Talk:Dorset Cursus

message: I've expanded this article a great deal by incorporating the old information into a longer piece I wrote last year. I've given a list of the references I used in the "References" section and I'll add more to it as I remember what other resources I used. I'll add more photos when time allows. JimChampion 01:13, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
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message: Is it possible the Stonehenge Cursus, the Dorset Cursus and the like also had an important practical function, more precisely avoiding big fires to get out of control? These fires may have been unwanted (at least by most people) or intended to win new land for agriculture. 
The (most widely spread hypothetical) dates of both the Stonehenge and the Dorset cursus do not seem to contradict this hypothesis, on the contrary.
This practical function does not exclude a possible ceremonial function later on.
VandenheedeJanGJ (talk) 09:23, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia articles are based on reliable sources, so if such a theory is covered in such sources, mention of it can be made in the article. Personally I wonder why people would go to the effort of building low embankments to prevent the spread of fire, when the same effect would be achieved by felling trees to form a firebreak (presumably trees were felled anyway, before the embankments were constructed). PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 09:41, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

text: Unfortunately your hypothesis is original research and as such is not permitted on Wikipedia - see WP:NOR. Again speaking out of purely my own personal interest, I question whether firebreaks would really have been necessary in this area; the natural woodland here is temperate broadleaved, not coniferous. Temperate broadleaved forests are not prone to the same ferocious and devastating fires of coniferous forests; instead fires tend often to just burn the leaf litter at ground level, leaving the trees to survive. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 20:37, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

text: Talk pages are designed for editors to discuss suitable content and editing of the main article. They are not a forum for the discussion of possible interpretations of a monument, unless they are already discussed in reliable sources (which your theories are not). Your contributions here and at the Stonehenge Cursus and Woodhenge talk pages are unfortunately not appropriate. Ranger Steve Talk 14:43, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
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