[3] Curriestanes is rare in having an entrance gap in one of its terminals, a feature known from only a handful of sites in the UK.

[5] Only 3 other cursus monuments in Scotland are wider: East Linton, Brioch and Monktonhill.

[6] The ditches are irregular and do not appear to have been intended to be exactly straight which suggests that they may have been built in short segments.

Before 1976, when RCAHMS began its aerial photography programme, only one definite cursus site was known in Scotland: Gallaberry in Dumfreis and Galloway.

[10] These are found in two main geographical concentrations, in lowland Angus and Perthshire and another in Dumfries and Galloway, for the most part in and around the Nith valley.