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- Cursuses are monumental Neolithic structures resembling ditches or trenches in the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. Relics found within them indicate...
- from the Latin for 'racecourse'. Early antiquarians who first discovered cursuses believed them to be Roman racing tracks. Radiocarbon dating of a red deer...
- broadly east/west alignment, 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-west of Ripon. Cursuses are perhaps the most enigmatic of ancient monuments. They typically comprise...
- purposes. The many other prehistoric monuments in the area include four cursuses, three of which appear to converge on the site of the monolith. Sir William...
- eastern England. By 3000 BCE, the long barrows, causewa**** enclosures, and cursuses that had predominated in the Early Neolithic were no longer built, and...
- prehistoric features. In Britain, for instance, Neolithic earthen avenues called cursuses link burial mounds: these features can run for considerable distances,...
- eastern England. By 3000 BCE, the long barrows, causewa**** enclosures, and cursuses which had predominated in the Early Neolithic were no longer built, and...
- monuments, as it varies depending on the purpose. There are few entrances to cursuses enclosures, but most often seen as gaps along the side of the earthwork...
- on the sides of the Great Wold Valley. Cursuses A and C cross the Gypsey Race, whilst the other ends of cursuses B and D probably lie under the village...
- surrounding landscape has several prehistoric monuments, including two cursuses and the Twelve Apostles stone circle, which suggests a continuity of sacred...