BRITISH BREAK IN... DORSET
Nov 12, 2020
3 minutes
Apparently size does matter – at least it did according to the medieval folk of Dorset. Why else would they graffiti an 11m-long erection on a hill that can be seen for miles?
Now a National Trust monument, the 55m-tall Cerne Giant is an outline of a man – complete with abs, pecs and the aforementioned member – which was dug out of chalk near the village of Cerne Abbas.
The earliest written evidence of the figure was
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