Holywood North


Site type: cursus

Parish: Holywood

County: Dumfriesshire

Grid reference: NX 9502 8012

Lat / long: 55.10411851, -3.645933608

Alternative names: Holywood School; Holywood 2

The historic map is an Ordnance Survey map from 1919 to 1947, and is provided by the National Library of Scotland

The Holywood cursus complex is an important concentration of Neolithic sites, including two cursus monuments and the Twelve Apostles stone circle. This, the northern cursus, features rounded terminals, and runs 400m from NNE to SSW, with a width of 30m. Nothing is visible on the ground.

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created Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 4:20 pm, last updated Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 4:20 pm