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Stonehenge Lesser Cursus
Dorset Cursus North-Western End Martin Down
North Farm, Cashmoor
Gussage Down Long Barrow 1
Wyke Down Barrow 1
Thickthorn Down Long Barrows
Big Rings Henge
Maumbury Rings Carbon Dates
East End of Greater Cursus
Greater Cursus 1
Greater Cursus 2
Middle of Greater Cursus
West End of Greater Cursus
Cursus is in Neolithic Monuments.
Cursus. A Cursus is a linear feature of banks and ditches ranging from 50m to nearly 10km. The word cursus was given by William Stukeley from the Latin word cursus.
3000BC. Stonehenge Lesser Cursus is a Cursus around 400m long an 60m wide around 750 north-west of the Stonehenge Greater Cursus oriented west-southwest and east-northeast. It is now only visible as a cropmark. The Stonehenge Environs Project discovered Red Deer Antlers picks that dated the monument to 3000BC.