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Cursus, long mortuary enclosure, ring ditch and other associated cropmarks 700m east of Netherexe Barton is a Neolithic ritual monument complex visible primarily as cropmarks in the landscape near Exeter, Devon. The site comprises a linear cursus earthwork, characteristic of Neolithic ceremonial monuments dating to the fourth millennium BCE, along with a mortuary enclosure and ring ditch of the same period. These features represent evidence of early agricultural communities' ritual and funerary practices during the Neolithic era. The monuments survive as soil marks and cropmarks rather than prominent earthworks, revealing the archaeological complexity of this locality through aerial and field survey methods.
Cursus, long mortuary enclosure, ring ditch and other associated cropmarks 700m east of Netherexe Barton is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014144. View the official record →
Cursus, long mortuary enclosure, ring ditch and other associated cropmarks 700m east of Netherexe Barton is a Neolithic ritual monument complex visible primarily as cropmarks in the landscape near Exeter, Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014144.
Cursus, long mortuary enclosure, ring ditch and other associated cropmarks 700m east of Netherexe Barton is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1014144.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bomb damaged remains of St Catherine's Almshouses and chapel and adjacent canon's house, 140m north of the Cathedral (7.5 km), Law Library, Cathedral Yard (7.6 km), Part of the Roman town of Exeter, beneath Cathedral Green (7.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cursus, long mortuary enclosure, ring ditch and other associated cropmarks 700m east of Netherexe Barton's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cursus, long mortuary enclosure, ring ditch and other associated cropmarks 700m east of Netherexe Barton stands on Permian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.