"The Giant of Sern Abbas", colloquially "Rude Man", is a geoglyph on a hillside near the village of Sern Abbas to
This symbolic image was painted onon a steep hillside near the village of Sern Abbas using fairly primitive technology. The turf was simply cut down to the limestone rock, digging grooves about 30 cm deep. Scientists have long argued about when exactly this happened. One thing was known - the geoglyph definitely appeared no earlier than the 18th century, when the giant was first mentioned in the chronicles. In local folklore, it has long been believed that the chalk geoglyph promoted fertility, and the earliest mention of the giant dates back to 1694.
Collage: photo shutterstock/photo By PeteHarlow — This file was derived from: The Cerne Abbas Giant — 011.jpg.
Archaeologists recently examined the layers of the earth,located under the earliest layers of chalk, which outlined the outline of the giant. Scientists examined soil samples for over 12 months. The study involved examining samples that show when individual grains of sand in sediments of different depths were last exposed to sunlight. Material from the deepest layer suggests a date range from 700 to 1100 AD.
In this regard, historians have suggested that the geoglyph may represent an early Anglo-Saxon god.
The Anglo-Saxon period lasted 600 years, from 410 to 1066, until the Middle Ages.
Scientists also suggested that the giantIt may have been created in the late Saxon period, but then for some unknown reason was abandoned for several hundred years and then restored. This explains why it does not appear in Tudor records, scientists explain.
Let us recall that a geoglyph is a geometric or figured pattern applied to the ground, usually over 4 meters long. Many geoglyphs are so large that they can only be seen from the air.
Read more
Natural radio emission found in the atmosphere of Venus
Scientists have shown how a black hole tears apart a star
Physicists have created an analogue of a black hole and confirmed Hawking's theory. Where it leads?