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Treasured Places
Date 1 August 2007
Event ID 552877
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Treasured Places
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/552877
Holywood South Cursus is a long rectangular ditched enclosure dating from the early Neolithic period, which is thought to have had a ceremonial function. It measures 285m in length by approximately 35m in width, narrowing at the northern end. It is one of over thirty such monuments known in Scotland, and is part of a complex of monuments in the area that includes a second cursus, a stone circle, ring-ditches, enclosures and mounds.
Information from RCAHMS (SC) 1 August 2007
