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The Lost Giants of Wandlebury

Gog Magog Hills, Cambridgeshire

Giant figures recorded by old writers, and an archaeologist who said he found them.

In the 1600s writers described a giant figure cut into the turf at Wandlebury hillfort, near Cambridge, which students went to see. It later disappeared.

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When
Recorded 1600s
Where
52.1600, 0.1800
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

Wandlebury Country Park is free to explore, just south of Cambridge.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

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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