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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Enclosure (archaeology) (section Cursus Monuments)
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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