The Stonehenge Cursus (sometimes known as the Greater Cursus) is a large Neolithic cursus monument on Salisbury plain, near to Stonehenge in Wiltshire...
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the islands. The name 'cursus' was suggested in 1723 by William Stukeley, the antiquarian, who compared the Stonehenge cursus to a Roman chariot-racing...
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barrow tombs in the surrounding landscape. In approximately 3500 BC, a Stonehenge Cursus was built 2,300 feet (700 m) north of the site as the first farmers...
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and private individuals and farmers. Stonehenge Stonehenge Avenue Stonehenge Cursus The Lesser Cursus Cursus Barrows Durrington Walls Woodhenge Cuckoo...
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Cursus Barrows is the name given to a Neolithic and Bronze Age round barrow cemetery lying mostly south of the western end of the Stonehenge Cursus,...
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scheduled). These monuments include the enormous earthwork known as the Stonehenge Cursus, the Avenue, Woodhenge and Durrington Walls, as well as numerous burial...
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Thornborough Henges (section Cursus)
Yorkshire, England. The site includes many large ancient structures including a cursus, henges, burial grounds and settlements. They are thought to have been part...
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felt that a bluestone monument had earlier stood near the nearby Stonehenge Cursus and been moved to their current site from there. If Mercer's theory...
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The Dorset Cursus is a Neolithic cursus monument that spans across 10 km (6¼ miles) of the chalk downland of Cranborne Chase in east Dorset, United Kingdom...
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the eastern end of the Stonehenge Cursus, Long Barrow 42 at the eastern terminal of the Cursus, the field to the west of Stonehenge, and a re-excavation...
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31 Dec, 23:59:47 5.5 Early Bronze Age; Proto-writing; Building of Stonehenge Cursus 31 Dec, 23:59:48 5.0 First Dynasty of Egypt, Early Dynastic period...
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of the Sweet Track Knowth interior passage Reconstructed buildings at Stonehenge Model of a Neolithic house, Ireland Adkins, Adkins and Leitch 2008. p...
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located within the settlement. Robin Hood's Ball, the Stonehenge Cursus and the Lesser Cursus lie close to the garrison. The first modern settlement...
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J. F. S. Stone (category Archaeologists of Stonehenge)
at Stonehenge and the Woodhenge area. Stone was born in Bath, Somerset. In 1947, Stone excavated the first ever trench across the Stonehenge cursus, at...
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and exits. The terminal point of a cursus is an area that is either square or rounded in shape. The Newgrange cursus can be found approximately 100m east...
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include Neolithic monuments such as a cursus (e.g., at Thornborough Henges the central henge overlies the cursus), or a long barrow, such as the West Kennet...
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Robin Hood's Ball (category Sites associated with Stonehenge)
constructed, none of the monuments to the south such as the Stonehenge Cursus, Durrington Walls, or Stonehenge itself had yet been constructed. However, there may...
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William Stukeley (category Archaeologists of Stonehenge)
constructed. Stukeley was the first person to identify the Stonehenge Avenue and Stonehenge Cursus, giving these features the names by which they are now...
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other contemporary monuments that provides diagnosis. Avenues differ from cursus monuments, in that the latter also have earthworks at their terminal ends...
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Julian Thomas (category Archaeologists of Stonehenge)
Geographic Society. During excavations of sites surrounding Stonehenge – including Stonehenge Cursus, the Avenue and Woodhenge – Thomas found evidence of a...
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in Scotland. J. F. S. Stone excavates the first trench across the Stonehenge cursus. I. A. Richmond - Roman Britain (London: Collins). April: Previous...
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Vespasian's Camp (category Sites associated with Stonehenge)
"homebase". Stonehenge Cursus The Avenue Durrington Walls Woodhenge Vespasian's Camp Normanton Down Barrows Bluestonehenge Lesser Cursus Cursus Barrows King...
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Archaeoacoustics (section Stonehenge)
on the acoustics of numerous archaeological sites, including that of Stonehenge, and investigated numerous chamber tombs and other stone circles. Rupert...
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adjacent barrows, and the western tip of the Greater Cursus (which predates Stonehenge) and the nearby Cursus Barrows. North of the village, on the slopes of...
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monuments and features including; the River Avon, Durrington Walls, the Cursus, the Avenue, Woodhenge, burial mounds, and nearby standing stones. In August...
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used in 1849 by the British antiquarian Algernon Herbert in reference to Stonehenge and derives from the Ancient Greek words "mega" for great and "lithos"...
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inhumation. With the revised Stonehenge chronology, this is after the Sarsen Circle and trilithons were erected at Stonehenge. Several regions of origin...
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Rollright Stones, and elements within the ring of standing stones at Stonehenge. Scattered examples exist from other parts of Europe. Later, during the...
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style soon spread and it was used by the builders of the first phase of Stonehenge. Grooved ware pottery has been found in abundance in excavations at Durrington...
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new type of monument, the cursus, became popular. All this long preceded the earliest henge monuments, including Stonehenge I. Examples of causewayed...
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