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Pathways and Ceremonies:

The Cursus Monuments of Britain and Ireland
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Oxbow Books, 1999 - History - 154 pages
A review of the most recent evidence from cursuses, and ideas on their interpretation, with contributions as follows: Introduction (J Harding and A Barclay), the radiocarbon problem (A Barclay and A Bayliss), symbolic territories (J Harding), processions, memories and the Dorset cursus (R Johnston), Dorchester on Thames - ritual complex or ritual landscape (R Loveday), cattle, cursus monuments and the river ... the Upper Thames (A Barclay and G Hey), the Cambridgeshire Ouse (T Malim), Eastern England (J Last), the Cleaven Dyke (A Barclay and G Maxwell), the Holywood cursus, Dumfries (J Thomas et al), cursus monuments in Scotland (K Brophy), cursus monuments in Wales (A Gibson), cursus-like monuments in Ireland (C Newman), Passy-Rots and linear monuments in northern France (I Kinnes).

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An introduction to the cursus monuments of Neolithic Britain and Ireland
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cursus monuments and symbolic territories
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DorchesteronThames ritual complex or ritual landscape?
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