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The Red Horse of Tysoe

Tysoe, Warwickshire

A lost hill figure cut into red earth, and the search for where it lay.

For centuries a horse was cut into the reddish soil of the hillside above Tysoe, and villagers held an annual scouring festival on Palm Sunday. The land was enclosed around 1800, and the horse disappeared.

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When
Lost by c.1800
Where
52.1000, -1.5000
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

The hillside lies above Tysoe, near the Edgehill escarpment.

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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