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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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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STONEHENGE Cursus The Avenue Durrington Walls Woodhenge Vespasian's Camp Normanton Down Barrows Bluestonehenge Lesser Cursus Cursus Barrows King Barrow Ridge...
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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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revealed to be located "at the site of Amesbury 50", a round barrow in the Cursus Barrows group. In November 2011, archaeologists from University of Birmingham...
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termed chambered long barrows while those which lack chambers are instead called unchambered long barrows or earthen long barrows. The earliest examples...
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Stonehenge Landscape (category Barrows in England)
known as the Stonehenge Cursus, the Avenue, Woodhenge and Durrington Walls, as well as numerous burial mounds known as barrows. The estate also includes...
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Dorset Cursus, a Neolithic feature. The long barrows are a scheduled monument. The long barrows are situated on a ridge on Thickthorn Down. The barrow to...
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Tumulus (redirect from Barrow (archaeology))
Europe. These later barrows were often built near older Bronze Age barrows. They included a few instances of ship burial. Barrow burial fell out of use...
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