Machrie Moor - because it has everything you could need - trek to get to, nice walk, and an example of pretty much most types of circle.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/161/machrie_moor.html
Stenness - a site that I literally had to be dragged away from, just so beautiful, and it's neighbouring monuments aren't bad either.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/389/standing_stones_of_stenness.html
Drizzlecombe - other half is from Dartmoor, but had never heard of it. Just so much there to see, from when Dartmoor was civilised.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1371/drizzlecombe_megalithic_complex.html
Can I add an honourable mention for Scorhill (in the snow), Lligwy and in fact all the Anglesey monuments, Rousay sites (double-decker burial chamber, and the biggest chambered cairn you'll ever see). Generally. most sites on islands. And hunebedden.
God I wish I'd never bought this book, and found the website. Might have gone on normal holidays like normal people. To Ibiza, rather than a tent in Mull in the rain.
Sam
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