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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Maxey CursusCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.423 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cambridgeshire Type: Cursus
Nearest Town: Market Deeping Nearest Village: Maxey
Map Ref: TF11800830
Latitude: 52.660903N Longitude: 0.348433W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Cursus in Cambridgeshire
Neolithic Cursus near Maxey. Quarrying has destroyed parts of the monument. It appears to be associated with other prehistoric monuments in the area. Parts of the Cursus have been excavated.
This now almost completely destroyed cursus is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 1030941, a short extract of which reads: "The cursus is at least 2 kilometres in length, and orientated roughly northwest-southeast, though with a marked change in direction around the mid point, just northwest of the henge. Its visible course begins near the River Welland at its northwest end, although no terminals are visible, these possibly being concealed by alluvium. At this end, the cursus appears to be marked by 4 roughly parallel ditches, the northern pair only visible for a short distance. The two principal ditches are discontinuous, at least as cropmarks, with the southern ditch continuing as far as the Maxey Cut watercourse in the south. The northern ditch seems to end long before this point, having begun to turn south."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this cursus - see their entry for Maxey Cursus, Cambridgeshire, which gives a grid reference of TF 125 078, some 850 metres to the south east of that given by Pastscape (the two grid references presumably marking the north west/south east ends).
TNA adds: "a segment of cursus ditch emerges from this vaguely henge-like site, 450 feet in diameter, in the direction of the nearby church” of St. Peter. The 'henge-like site' described ... has been defined by Oswald, Dyer and Barber (2001) as one of the enigmatic ’causewayed enclosure’ monuments – out of which emerges the other seperate alignment, the Etton Cursus, heading southeast."
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