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The Robin Hood Cave Horse (previously known as the Ochre Horse) is a fragment of a rib engraved with a horse's head, discovered in 1876, in the Robin Hood Cave in Creswell Crags, Derbyshire. It is the only piece of Upper Paleolithic portable art showing an animal to have been found in Britain.
More than 70 horses were found to be buried here, the researchers said, and the site was dated to between 1425 and 1517, the late medieval and early Tudor period.
Horse remains dating from the Mesolithic period, or Middle Stone Age, early in the Holocene, have been found in Britain, though much of Mesolithic Britain now lies under the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the English Channel, and material which may include archaeological evidence for the presence of the horse in Britain continues to be washed ...
Cherhill White Horse is a hill figure on Cherhill Down, 3.5 miles east of Calne in Wiltshire, England. Dating from the late 18th century, it is the third oldest of several such white horses in Great Britain, with only the Uffington White Horse and the Westbury White Horse being older. [ 1 ]
Westbury White Horse or Bratton White Horse is a hill figure on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, approximately 1.5 mi (2.4 km) east of Westbury in Wiltshire, England. Located on the edge of Bratton Downs and lying just below an Iron Age hill fort , it is the oldest of several white horses carved in Wiltshire. [ 1 ]
The Ochre Horse found in 1876 A leaf-point from Creswell Crags, at Derby Museum [6] A bone engraved with a horse's head and other worked bone items along with the remains of a variety of prehistoric animals have been found in excavations since 1876, including hyenas and hippopotami. The "Ochre Horse" was found on 29 June 1876 at the back of the ...
The discovery of 28 horse skeletons comes with an odd, formulaic arrangement in France. Experts believe the horses were either killed in war or sacrificed in some sort of ritualistic proceeding.
The White Horse near Kilburn - from Kilburn Village. 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 ...