The figure sketched on a hill in the village of Cerne Abbas, in Dorset, England, eponymously known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, has long been a point of fascination.

This historic chalk drawing in England once drew outcry over its most famous feature, the hanging appendage lauded elsewhere ...

Archaeologists have made remarkable new discoveries about the mysterious Cerne Abbas Giant, the U.K.’s largest chalk hill figure. Perhaps most notably, they have determined that the 180-foot ...

The giant is found near Cerne Abbey, in Dorset, southern England. Debra Angel/Alamy Stock Photo “These new dates caught us by surprise,” Papworth said.

The Cerne Giant is one of the largest artworks in the world. It is 55m high and 51m wide, and was originally created by digging more than 320m of 0.3m-deep trenches down to the chalk bedrock.

A major attraction of Dorset, England, is the Cerne Abbas Giant, a 180-foot-tall figure of a naked man wielding a large club carved with chalk into a hilltop.

The Cerne Abbas Giant is a 180-foot-tall figure of a naked man wielding a large club, carved with chalk into a hilltop in Dorset, England. The figure's generously sized erect phallus has earned it ...

But a new archaeological study by the U.K. National Trust has dated the so-called Cerne Abbas Giant to medieval times, or the the late Saxon period, possibly during the 10th century.

Scientists analysed soil from the Cerne Abbas Giant over a 12-month period. Archaeologists believe an ancient naked figure sculpted into a chalk hillside was created during the late Saxon period.

Scientific analysis of sand particles taken from the 180-foot-tall Cerne Giant show that it was probably made between 700 and 1100 AD, ...

Scientific analysis of sand particles taken from the 180-foot-tall Cerne Giant show that it was probably made between 700 and 1100 AD, ...