Category: Hill Figure

Kilburn White Horse

Filed under Britain, Hill Figure

The Kilburn White Horse is a large chalk hill figure cut into the limestone of Roulston Scar, the steep escarpment that defines the western edge of the Hambleton Hills in North Yorkshire. Carved in November 1857 and measuring roughly 97 by 67 metres, it was conceived not as an ancient relic but as a deliberate Victorian creation

Hill Figures

Filed under Britain, Hill Figure, Landscape feature

The Hill Figures of the British Isles Hill figures are large geoglyphs cut into Britain’s chalk and limestone hillsides, their bright-white forms visible for miles across the landscape. They range from abstract Bronze‐Age symbols to concrete horses and even regimental badges of the 20th century, each marking different moments when local communities, landowners or military …

Uffington White Horse

Filed under Bronze Age, Hill Figure

The horse was dated to between 1400–600 BC by the Oxford University Research Unit in 1995 using optical stimulated luminescence dating, its age is probably late Bronze Age.

Cerne Abbas Giant Hill Figure

Filed under Hill Figure

Cerne Abbas Giant is possibly the oldest hill figure in Britain.

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Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset

Filed under Hill Figure, Iron Age

Timeline 60BC – 138AD This timeline is focussed on the British Celtic culture and those cultures which had influence on the British Celts. It Read more Cartimandua Yorkshire, and much of northern Britain was also ruled by a queen, the most powerful ruler in Britain in fact. Read more Caratacus Caratacus was highly influenced by …