Stonehenge Cursus

Stonehenge Cursus is a settlement in United Kingdom, Neolithic cursus monument. Pyramason catalogues it as PYR-102598 at 51.18600, -1.82600 (51°11'09.6"N 1°49'33.6"W).

Recorded heritage designations: World Heritage Site, part of a Scheduled Monument.

There are 233 other catalogued sites within 5 km of it, 887 within 25 km and 2,035 within 50 km. That density is itself the finding: this is not an isolated monument but part of a worked landscape.

The record

What is around it

• The Cursus, two round barrows situated within its western end, and a long barrow0.1 km
• A twin bell barrow and a bell barrow forming the eastern part of The Cursus roun0.3 km
• Three bowl barrows 200m north of The Cursus0.4 km
• Bowl barrow 200m north of The Cursus0.5 km
• A bowl barrow and three bell barrows forming part of The Cursus round barrow cem0.5 km
• Bowl barrow 160m south of Fargo Road, forming part of a nucleated round barrow c0.6 km
• Six of the eight round barrows making up a nucleated round barrow cemetery 100m 0.6 km
• Three bowl barrows 120m south of Fargo Road0.6 km
• Bowl barrow 100m south of Fargo Road0.6 km
• Two bowl barrows 250m north of The Cursus0.7 km

Further reading

English Wikipedia  ·  Wikidata Q7619217