Oblique aerial view.
SC 373310
Description Oblique aerial view.
Date 1984
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 373310
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 22805
Scope and Content Southern cursus, Holywood, Dumfries and Galloway Cursus monuments are found across Britain, chiefly in southern England, though some 30 or so examples are now known in Scotland. Cursus monuments are large rectangular enclosures, some defined by ditches, pits or a bank and ditch. There are two cursus monuments at Holywood forming part of a Neolithic ritual complex with a stone circle known locally as the Twelve Apostles. This aerial view shows the southern cursus which has square terminals (the northern one has rounded terminals). In 1997, excavations at the end of each cursus revealed that both were defined by banks and ditches. Beneath one of the banks, at the southern cursus, were pits containing burnt organic matter and pottery sherds. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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