Cursus Barrows is the name given to a Neolithic and Bronze Age round barrow cemetery lying mostly south of the western end of the Stonehenge Cursus,...

The Stonehenge Cursus (sometimes known as the Greater Cursus) is a large Neolithic cursus monument on Salisbury plain, near to Stonehenge in Wiltshire...

that the cursūs were used as processional routes. They are often aligned on and respect the position of pre-existing long barrows and bank barrows and appear...

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...

STONEHENGE Cursus The Avenue Durrington Walls Woodhenge Vespasian's Camp Normanton Down Barrows Bluestonehenge Lesser Cursus Cursus Barrows King Barrow Ridge...

revealed to be located "at the site of Amesbury 50", a round barrow in the Cursus Barrows group. In November 2011, archaeologists from University of Birmingham...

Europe. These later barrows were often built near older Bronze Age barrows. They included a few instances of ship burial. Barrow burial fell out of use...

termed chambered long barrows while those which lack chambers are instead called unchambered long barrows or earthen long barrows. The earliest examples...

known as the Stonehenge Cursus, the Avenue, Woodhenge and Durrington Walls, as well as numerous burial mounds known as barrows. The estate also includes...

Dorset Cursus, a Neolithic feature. The long barrows are a scheduled monument. The long barrows are situated on a ridge on Thickthorn Down. The barrow to...

bowl barrow, saucer barrow and disc barrow. Denmark has many tumuli, including round barrows. The round barrows here were built over a very broad span...

pre-existing barrow. Although burials have been found within the mound, no burial chambers as such have been identified in bank barrows. These ancient...

there are earthen barrows, often linked to timber monuments of which only remnants remain. Related structures include bank barrows, cursus monuments, mortuary...

Stonehenge Cursus The Avenue Durrington Walls Woodhenge Vespasian's Camp Normanton Down Barrows Bluestonehenge Lesser Cursus Cursus Barrows King Barrow Ridge...

Lesser Cursus earthwork and adjacent barrows, and the western tip of the Greater Cursus (which predates Stonehenge) and the nearby Cursus Barrows. North...

least 35 barrows known in the Knowlton Circles Barrow Group including The Great Barrow. It is one of the greatest concentrations of round barrows in Dorset...

they are often known as non-megalithic long barrows or unchambered long cairns. Since the 1980s, barrows of the Passy type, part of the Cerny culture...

Yorkshire, England. The site includes many large ancient structures including a cursus, henges, burial grounds and settlements. They are thought to have been part...

unparalleled grouping of four Neolithic cursus monuments: cursus A, cursus B, cursus C and cursus D. At least one end of each cursus rests on an elevated chalk ridge...

Bank Barrows (multi-period) Bowl Barrows (multi-period) Causewayed Enclosures Concentric Stone Circles Cup and Ring Marked Stones (multi-period) Cursus D-Shaped...

constructed, none of the monuments to the south such as the Stonehenge Cursus, Durrington Walls, or Stonehenge itself had yet been constructed. However...

England. These protected sites date from the Neolithic period and include barrows, stone circles, hill figures, ancient Roman sites, castle ruins, and medieval...

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...

includes large circular hill-top enclosures, causewayed enclosures, long barrows, leaf-shaped arrowheads, and polished stone axes. They raised cattle, sheep...

Monumental architecture Bank barrow Causewayed enclosure Cist Cursus Dolmen Great dolmen Guardian stones Henge Long barrow Megalith Megalithic entrance...

Dating evidence from the [nearby] Aston Cursus, Willington Cursus, and associated earlier and later funerary barrows have normally been attributed to the...

England. These protected sites date from the Neolithic period and include barrows, stone circles, Roman forts, standing stones, 19th century industrial sites...

Monumental architecture Bank barrow Causewayed enclosure Cist Cursus Dolmen Great dolmen Guardian stones Henge Long barrow Megalith Megalithic entrance...

such as a cursus (e.g., at Thornborough Henges the central henge overlies the cursus), or a long barrow, such as the West Kennet Long Barrow at Avebury...

Paris Basin. It is characterized by monumental earth mounds, known as long barrows of the Passy type. The term is derived from the "Parc aux Bœufs" in Cerny...