The Long Man of Wilmington

**Chalk hill sides are perfect for creating figures on the landscape, the Long Man is the best one I have seen.

 

In the comments is a shot I posted of the Cerne Abbas giant in Dorset back in 2020

 

The Long Man of Wilmington is a hill figure on the steep slopes of Windover Hill near Wilmington in East Sussex.. Locally, the figure was once often called the "Green Man". The Long Man is 235 feet tall, holds two "staves", and is designed to look in proportion when viewed from below.

Formerly thought to originate in the Iron Age or even the neolithic period, a 2003 archaeological investigation has shown that the figure may have been cut in the Early Modern era – the 16th or 17th century AD. From afar the figure appears to have been carved from the underlying chalk.

The Long Man is one of two major extant human hill figures in England; the other is the Cerne Abbas Giant, north of Dorchester. Both are Scheduled Ancient Monuments

 

 

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