Hill figure and Related Topics

Uffington White Horse

The head of the horse, with sheep grazing around it.

White Horse Hill (left) and Dragon Hill (right)

The Manger, with the White Horse at centre skyline and Dragon Hill (left)

The Giant's Stair, taken from White Horse Hill

The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric hill figure, 110 m long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk.

Cerne Abbas Giant

Layout of the giant with the obliterated line (in yellow) reconstructed

Lord Holles, a portrait from the 1640s. Holles, the Cerne Abbas landowner, has been suggested as the person who ordered the giant to be cut in mockery of his political adversary Cromwell.

Hercules holding a club and the Nemean lion-skin fur

Homer Simpson as promotion for The Simpsons Movie

1764, first known drawing from the Gentleman's Magazine with measurements, including the height of {{convert|180|ft}}

1764 sketch, perhaps dated to 1763, sent to the Society of Antiquaries of London<ref>Minute Book of the Society of Antiquaries, November 1763, in Vol. IX, July 1762 – April 1765, pp. 199–200, reproduced in D. Morgan Evans (1998), "Eighteenth-Century Descriptions of the Cerne Abbas Giant", The Antiquaries Journal, 78, pp. 463–71, {{doi|10.1017/S000358150004508X}}, p. 468</ref>

1842 drawing by the antiquary and editor John Sydenham<ref>John Sydenham, Baal Durotrigensis. A dissertation on the antient colossal figure at Cerne, Dorsetshire; and an attempt to illustrate the distinction between the primal Celtæ and the Celto-Belgæ of Britain: with observations on the worship of the serpent and that of the sun, London, W. Pickering, 1842. Opposite title page.</ref>

1892 drawing by the author and antiquarian William Plenderleath<ref>William Plenderleath, The white horses of the west of England, 1892, p. 39</ref>

The Cerne Abbas Giant is a hill figure near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England.

Long Man of Wilmington

Annual pagan Long Man celebrations (with effigy)

The vandalised "Long" Man of Wilmington during summer solstice 2010

The Long Man of Wilmington or Wilmington Giant is a hill figure on the steep slopes of Windover Hill near Wilmington, East Sussex, England.

Geoglyph

Large design or motif produced on the ground by durable elements of the landscape, such as stones, stone fragments, gravel, or earth.

The prehistoric English hill figure of the Uffington White Horse

The Nazca Lines in Peru. This photograph taken in December 2006 depicts the hummingbird

Bunjil geoglyph at the You Yangs, Lara, Australia, by Andrew Rogers. The creature has a wingspan of 100 metres and 1,500 tonnes of rock were used to construct it.

Portrait of Genghis Khan painted onto cleared areas of Mt. Bogd Khan in Mongolia in 2006.

The Litlington White Horse in the village of Litlington, South West England

A hill figure is created on a slope, so that it can be seen from a distance.

The Market Cross, built in 1814 to replace an earlier cross standing a little to the south

Devizes

Market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.

The Shire horses of the Wadworth Brewery are giving the public a ride but normally deliver beer locally

A flight of 16 locks climbs Caen Hill near Devizes, on the Kennet and Avon Canal

In 1999, a hill figure of a white horse was cut onto a hill close to Roundway Hill.

East Sussex

County in South East England on the English Channel coast.

Beachy Head and lighthouse, Eastbourne, East Sussex

Mermaid Street in Rye showing typically steep slope and cobbled surface

The Litlington White Horse in the village of Litlington

The A23, one of the major North-South routes.

East Sussex also includes two chalk hill figures, being the Litlington White Horse and the Long Man of Wilmington, which are both situated in the Sussex Downs.

Pewsey

Large village and civil parish at the centre of the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, about 6 mi south of Marlborough and 71 mi west of London.

The Pewsey White Horse hill figure is located on a steep slope of Pewsey Hill about 1 mi south of the village, and can be viewed from several places in the surrounding area.

Cerne Abbas

Village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England.

It is notable as the location of the Cerne Abbas Giant, a chalk figure of a giant naked man on a hillside.

The dip slope of the South Downs, as seen from Angmering Park Estate near Arundel (panoramic view).

The South Downs are a range of chalk hills that extends for about 260 sqmi across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the Eastbourne Downland Estate, East Sussex, in the east.

Geological map of south-east England, with areas that have chalk bedrock shown in light-green.

A north-south cross-section through the Weald-Artois Anticline, East Sussex.

The Long Man of Wilmington, inscribed into the scarp face of the South Downs in East Sussex

Looking east along the Downs towards the Devil's Dyke, Sussex

Trig Point on Kithurst Hill West Sussex. Located on the South Downs Way above the village of Storrington. 699 ft high at the summit.

Typical topography (Treyford Hill): steep wooded northern slope (left), gently sloping southern slope of pasture and woodland.

Three of the landmarks on the Downs are the Long Man of Wilmington and the Litlington White Horse being chalk carved hill figures, and Clayton Windmills.