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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 ...
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 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of Dorchester.
The Kilburn White Horse is a hill figure cut into the hillside in the North York Moors National Park near Kilburn in North Yorkshire, England. It is 318 feet (97 m) long by 220 ft (67 m) high and covers about 1.6 acres (6,475 m 2 ) and said to be the most northerly "chalk" hill figure in England.
The Litlington White Horse is a chalk hill figure depicting a horse, situated on Hindover Hill (locally known as High-and-Over) in the South Downs.It overlooks the River Cuckmere to the west of the village of Litlington and north of East Blatchington in East Sussex, England.
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. ...
The Folkestone White Horse is a white horse hill figure, carved into Cheriton Hill, Folkestone, Kent, South East England. It overlooks the English terminal of the Channel Tunnel and was completed in June 2003. [1] The horse was planned as a Millennium Landmark [2] to help regenerate the Folkestone area. [3]
Devizes White Horse, officially known as the Devizes Millennium White Horse, is a chalk hill figure of a horse located on Bank Field, an escarpment at Roundway Hill, on the outskirts of the town of Devizes above the hamlet of Roundway, Wiltshire, England; it is about ½ mile north of Roundway.
Pewsey White Horse is a hill figure of a white horse near the village of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England. Cut of chalk in 1937, it replaces an earlier horse that had disappeared under the grass and is one of eight remaining white horses in Wiltshire. It measures 66’ by 45’, making it the smallest of the eight canonical white horses in Wiltshire.