Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Helsby Hillfort

Helsby Hillfort (Promontory fort on Helsby Hill, NHLE 1013292) is an Iron Age bivallate promontory hillfort on Helsby Hill, Cheshire, a scheduled monument with a 1.9 ha interior, stone-revetted timber-laced ramparts, and an inturned western entrance.

Helsinki Cathedral

Helsinki Cathedral (Helsingin tuomiokirkko), formerly St. Nicholas' Church, is Helsinki's neoclassical Lutheran cathedral on Senate Square, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel, completed by Ernst Lohrmann, and inaugurated in 1852.

Hemavati Mound

Hemavati Mound: protected archaeological site at Hemavati (ancient Henjeru), Sri Sathya Sai district, Andhra Pradesh; Nolamba dynasty capital 8th-11th century, with protected group of old temples, Nolamba sculptures, and about 20 inscriptions under ASI Amaravati Circle.

Hembury

Hembury (Hembury Fort, Hembury Hillfort) is a multivallate Iron Age hillfort near Payhembury, Devon, over a Neolithic causewayed enclosure dated about 3700 BC, briefly occupied by the Roman army in the mid-first century AD, and owned since 2023 by the Devon Archaeological Society.

Hemsworth

Hemsworth (East Hemsworth Roman Villa, Witchampton, Dorset): Roman villa discovered 1831, excavated by G.H. Engleheart 1905, known for Venus and water-god mosaics, hypocaust, winged-corridor plan, scheduled monument DO 684 near Badbury Rings.

Henchir el-Hadjar

Henchir el-Hadjar (RLT041), a Late Roman fortlet of Africa Proconsularis in southern Tunisia near the Tebaga frontier, about 0.15 ha with ashlar towers; the name also labels a dolmen necropolis at Enfida and a Gabès site.

Henchir Guessès

Henchir Guessès, an archaeological site in Numidia, eastern Algeria, near the Aurès; a large late Roman/Byzantine fortified enclosure with citadel, rounded triangular towers, aqueduct, tombs, and three churches, cited as Barrington Atlas 34 E2.

Henge

Henge: a Neolithic ceremonial enclosure of Britain and Ireland, coined by Thomas Kendrick in the 1930s, defined by a ditch inside the bank; about 50 certain English examples, mostly built 2800-2200 BC, including Avebury and Durrington Walls.

Hengistbury Head

Hengistbury Head, Dorset: a coastal promontory between Bournemouth and Christchurch, a multi-period archaeological landscape and major late Iron Age port of trade, excavated by Bushe-Fox (1911-12) and Cunliffe (1980s).

Hengshui Wildlife Park

Hengshui Wildlife Park (衡水野生动物园), a national second-class wildlife park in Wuyi County, Hengshui, Hebei; opened October 1, 2018; drive-through feeding, 76 species, 29-30 yuan tickets, 3A/4A-track ratings.

Henley Wood

Henley Wood, Yatton, North Somerset: Romano-Celtic temple complex and late/post-Roman cemetery excavated 1962-69 by Ernest Greenfield, published 1996 (CBA Report 99). Distinct from Henley Wood, Chelsham, Surrey, and High Wood, Harpsden.

Henry VII Chapel

Henry VII Chapel, the Henry VII Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey, is a Perpendicular Gothic royal burial chapel begun 1503, consecrated 1516, famed for its fan vault with pendants and Torrigiano's gilt bronze tomb of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.

Hephaisteion

Hephaisteion (Ηφαιστείον), the Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane on Agoraios Kolonos, Athens; Doric peripteral 6x13 temple, best-preserved ancient Greek temple, formerly called Theseion, later church of St. George.

Hera temple

Hera temple: Greek temples dedicated to Hera, notably the Heraion at Olympia (early Doric, wooden-column tradition challenged in 2016), Metaponto's Temple A and Tavole Palatine, and the two Hera temples at Paestum.

Heracleion

Heracleion, known to Egyptians as Thonis, was an ancient Egyptian port city at the mouth of the Nile, rediscovered underwater in Aboukir Bay in 2000.

Heraclia Caccabaria

Heraclia Caccabaria, an ancient port in Narbonensian Gaul identified with Cavalaire-sur-Mer, France, named in the Antonine Maritime Itinerary; etymologies debated, possibly Heraclia Cavalaria from Heracles and pre-Latin kab-.

Heraion (Greece)

Heraion of Samos (Greece): major Greek sanctuary of Hera in the Khora plain, 6 km from Pythagoreion; home of the Hekatompedos, the Rhoikos Ionic temple, and the 155-column Great Temple; UNESCO site.

Herakles, T.

Herakles, T. is the Barrington Atlas gazetteer designation for a temple of Herakles (Herakleion), covering rare built cult places of the hero-god at Kleonai, Akragas, Kos, Thebes, Gadir, and Rome.

Herculaneum

Herculaneum (Ercolano), Roman town buried by Vesuvius' 24 August AD 79 eruption under pyroclastic flows, better preserved than Pompeii; ~4.5 ha open, ~300 shoreline skeletons, Villa of the Papyri with ~1,800 carbonized scrolls, UNESCO site since 1997.

Hereford Cathedral

Hereford Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Mary and St Ethelbert, is a Grade I listed Church of England cathedral in Hereford, home to Mappa Mundi and the world's largest surviving chained library.

Herefordshire Konservat-Lagerstätte Formation

Herefordshire Konservat-Lagerstätte: Silurian (Wenlock, ~430 Ma) fossil deposit in the Welsh Borderland, England, preserving soft-bodied marine invertebrates as 3D calcite infills in nodules in volcanic ash; studied by serial grinding and virtual reconstruction.

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Heritage at Risk register

The Heritage at Risk register is an annual list by Historic England of England's designated historic buildings, monuments, and places considered at risk of loss.

Heritage Bank Center

Heritage Bank Center, formerly Riverfront Coliseum and US Bank Arena, is Cincinnati's 17,556-seat downtown riverfront arena, opened 1975, home of the ECHL Cincinnati Cyclones and subject of a new-arena replacement debate.

Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija

Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija: serial UNESCO World Heritage Site (2012, criteria ii and iv) joining the world's two largest historic mercury mines, Almadén in Spain and Idrija in Slovenia, tied to New World silver amalgamation.

Heritage Park (Bangladesh)

Heritage Park, Bangladesh: theme park in Ashulia, Savar, Dhaka, built by Concord Group in 2004 beside Fantasy Kingdom, with miniature replicas of Ahsan Manzil, Sat Gambuj Mosque, and other heritage sites; distinct from Heritage Park, Chengi in Khagrachhari and the Kuakata resort.

Heritage registers in Belgium

Heritage registers in Belgium: regional inventories and protection lists (lijst onroerend erfgoed, bewaarlijst, liste de sauvegarde) maintained separately by Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels-Capital under the 1931 law and regional decrees.

Heritage USA

Heritage USA was Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Christian theme park and resort in Fort Mill, South Carolina (1978–1989), built by the PTL Club ministry; once the third most visited US theme park, it collapsed in the 1987 Bakker scandal and PTL bankruptcy.

Hermes and Aphrodite Sanctuary

Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou (Kato Syme), a Minoan-to-Roman cult site on Mt. Dikte, Crete, at 1,200 m altitude, excavated by Angeliki Lebessi from 1972, with continuous worship ca. 2000 BC to 7th century AD.

Hermeskeil Roman Camp

Hermeskeil Roman Camp (Militärlager Hermeskeil), a late-Republican Roman military fortress near Hermeskeil, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, built during Caesar's Gallic Wars; the only securely dated Gallic Wars camp, holding three then two legions in 53 and 51 BC.