• The Cerne Abbas giant is cut into a chalky hillside in Dorset. It’s a bit of a thing in the British chalk country, carving figures into the hillsides: horses (16...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • New research from the University of Oxford concludes that the Cerne Abbas Giant was originally carved as an image of Hercules to mark a muster station for...
  • 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 Cerne Abbas Giant was formed by cutting trenches two feet deep into the steep hillside and then filling them with crushed chalk.
  • English: The Cerne Abbas giant is a hill figure of a giant naked man on a hillside near the village of Cerne Abbas to the north of Dorchester in Dorset, England.
  • The Cerne Abbas Giant (or Rude Man) is a large naked figure carved into a hill in Dorset, England, 55 metres (180 feet) high.
  • Jonathan Still, the vicar of Cerne Abbas church said recently; ‘The giant is absolutely essential to what this place is, and who these people are’.
  • Whoever the Cerne Abbas Giant is supposed to be, he is depicted with his right arm raised with a club, and his left arm projecting out to the side.