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This Avenue extends from Stonehenge in a straight line northwards for about five hundred yards, where it divides into two branches, one going eastward towards the Avon, where there is an ancient ford, the other continuing northward until it joins yet another earthwork, generally known as the Cursus, about half a mile distant.
Stonehenge Today and Yesterday Frank Stevens 1896
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A stone's throw from the newly found henge is a formation known as the Cursus, a
The Purdue Exponent 2010
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A stone's throw from the newly found henge is a formation known as the Cursus, a
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"Cursus", may well have known about some of these of his own knowledge; but through the seventh century there are indications of a tendency to adopt the Roman or the Monastic "cursus" instead of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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"Cursus" is the form used by Gregory writing: "exsurgente abbate cum monachis ad celebrandum cursum" (De glor. martyr., xv).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Latin "Cursus" on the whole of the Bible by the Jesuit Fathers,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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'Cursus' Is Older Than Stonehenge: Archeologists Step Closer To Solving Ancient Monument Riddle
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'Cursus' Is Older Than Stonehenge: Archeologists Step Closer To Solving Ancient Monument Riddle
Archive 2008-06-01 Jan 2008
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"Cursus", etc.) of the eighth or early ninth century; but the classical prosody of its two stanzas (solita in the third line of the original text is the only exception) suggests a much earlier origin.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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As the walk gets into its finishing stride, you pass the King Barrows still sleeping along their ridge, some of the few sites that remain unexcavated the local farmer didn't want the trees cut down, and the mysterious Cursus group of Bronze Age barrows, so named because 18th-century antiquarian William Stukeley thought it must have been built by the Romans for chariot races.
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