Ancient site · England · Restored
Cerne Abbas Giant
The Cerne Abbas Giant is a large chalk hill figure cut into the west-facing slope of Trendle Hill near Cerne Abbas, Dorset. The outline—trenches backfilled with crushed white chalk—depicts a colossal nude male holding a knotted club; the site is owned by the National Trust and is a scheduled monument. Its origin and original appearance are uncertain, but it is a well-known, regularly maintained landscape figure and visitor attraction.
Its prime
AD 900
Today
Restored
As it stood in AD 900
What Cerne Abbas Giant looked like in its prime.
A steep, west-facing hillside rendered in stark white lines: shallow trenches about 0.6 m deep filled with crushed chalk form a 55 m long human outline with broad limbs, an outlined waist/belt and a knotted club reaching some 37 m. The figure reads as continuous bright chalk against green turf, with a defined head and raised left arm; traces of an animal-skin or cloak are visible over the left shoulder. The earthwork Trendle sits on the ridge above the figure.
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