A view northeast from Gussage Down towards Bottlebush Down - the approximate course of the Cursus banks are superimposed in white. The round barrows on Wyke Down can be seen in the centre of the photo. The cursus has a slight change of direction as it climbs Bottlebush Down and it is thought that the original terminal of the cursus was at this point (and was later extended another 4.5 km north-east to Martin Down).
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. Its extreme length makes it a notable example of this class of linear earthwork; it is better interpreted as a pair of same-length cursus constructed end to end, with the more southerly cursus (the Gussage Cursus) pre-dating the northerly one (the Pentridge Cursus).
Most of the cursus earthworks have long since been destroyed and its course is only visible as soilmarks when conditions are favourable. Looking southwest from the edge of Salisbury Plantation, the course of the northern bank and ditch is visible as a dark stripe gently meandering down the hillslope (towards the right of this photo). The southern bank is just inside the field boundary (towards the left of the photo).
The DorsetCursus is a Neolithic cursus monument that spans across 10 km (6¼ miles) of the chalk downland of Cranborne Chase in east Dorset, United Kingdom...
Suffolk, the Cleaven Dyke in Perthshire and the Dorsetcursus. The Bures cursus and the Metlands cursus are in Bures St Mary, Suffolk, and were detected...
the DorsetCursus, a 10.5-kilometre (6.5 mi) monument for ritual or ceremonial purposes. From 2800 BC onwards Bronze Age farmers cleared Dorset's woodlands...
The Stonehenge Cursus (sometimes known as the Greater Cursus) is a large Neolithic cursus monument on Salisbury plain, near to Stonehenge in Wiltshire...
often large earthworks of various designs—ditches and banks (like the DorsetCursus), broad terraces, circular enclosures known as henges, and frequently...
the long barrow on Thickthorn Down, around 250 meters southeast of the southwest terminal of the DorsetCursus, similar to the beaker found with Ava....
Hill Corfe Castle Cranborne Manor Creech Barrow Hill Crichel House DorsetCursus Easton Gardens Edmondsham House Eggardon Hill Fancy's Family Farm Fiddleford...
indicates that the Knowlton Circles were an important religious centre. DorsetCursus to the northwest of Knowlton Circles Historic England, "Knowlton Circles...
south-east of the south-western terminus of the DorsetCursus. It is thought that the bank at the end of the cursus, which is at an oblique angle to its sides...
A354. Three miles (5 km) further west at Wyke Down it cuts through the DorsetCursus. A series of watchtower sites have been identified along the route....
Examples may be found at Maiden Castle, Broadmayne and Martin's Down in Dorset; and Long Low near Wetton in Staffordshire. Ashbee, Paul (1984). The Earthen...
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 began...
brother, Titus Flavius Sabinus, who had entered public life and pursued the cursus honorum, holding an important military command in the Danube. In preparation...
eccl. Angl. (Oxford, 1844) was reprinted by J. P. Migne in his Patrologiae Cursus, vol. 89 (1850). Aldhelm's fame as a scholar spread to other countries....
on the chalk ridge of Bronkam Hill in Dorset, England. There are numerous round barrows along the south Dorset Ridgeway, including some well-preserved...
and other monument types from Neolithic Europe, such as the bank barrows, cursus monuments, long cairns, and mortuary enclosures. Bank barrows are stylistically...
2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017. Alföldy, Géza (1967). "Ein senatorischer Cursus honorum aus Bracara Augusta, CIL II 2423". Madrider Mitteilungen. 8: 185–195...
161) pub. HMSO London, 1984 ISBN 0 11 242529 1 page 213 Ayelet Even-Ezra, “Cursus: an early thirteenth century source for nocturnal flights and ointments...
the tribunes in that his office was not part of the rather administrative cursus, but normally filled by former centurions. (Modern armies have a similar...
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...
attacks at enclosures. After the 36th century, a new type of monument, the cursus, became popular. All this long preceded the earliest henge monuments, including...
corruption, supported a large regular army with logistics and training. The cursus honorum, a standardized series of military and civil posts organised for...
in Devon. Fairy Toot, oval barrow. Five Marys, group of round barrows in Dorset. Julliberrie's Grave, unchambered earthen Neolithic long barrow. King's...
Objetiva. Rio de Janeiro. 1988 Emotioneel Vaardig Worden. Een persoonlijke cursus om emotioneel intelligent te worden. Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers. Amsterdam...
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