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The Cerne Abbas Giant chalk figure, near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England, is made by a turf-cut. The Uffington White Horse at Uffington, Oxfordshire The 18th-century Westbury White Horse near Westbury, Wiltshire. A hill figure is a large visual representation created by cutting into a steep hillside and revealing the underlying ...
Printable version; In other projects ... Hill figures are pictures made of a stony material on the sides of hills. They are types of geoglyphs.
Geoglyphs on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest. A geoglyph is a large design or motif – generally longer than 4 metres (13 ft) – produced on the ground by durable elements of the landscape, such as stones, stone fragments, gravel, or earth.
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The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric hill figure, 110 m (360 ft) [1] long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk.The figure is situated on the upper slopes of Whitehorse Hill in the English civil parish of Uffington in Oxfordshire, some 16 km (10 mi) east of Swindon, 8 km (5.0 mi) south of the town of Faringdon and a similar distance west of the town of Wantage; or 2. ...
Cerne Abbas Giant on an 1891 Ordnance Survey map (1:10,560) [4]. The Giant is located just outside the small village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, about 48 kilometres (30 mi) west of Bournemouth and 26 kilometres (16 mi) north of Weymouth.
This is a list of hillside letters (also known as mountain monograms), large geoglyphs found primarily in the Western United States. [1] [2] [3] There are about 600 in total, but the status of many of these symbols are uncertain, due to vagueness in sources. The states with the most hillside letters are: Montana: 86 monograms; California: 83 ...
Mountain Monograms, A website explaining the origins and with an incomplete list and pictures; Hillside Letters, a companion website to a book on the subject. Letters on Hills, a category on waymarking.com for geocachers. Modern Geoglyphs, A compilation of geoglyphs in Montana with photos and maps.