Cerne Giant, the
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Cerne Giant, the. Huge figure of a nude man cut in prehistoric times through turf to underlying chalk on a hillside near Cerne Abbas, 7 miles N of Dorchester, Dorset. Although of incalculable antiquity, the figure is often attributed to the British Celts who inhabited this region in pre-Roman times. The figure holds a club measuring 167 feet in his right hand and extends his left arm. Cut in 2-foot-wide ditches, the whole figure is 200 feet from top to bottom; his erect phallus measures 30 feet. In recent centuries the hill-side and figure itself were sites of fertility festivals and May Day celebrations.
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See Stuart Piggott , ‘The Cerne Abbas Giant’, Antiquity, 12 (1938), 323–31
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