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 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 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.

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