Windover Cursus

Nearest town:
Seaford (7km SW)
OS reference:
TQ541033
OS sheet:
199
Latitude:
50° 48' 29.27 N
Longitude:
0° 11' 14.7 E
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Image of Windover Cursus by Cursuswalker

Windover Cursus. Summer 1999.

The Cursus is just left of centre in this photo and runs up the hill towards top right.

Image credit: Cursuswalker
Cursuswalker
Cursuswalker May 23, 2003
Image of Windover Cursus by Cursuswalker

Windover Cursus. Summer 1999.

This is the view from the bottom of the Cursus. If walking up it please use one of the tracks on either side, in order to prevent eroding the camber in the centre.

As you walk up it Windover Long Barrow comes into view and the two halves of the Cursus split off to join either end. Other than that it truly is a path to nowhere.

Image credit: Cursuswalker
Cursuswalker
Cursuswalker May 23, 2003

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Windover Cursus

juamei
juamei Jul 16, 2003

[visited 14/07/03] Well, I’m by far a cursus expert but I always thought they were much wider and generally bigger than this. However look at the pictures; it is a very strange track, it heads straight to one end of the barrow and it does go straight up a very steep hill. I would guess the central mound (and it is raised) is about 5 metres across.

Unfortunately I didn’t get to the end at the bottom of the hill due to time constraints, so I have no idea how far it went etc...

Windover Cursus

Cursuswalker
Cursuswalker May 23, 2003

I am adding some sites on Windover Hill, the site of the Long Man of Wilmington. These photographs were taken nearly 4 years ago and I have only just dug them up!

The landscape above the Long Man is well worth a visit for those who don’t mind shapes in the grass with no interesting rocks cluttering up the place. We don’t really do rocks in this neck of the woods.

(See the Goldstone, in Brighton, for a notable exception. The only megalith to have had a football ground named after it!)

The fact that a large Neolithic Long Barrow and a large Bronze Age Round Barrow seem to be aligned with the space on which the Long Man now stands is something that I find intriguing. While the Naturalistic figure of the Long Man could only be Roman at the very oldest, I believe there to have been something on this site for a very long time. If only we could see what were the original designs on this hill.

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