Comments on: English Chalk Figures

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:11:25 +0000

I love searching for the White Horses with Google Earth, I’ve found most of the ones that are visible. And I have finally seen on from the ground while traveling back to London from Stonehenge a few weeks ago, really fantastic. I did learn some interesting things about some of what you might see. Lots of the circles may be old stone circles, or barrows, or they might also be the remnants of W.W.II storage tanks, during the war I was told, it was not unusual for storage tanks to be buried so that they weren’t targets for bombers. Most of the tanks left scars on the landscape and can still be seen. There are also a lot of left over gun emplacements from W.W.II as well and they also left some strange foot prints on the landscape. Then there are ancient hill forts.

Then there is the Uffington Horse, which we can finally see. As mentioned here before. But there is another very closeby structure that has an interesting story. It’s right next to the horse on top of a hill, you can see it because of the little white patch on top. It’s called Dragon Hill, or sometimes Dragon’s Knob, and it’s where legend has it that St. George slew the dragon. According to the legend, the dragon bled out on top of Dragon Hill and the place where the blood fell is the white patch on top, and it’s true, nothing has ever been able to grow in that patch, it’s always been bare. You decide

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:47:19 +0000

Not sure what happened to your link ajho, but here’s a maps link for Waylands Smithy:
Placemark: Waylands Smithy / Google Earth
(compare to a plan of the site for reference)

I myself have just learned a lot from the Wiki page about Long Barrows, but the gist of them is that they were burial chambers for the dead, which were constructed anything up to 6 thousand years ago!

By: ajho

ajho — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:31:58 +0000

Oops. How did that space creep in there? Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: ajho

ajho — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:28:58 +0000

Don’t know what the square ones are, but the circles are almost certainly round barrows. The area around Uffington is littered with neolithic and bronze age sites such as the long barrow Waylands Smithy (Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:50:12 +0000

Any idea what is up with those tiny squares and circles in the fields where they have planted around them, leaving little islands in the midst of the crops?

By: Mrb

Mrb — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:04:44 +0000

The Cerne Abbas Giant seems to have taken up Karaoke