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Uffington White Horse

Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire

A 3,000-year-old horse carved into the chalk, best seen from the sky.

The Uffington White Horse is over 100 metres long and made of trenches filled with chalk. Scientific dating shows it is about 3,000 years old.

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When
c. 1000 BC
Where
51.5776, -1.5668
Group
Legends

Visiting

National Trust, free. Dragon Hill sits just below it.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

Keeping it white is a continuing job. If regular cleaning stops, the figure quickly becomes obscured.

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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