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Cerne Abbas from the air Photo: National Trust Images. © Mike Calnan, James Dobson
One of the most famous hill chalk figures in England, the 180-foot-tall Cerne Abbas giant, rearing magnificently endowed and club in hand above a village in West Dorset, has been dated for the first time to the late Saxon period.
The results of the year-long study overturns earlier suggestions that the figure was prehistoric or a Roman image of Hercules with his club and also the theory that the giant is relatively modern, a 17th-century rude joke, more than two fingers raised to Oliver Cromwell.
The research by scientists working with National Trust archaeologists, jointly funded by the trust, the University of Gloucestershire, Allen Environmental Archaeology and the Pratt Bequest, used Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) on grains of sand from the deepest layer of the sediment, which can reveal when they were last exposed to sunlight. It suggests a date of between 70