South England Neolithic Cursus

 Dorset Cursus Stonehenge Greater Cursus

South England Neolithic Cursus is in South England Neolithic, Cursus.

Dorset Cursus

Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Stonehenge Cursuses, Stonehenge Greater Cursus

3650BC. Stonehenge Greater Cursus is a Cursus around 3km long, 100-150m wide oriented east-west near to Stonehenge. It was constructed between 3630BC and 3375BC. Its ditches are not uniform. The eastern ditch is fairly shallow, as is the southern ditch - being only 0.75m deep and 1.8m wide at the top. At the western terminal, the ditch is 2m deep and 2.75m wide.

Two artificial pits have been found near the east and west ends of the cursuses that align at sunrise and sunset at midsummer with Stonehenge.

Carbon Date. 2100BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates

Report: antler:red deer

ID: 4998, C14 ID: OxA-1403 Date BP: 4100 +/- 90, Start Date BP: 4010, End BP: 4190

Abstract: Stonehenge Cursus, England

Archaeologist Name: Richards

Reference Name: Archaeometry 31(2), 1989, 207-234

Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767

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Stonehenge by William Stukeley. Table XXX. Prospect of the west end of the Cursus of Stonehenge. A. The eastern meta [Map]. B. the eastern wing of the avenue [Map]. C. Stonehenge.