• Regardless of its age, the Cerne Abbas Giant has become an important part of local culture and folklore, which often associates it with fertility.
  • New research indicates the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset was originally carved as an image of Hercules to mark a muster station for West Saxon armies.
  • Cerne Abbas Giant: Has the mystery of the chalk hill figure been solved? ... Cerne Abbas giant is Hercules and was army meeting point, say historians.
  • A really pleasant drive towards the giant, the village of Cerne Abbas is also definitely worth a stroll around if you get a chance.
  • The Cerne Abbas Giant is an ancient Anglo-Saxon naked figure sculpted into the hillside about the village of Cerne Abbas and has been 'maintained' by The...
  • The first reference to this figure dates back to 1694: a payment in the Cerne Abbas churchwarden's accounts of 3 shillings towards the re-cutting of the giant.
  • The striking giant of Cerne Abbas is a 180 foot high figure of a man bearing a 121 foot long club, incised into the chalk of the hillside.
  • cerne abbas The Cerne Abbas Giant with sheep and shepherd over left shoulder. Upon a hill rising from the small Dorset village of Cerne Abbas, the...
  • WALKS IN DORSET at CERNE ABBAS (& THE CERNE ABBAS GIANT) Playing with Giant Ideas: new evidence from excavations at the Cerne Abbas Giant...
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  • The Cerne Abbas Giant, in Dorset, is so imposing that he is best viewed from the opposite crest of the valley, or from the air.Illustration by Bill Bragg.