Posted on 11/20/2009 8:07:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The gardens were built when the Abbey of Cernes was transformed into a country mansion in the mid-16th century after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. One resident who may have been responsible for the gardens was Denzil Holles, a characterful MP who fought for the Parliamentarians but was a Royalist at heart and who occupied the house from 1642-66. The Rev John Hutchins, a local historian writing in 1774, claimed that he was told that the giant was "a modern thing" cut by Lord Holles. The National Trust, which owns the field where the giant is carved, suggests that the figure could be Roman or Celtic in origin, but observes that it may be a 17th-century joke at the expense of Oliver Cromwell, whom Holles held in contempt. Mr Wilson-North does not believe that Holles necessarily created the giant, but the water feature in his garden suggests that he was aware of it... Carved from the steep slopes of Windover Hill in East Sussex, at over 220ft the Long Man of Wilmington is the tallest chalk figure in England... Visible from the A4 just below the earthwork of Oldbury Castle in Wiltshire, the Churhill white horse could be Bronze Age in origin
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I thought it was hilarious.
Evidently the British pagans were up in arms about Homer Simpson throwing a donut at the Cerne Giant. This could have been a new Monty Python documentary.
http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/pagans-to-use-rain-magic-on-homer-simpson/
There is much guarded hilarity underground in Britain.
Hey! Thanks for finding it.
For all their slide into depressive socialism they still got their sense of humor.
close-up for perspective.
\ Discuss.
“The gun is good. The penis is evil.”
Yeah, looks exactly like a turf sculpture some uptight British lord would have cut into the landscape three or four hundred years ago. :’) Thanks Fred Nerks.
Must be pretty well guarded. ;’)
:’)
...and in the role of Major Codpiece...
As soon as I rinse the vomit from my mouth.
Guy has a very large....ummm...club.
This is your weapon.
This is your gun.
One is for fighting, the other for fun.
[ban pit penii!]
"He's going to be very popular."
No one could see it from ground level.
Ergo ...
More proof of prehistoric alien visitors!!!!!!
Izzy older than the Cardiff Giant?
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