Holywood South
Site type: cursus
Parish: Holywood
County: Dumfriesshire
Grid reference: NX 9489 7966
Lat / long: 55.09958445, -3.64888231
Alternative names: Holywood 1; Holywood Parish Church; New Bridge; Newbridge Cursus
The Holywood cursus complex is an important concentration of Neolithic sites, including two cursus monuments and the Twelve Apostles stone circle. This, the southern cursus, features square terminals, and runs 285m from NNW to SSE, with a width of 35m. although this narrows to 22m towards the N end. Nothing is visible on the ground.
