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- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- Driving up from Dorset, we stopped off to see the Cerne Abbas Giant - carved into the chalk hillside.
- 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 Cerne Abbas Giant chalk hill figure and The Trendle enclosure earthwork on Giant Hill, Cerne Abbas, Dorset, 2015. Artist Historic England.
- The Cerne Abbas Giant has long stood as a sentinel over the English countryside, its cultural resonance echoing through the ages.
- According to a local legend, a giant form Denmark invaded the English coast, and as he slept on the hillside, he was decapitated by the people of Cerne Abbas.
- The Cerne Abbas Giant or the ‘Rude Man’ is one of the largest hillfigures in Britain, he (the figure’s gender is beyond doubt) is one of two representations of the...
