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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dorchester Cursus
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.617 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Oxfordshire Type: Cursus
Nearest Town: Abingdon  Nearest Village: Dorchester
Map Ref: SU581948  Landranger Map Number: 164
Latitude: 51.649001N  Longitude: 1.161652W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Major Cursus in Oxfordshire

Status: Certain
NMR No. SU 59 NE 5
Extent: 1600mx60m
Terminal type: Rounded
Date: 3380-2910 cal BC 93% confidence (BM-2443) for antler from ditch

Note: This location marks one terminal (end) of a cursus monument. The location of the other terminal can be found in the Nearby Site list below.
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Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Prehistoric Dorchester-on-Thames Poster: Iron Age (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : A stitched panorama showing an overview of the whole of trench one looking east. The cursus bank runs left to right along the centre of the trench, just visible as two dark parallel lines. The ring ditch bisects it, visible as a dark circle. The lady with the hat is in the centre of the ring ditch and the yellow bucket is just inside the left hand part. The ring ditch is thought to be ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Our guide gives a tour of the latest excavations of prehistoric Dorchester-on-Thames (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : An aerial view has been overlaid with the known features, plus geophysics of the area being excavated (top right of the photo, below the squiggly blue line, which is the nearby stream). On the grey goephysics you can see the extension of the cursus ditch plus a circular feature. The point where these cross is where they centered the main trench. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Our guide shows an aerial view of the site (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Prehistoric Dorchester-on-Thames Poster: Excavations in the Car Boot Sale field

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Selection of animal bones from the Allotment site

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Selection of pottery sherds from the Allotment site (1 comment)

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Finds from Roman Dorchester

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Flint tools and other struck flints from the cursus excavation

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Finds from the topsoil and plough, later cursus excavations

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : The western part of trench 2 contains evidence of a rectilinear Neolithic enclosure

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : They had time to open up a second smaller trench. The eastern end contains a tree-throw with mesolithic flints deposited in the roots, the earliest part of the site that has been found

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Looking south along the cursus. The two diggers together are just about in the centre of the ring ditch

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : An overview of the whole of trench one. Here you can see the cursus bank as two dark parallel lines from rear to front-right and the ring ditch bisecting it, visible as a dark circle. The lady with the hat is in the centre of the ring ditch and the yellow bucket is just inside the left hand part. The ring ditch is thought to be the remains of a bronze age round barrow, it sits on the b...

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Excavation of another section through the ring ditch.

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Close up of the section through the ring ditch. This is thought to be the remains of a bronze age round barrow, it sits on the bank of the cursus, bisecting it almost exactly

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : A very intact looking Beaker pot in situ close to the bank of the cursus

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Our other guide shows the excavation through the bank of the cursus

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Close up of the excavations of the ring ditch (front) and the cursus (rear).

Dorchester Cursus
Dorchester Cursus submitted by Andy B : Excavations of the ring ditch (front) and the cursus (rear).

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 480m NW 314° Woodhenge (Dorchester) Henge (SU57759513)
 859m SE 126° Dorchester; Overy Cursus (SU588943)
 975m NW 313° Dorchester Cursus Cursus (SU57389546)
 1.1km WNW 303° Dorchester Big Rings* Henge (SU57209537)
 1.1km NE 34° Dorchester-on-Thames 3 Timber Circle (SU587957)
 1.4km SSW 211° Dyke Hills* Hillfort (SU57389358)
 1.5km SE 128° Dorchester; Overy Cursus (SU593939)
 1.5km NW 308° Dorchester-on-Thames 5 Timber Circle (SU569957)
 1.5km NW 308° Dorchester-on-Thames 4 Timber Circle (SU569957)
 1.6km NW 311° Dorchester-on-Thames 6 Timber Circle (SU569958)
 1.7km NW 313° Dorchester Cursus* Cursus (SU56859595)
 2.0km N 6° Mount Farm (Oxfordshire) Timber Circle (SU583968)
 2.6km SE 140° Shillingford Cursus Cursus (SU598928)
 2.6km SSW 207° Sinodun Camp* Hillfort (SU5694592434)
 2.9km S 190° Brightwell Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SU576919)
 3.0km SE 138° Warborough Cursus Cursus (SU60119260)
 3.0km NE 42° Drayton St. Leonard Cursus Cursus (SU601971)
 3.1km SE 138° Shillingford Cursus Cursus (SU602925)
 3.2km NE 42° Drayton St. Leonard Cursus Cursus (SU602972)
 4.3km NNE 24° Stadhampton Cursus Cursus (SU59799875)
 4.7km NNE 23° Stadhampton Cursus Cursus (SU59909910)
 5.6km ESE 122° Benson Cursus Cursus (SU629919)
 5.7km SE 132° Benson Cursus Cursus (SU624910)
 6.9km S 187° Cholsey Hill Camp* Hillfort (SU5735387927)
 7.2km WNW 300° Barrow Hills Radley I Timber Circle (SU518983)
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