The Stonehenge Cursus (sometimes known as the Greater Cursus) is a large Neolithic cursus monument on Salisbury plain, near to Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. It is roughly 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) long and between 100 metres (330 ft) and 150 metres (490 ft) wide. Excavations in 2007 dated the construction of the earthwork to between 3630 and 3375 BCE,[3] several hundred years before the earliest phase of Stonehenge in 3000 BC. The cursus, along with adjacent barrows and the nearby 'Lesser Cursus' are part of the National Trust's Stonehenge Landscape property, and is within the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site.
^Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites". whc.unesco.org.
^Historic England. "The Cursus, two round barrows situated within its western end, and a long barrow situated at its eastern end (1009132)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
^"Stonehenge Riverside Project: 2007 Excavations". shef.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 24 December 2008.
The StonehengeCursus (sometimes known as the Greater Cursus) is a large Neolithic cursus monument on Salisbury plain, near to Stonehenge in Wiltshire...
the islands. The name 'cursus' was suggested in 1723 by William Stukeley, the antiquarian, who compared the Stonehengecursus to a Roman chariot-racing...
barrow tombs in the surrounding landscape. In approximately 3500 BC, a StonehengeCursus was built 2,300 feet (700 m) north of the site as the first farmers...
scheduled). These monuments include the enormous earthwork known as the StonehengeCursus, the Avenue, Woodhenge and Durrington Walls, as well as numerous burial...
felt that a bluestone monument had earlier stood near the nearby StonehengeCursus and been moved to their current site from there. If Mercer's theory...
Yorkshire, England. The site includes many large ancient structures including a cursus, henges, burial grounds and settlements. They are thought to have been part...
the eastern end of the StonehengeCursus, Long Barrow 42 at the eastern terminal of the Cursus, the field to the west of Stonehenge, and a re-excavation...
31 Dec, 23:59:47 5.5 Early Bronze Age; Proto-writing; Building of StonehengeCursus 31 Dec, 23:59:48 5.0 First Dynasty of Egypt, Early Dynastic period...
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...
of the Sweet Track Knowth interior passage Reconstructed buildings at Stonehenge Model of a Neolithic house, Ireland Adkins, Adkins and Leitch 2008. p...
and exits. The terminal point of a cursus is an area that is either square or rounded in shape. The Newgrange cursus can be found approximately 100m east...
constructed. Stukeley was the first person to identify the Stonehenge Avenue and StonehengeCursus, giving these features the names by which they are now...
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...
Geographic Society. During excavations of sites surrounding Stonehenge – including StonehengeCursus, the Avenue and Woodhenge – Thomas found evidence of a...
on the acoustics of numerous archaeological sites, including that of Stonehenge, and investigated numerous chamber tombs and other stone circles. Rupert...
in Scotland. J. F. S. Stone excavates the first trench across the Stonehengecursus. I. A. Richmond - Roman Britain (London: Collins). April: Previous...
adjacent barrows, and the western tip of the Greater Cursus (which predates Stonehenge) and the nearby Cursus Barrows. North of the village, on the slopes of...
monuments and features including; the River Avon, Durrington Walls, the Cursus, the Avenue, Woodhenge, burial mounds, and nearby standing stones. In August...
used in 1849 by the British antiquarian Algernon Herbert in reference to Stonehenge and derives from the Ancient Greek words "mega" for great and "lithos"...
new type of monument, the cursus, became popular. All this long preceded the earliest henge monuments, including Stonehenge I. Examples of causewayed...
inhumation. With the revised Stonehenge chronology, this is after the Sarsen Circle and trilithons were erected at Stonehenge. Several regions of origin...
barrows and chamber tombs for their dead and causewayed camps, henges and cursus monuments. Megaliths found in Europe and the Mediterranean were also erected...
Rollright Stones, and elements within the ring of standing stones at Stonehenge. Scattered examples exist from other parts of Europe. Later, during the...
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