- After centuries of speculation, the origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant may finally have been determined, according to a recent study.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 exact age of the Cerne Abbas Giant is not known, as there are no records or historical accounts of its creation.
- The Cerne Abbas Giant is also known as the “Rude Man”, for obvious reasons. It is the largest hill drawing in Britain and one of only two human representations.
- It's not often a discovery shocks archaeologists, but the revelation that the Cerne Abbas Giant could've been created in the late Saxon period has surprised many.
- 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 has long stood as a sentinel over the English countryside, its cultural resonance echoing through the ages.
- 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...