- 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 is a 55 metre tall carved hill figure near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- to Paris for giant exhibition Alison Visits The Cerne Abbas Giant - 21/06/2023 How the National Trust cares for Britain's naughtiest chalk figure, Cerne Giant...
- The Cerne Abbas Giant also known as the “Rude Man” or the “Rude Giant” is a figure that stands 180 ft long and 167 ft wide.