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.

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 ...

The report builds on research from 2021, when geological testing dated the Cerne Abbas Giant to between 700 and 1100 C.E.; previously, some historians had assumed it dated to prehistoric times.

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 A mysterious chalk carving of a huge, naked man on an English hillside was made in the 10th century, according to the first attempt to archaeologically date the giant. The ...

A massive figure in Dorset, England, of a naked man wielding a club, known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, is not prehistoric, as was previously believed, according to tests of snail shells found on the ...

The mystery surrounding the identity of who the Cerne Abbas giant is meant to be is something that has baffled people for centuries. Some believed the naked 180ft chalk figure in Dorset was a lost ...

LONDON — There's nothing especially subtle about the Cerne Abbas Giant. He's a big fellow, 180 feet tall, wielding a huge club. And he's naked. Very. Carved into a hillside in rural Dorset in ...

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.

In 1919, Cerne Abbas near Dorchester was a run-down outpost of the Pitt-Rivers family estate. The aftermath of World War One had meant there was a shortage of tenants so the family decided to sell up.