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The new material is often chalk, a soft and white form of limestone, leading to the alternative name of chalk figure for this form of art. [ citation needed ] Hill figures cut in grass are a phenomenon especially seen in England , where examples include the Cerne Abbas Giant , the Uffington White Horse , and the Long Man of Wilmington , as well ...
Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Geoglyphs" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
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.
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.
Geoglyphs look like massive line drawings carved into the ground, photos show. The newly discovered drawings are about 2,000 years old, dating between 100 B.C. and 300 A.D., researchers said. A ...
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.
The Gosford Glyphs, also known as Kariong Hieroglyphs, are a group of approximately 300 Egyptian-style hieroglyphs located in Kariong, Australia.They are found in an area known for its Aboriginal petroglyphs, between Gosford and Woy Woy, New South Wales, within the Brisbane Water National Park.