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The Bulford Kiwi

Beacon Hill, Bulford, Wiltshire

A giant kiwi carved by New Zealand soldiers waiting to go home.

After the First World War ended, thousands of New Zealand soldiers were stuck in camps on Salisbury Plain, waiting for ships home. To keep them busy, and after a riot over the delays, officers had them carve a huge kiwi, about 130 metres long, into the hillside.

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When
Cut 1919
Where
51.2000, -1.7300
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

On military land, but visible from roads around Bulford.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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