow, Bempton
Bempton, East Riding of Yorkshire
A round barrow on a low rise near Bempton. Greenwell’s excavation revealed a child’s grave with a food vessel and a collection of flint tools within…
Burial BarrowOpen file 
High StrangenessMidhowe Chambered Cairn
Brinian, Orkney
A large stalled cairn on Rousay containing a long chamber divided by upright slabs. Excavations found numerous human remains and evidence of repeated…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessMinning Low Chambered Tomb and Barrows
Parwich, Derbyshire
A Peak District burial complex containing a multi-phase chambered cairn and two later bowl barrows. Excavation revealed prehistoric burials and…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessNether Largie South Cairn
Slockavullin, Argyll and Bute
The earliest cairn in Kilmartin Glen’s linear burial cemetery. Its Neolithic chamber was originally enclosed by a long mound, later enlarged into a…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessNotgrove Long Barrow
Notgrove, Gloucestershire
A Cotswold burial mound with evidence of successive architectural phases. Excavations revealed an early dome-shaped chamber, a later gallery and side…
Burial BarrowOpen file
High StrangenessNympsfield Long Barrow
Nympsfield, Gloucestershire
A roofless Cotswold chambered tomb whose exposed layout reveals its burial gallery. Excavations recovered human remains and pottery, including…
Burial BarrowOpen file
High StrangenessOld Oswestry Hillfort
Oswestry, Shropshire
A Shropshire hillfort with multiple ramparts constructed in successive phases. Excavation revealed settlement and trading evidence, while Wat’s Dyke…
HillfortOpen file- High Strangeness
Oxmoor and Givendale Dikes
Allerston, North Yorkshire
Three connected prehistoric boundaries in the Tabular Hills, incorporating multiple banks and ditches. A round barrow, medieval route, former rabbit…
Linear EarthworkOpen file 
High StrangenessPentre Ifan Chambered Tomb
Eglwyswrw, Dyfed
A Pembrokeshire chambered tomb dominated by a massive capstone on upright supports. Its original covering mound has disappeared, leaving the stone…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessRing of Brodgar Stone Circle and Henge
Stenness, Orkney
A great Orkney stone circle surrounded by a rock-cut ditch. Its construction date and rituals remain uncertain, while early records, folklore and…
Henge / Stone CircleOpen file
High StrangenessRobin Hood's Butts, Stoupe Brow
Ravenscar, North Yorkshire
Three round barrows arranged in a triangle above the coast. Greenwell’s investigations in the 1890s recovered cremation burials and grave goods…
Burial BarrowOpen file- High Strangeness
Round Barrow North of Lilla Cross
Goathland, North Yorkshire
A low burial mound thirty metres north of Lilla Cross, separated from it by the Saltersgate track. This scheduled barrow is a distinct feature from…
Burial BarrowOpen file 
High StrangenessScamridge Dikes
Sawdon, North Yorkshire
An extensive system of parallel banks and ditches between Troutsdale and Kirk Dale. Later routes, quarrying and lime burning altered the earthworks…
Linear EarthworkOpen file
High StrangenessSeamer Beacon Barrows and Baron Albert's Tower
Scalby, North Yorkshire
Three burial mounds arranged around a prominent natural hillock. A nineteenth-century folly altered the highest mound, while the lower barrows…
Burial BarrowOpen file- High Strangeness
Seamer Moor Hill Linear Earthwork
Irton, North Yorkshire
A substantial boundary earthwork near Scarborough with a central bank, flanking ditches and lower outer banks. It forms part of a wider group of…
Linear EarthworkOpen file 
High StrangenessSharp Howes
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Hidden among the fields of the Yorkshire Wolds, Sharp Howes is an ancient burial cemetery containing prehistoric mounds excavated by Victorian…
Burial BarrowOpen file
High StrangenessSilbury Hill
Beckhampton, Wiltshire
An enormous artificial mound in the Avebury landscape. Built in the late Neolithic, it has resisted attempts to explain its purpose and should not be…
Prehistoric MoundOpen file- High Strangeness
Silpho Moor Square Barrow, South-East of Breckenhurst
Hackness, North Yorkshire
A small square burial mound on Silpho Moor, altered by forestry ploughing. Its ditch is buried and its outline has become rounded, but the record…
Burial BarrowOpen file 
High StrangenessSimon Howe Cairn, Barrows and Stone Row
Goathland, North Yorkshire
A ridge-top cairn accompanied by two round barrows, a standing stone and a stone row. Extensive flint finds show that people returned to this…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessSpeeton Moor Linear Earthwork
Speeton, North Yorkshire
A coastal boundary recorded on Knox’s 1821 map and in an archaeological survey. Parts were recorded as ditch cropmarks and parts as surviving…
Linear EarthworkOpen file
High StrangenessSt Lythans Chambered Tomb
St Nicholas, South Glamorgan
An exposed stone chamber near Cardiff that once stood within a substantial cairn. Research in 2012 clarified the lost mound, while the unexcavated…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessStones of Stenness Henge
Stenness, Orkney
An early Orkney henge with standing stones, a buried rock-cut ditch and a central hearth. Excavated material provides evidence of activity inside the…
Henge / Stone CircleOpen file
High StrangenessStoney Littleton Long Barrow
Wellow, Somerset
A Somerset chambered tomb with a central passage and seven burial chambers. Investigated in 1816 and repaired in the nineteenth century, it also has…
Burial BarrowOpen file
High StrangenessSutton Hoo Royal Burial Ground
Woodbridge, Suffolk
An Anglo-Saxon mound cemetery famous for the ship burial discovered in 1939. Later excavations exposed additional high-status graves and evidence…
Burial BarrowOpen file
High StrangenessTaversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn
Brinian, Orkney
An unusual two-level tomb on Rousay, discovered during work for a garden seat in 1898. Excavation identified separate chambers and passages…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file- High Strangeness
The Bull Ring Henge and Adjacent Barrows
Dove Holes, Derbyshire
A Peak District henge beside a separate burial mound that developed in more than one phase. Excavation and survey have investigated the earthworks…
Henge / Stone CircleOpen file 
High StrangenessThe Sandown Clown Sighting
Sandown, Isle of Wight
In May 1973, two children exploring marshland near Sandown Airport reportedly encountered a seven-foot humanoid with a pointed yellow hat, triangular…
Woodland / ForestOpen file
High StrangenessThe Three Tremblers Round Barrows
Sawdon, North Yorkshire
Three adjacent burial mounds in Wykeham Forest, each disturbed by earlier excavation. The largest contained a stone-lined burial compartment, and two…
Burial BarrowOpen file
High StrangenessTinkinswood Chambered Tomb
St Nicholas, South Glamorgan
A Vale of Glamorgan communal tomb with an exceptionally large capstone. Excavation recovered many human remains and artefacts, while later folklore…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessTrefignath Chambered Tomb Complex
Trearddur, Gwynedd
A three-phase burial complex near Holyhead. Its western, central and eastern tombs were built successively, preserving evidence of an expanding…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessUffington Castle
Woolstone, Oxfordshire
An Iron Age hillfort on White Horse Hill, bounded by chalk ramparts and a ditch. Archaeological evidence suggests activity within the enclosure…
HillfortOpen file
High StrangenessUley Long Barrow — Hetty Pegler's Tump
Nympsfield, Gloucestershire
A Cotswold communal tomb overlooking the Severn Valley. Its familiar name recalls a seventeenth-century landowner, while the chambers and mound…
Burial BarrowOpen file
High StrangenessUnstan Chambered Cairn
Clouston, Orkney
An Orkney communal tomb combining a divided rectangular chamber with a separate side cell. Its distinctive pottery finds gave their name to Unstan…
Burial Cairn / TombOpen file
High StrangenessWayland's Smithy
Ashbury, Oxfordshire
A two-phase Neolithic tomb beside the Ridgeway. Its ancient burial history is distinct from the later legend of Wayland, the supernatural smith…
Burial BarrowOpen file
High StrangenessWest Kennet Long Barrow
Avebury, Wiltshire
A Neolithic communal tomb near Avebury, with stone burial chambers beneath a long mound. Excavations revealed human remains and grave goods; its…
Burial BarrowOpen file
High StrangenessWindmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure
Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire
A major early Neolithic enclosure near Avebury, formed by interrupted rings of ditches. Excavations revealed pottery, tools and human and animal…
Causewayed EnclosureOpen file
High StrangenessWindmill Tump — Rodmarton Long Barrow
Rodmarton, Gloucestershire
A Cotswold long barrow with side-accessed burial chambers and a false entrance. Investigations and storm damage revealed human remains and…
Burial BarrowOpen file
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