- Name: Cerne Abbas Giant. Lat, Long: 50.81368,-2.474657. ... The Cerne Abbas Giant is a hill figure near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England.
- Hello and welcome to the channel. In this video, the channel host and Viking Egil Thorsson is telling an old English folktale called the Cerne Abbas giant.
- The Cerne Abbas Giant is a geoglyph carved into a chalk hillside with an origin that has puzzled archeologists for decades. The Mystery of Geoglyphs.
- 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.
- The Cerne Abbas Giant was formed by cutting trenches two feet deep into the steep hillside and then filling them with crushed chalk.
- The Cerne Abbas Giant is one of the most intriguing chalk figures and is found in the sleepy backwaters of Dorset, in the heart of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex.
- In the case of the Cerne Abbas Giant, the underlying rock is chalk, which causes the giant to stand out vividly against the green hill he is carved into.
- The exact age of the Cerne Abbas Giant is not known, as there are no records or historical accounts of its creation.
- Cerne Abbas Giant has featured in everything from tourist guides to jeans commercials. He's been at the center of political protests.
- The Cerne Abbas Giant chalk hill figure and The Trendle enclosure earthwork on Giant Hill, Cerne Abbas, Dorset, 2015. Artist Historic England.