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Prof. Howard M R Williams writes: The Stonehenge landscape has the richest concentration of Bronze Age burial mounds in Britain. If you cannot afford to visit Stonehenge itself, do not worry; most of the exciting landscape is managed by the National Trust and is free for you to explore.
After a recent early morning visit to Stonehenge, I walked back over the surrounding landscape to the Stonehenge Visitor Centre via the ‘Cursus barrows’ and Fargo Plantation.
The Cursus barrow group are a striking linear arrangement of Early Bronze Age burial mounds prominently situated on the north-western skyline when viewed from Stonehenge. They run for c. 1200m along the roughly W-E ridge located south of the west end of the Stonehenge Great Cursus (dated c. 3600-3300 BC).
The barrows are largely bowl and bell barrows, the Fargo hengiform enclosure and the large bell barrow ‘The Monarch of the Plain’ (Amesbury 55). The prominent western end of the Great Cursus defines the north-western edge of this barrow cemetery.
William Stukeley excavated two barrows here in 1723 and Richard Colt Hoare examined them in the early 19th century. The mounds have been recently re-surveyed by English Heritage.
When excavated, they were found to contain a range of Early Bronze Age burials including individuals accompanied by Beaker and Collard Urn vessels (c. 2500-1600 BC).
More at
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/exploring-the-cursus-barrows-and-fargo-plantation/
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