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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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    Suffolk, the Cleaven Dyke in Perthshire and the Dorset cursus. The Bures cursus and the Metlands cursus are in Bures St Mary, Suffolk, and were detected...
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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 Dorset Cursus, a 10.5-kilometre (6.5 mi) monument for ritual or ceremonial purposes. From 2800 BC onwards Bronze Age farmers cleared Dorset's woodlands...
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  • End". Historic England: Heritage Gateway. Retrieved 2 January 2023. "Dorset Cursus". The Megalithic Portal. Retrieved 3 January 2023. Historic England...
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    often large earthworks of various designs—ditches and banks (like the Dorset Cursus), broad terraces, circular enclosures known as henges, and frequently...
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    monuments from the Neolithic and Early Bronze periods, including the Dorset Cursus, an earthwork 10 km (6 mi) long and 100 m (110 yd) wide, which was oriented...
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    from 10 km (as seen in the Dorset Cursus), to around 50 meters approximately. There is no approximate width of any known cursus monuments, as it varies depending...
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    the long barrow on Thickthorn Down, around 250 meters southeast of the southwest terminal of the Dorset Cursus, similar to the beaker found with Ava....
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  • Hill Corfe Castle Cranborne Manor Creech Barrow Hill Crichel House Dorset Cursus Easton Gardens Edmondsham House Eggardon Hill Fancy's Family Farm Fiddleford...
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