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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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    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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    that the cursūs were used as processional routes. They are often aligned on and respect the position of pre-existing long barrows and bank barrows and appear...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    bowl barrow, saucer barrow and disc barrow. Denmark has many tumuli, including round barrows. The round barrows here were built over a very broad span...
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