• Snail shells have revealed that the Cerne Abbas Giant, the figure of a naked man sporting a club and a 30-foot phallus cut into chalk hillside in Dorset, is medieval at...
  • Aerial view showing the field below the giant and the "herepath" curving up onto Giant Hill from the bottom right, Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England.
  • Until now archaeologists and historians had thought that a 55-metre tall figure, cut into a hillside in Dorset, the so-called Cerne Abbas Giant...
  • The Cerne Abbas Giant ( Giant of Cerne Abbas ) is a dug by exposing a layer of lime in the soil of a man.
  • he Cerne Abbas Giant, in Dorset, is so imposing that he is best viewed from the opposite crest of the valley, or from the air. Illustration by Bill Bragg.
  • Soil samples from the Cerne Abbas Giant were analysed by scientists over 12 months to reveal the landmark's age.
  • This figure, known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, has mystified experts and local people for centuries. The giant is notorious because it is depicted naked.
  • The National Trust has been conducting analysis of the Cerne Abbas Giant for the past 12 months to try and shed some light on the mystery.
  • Woke complainers want to ban the famous carving of the Cerne Abbas giant and its penis from a magazine cover over claims it is a symbol of 'toxic masculinity'.
  • The Cerne Abbas Giant is perhaps the most well-known of the chalk figures of England. Approximately 60 have been etched on the landscape with less than a...