Uffington White Horse could be a dog ?

[Fnaar]

See story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-11531634

Well he's clearly wrong, because it looks over the Vale of the White Horse

There's a clue in the name, duh!

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Must be barking, eh Fnaar?

 

[guitarpete247]

And the Cerne Abbas Giant has just dropped a 40mm headset spanner and is having trouble with his bar tape.

 

[Ravenbait]

I think Mr Swarbrick said it himself when he described the creature as stylised. You can't go around claiming something is anatomically incorrect while also saying that it's stylised. That's a redundancy. I'd have gone so far as to say it was a tautology. Tail's too long indeed!

It certainly doesn't look any more like a bloomin' dog!

Sam

 

[dellzeqq]

And the Cerne Abbas Giant has just dropped a 40mm headset spanner and is having trouble with his bar tape.

I may have mentioned this before, but I my forebears came from Cerne Abbas.

 

[jimboalee]

See story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk...dshire-11531634

Well he's clearly wrong, because it looks over the Vale of the White Horse

There's a clue in the name, duh!

That's the first 'Horse ????' I've seen with a forked tongue.

Wake up people. What's that red thing on the Welsh flag?

 

[jimboalee]

If you lived in a mud hut 6000 years ago in the English forest, and you saw a big thing flying in the sky with shiney bright eyes that breathed fire and set the trees alight, what would you call it?

The only flying objects back then were birds, and it was way too big to be a bird.

And did it make a row? Such a whooshing noise with the roaring of a terrible beast.

It remains unidentified, so logic says its an Unidentified ( see above ).

 

[Noodley]

If you lived in a mud hut 6000 years ago in the English forest, and you saw a big thing flying in the sky with shiney bright eyes that breathed fire and set the trees alight, what would you call it?

A good night out?

 

[jimboalee]

A good night out?

What were those berries you found?

 

[surfdude]

Cerne Abbas Giant is this a girl or boy ,not sure now after looking at the dog/horse thing . mind you iam not a barking mad vet with poor eyesight and if it is a welsh dragon where are its wings ?

 

[jimboalee]

Cerne Abbas Giant is this a girl or boy ,not sure now after looking at the dog/horse thing . mind you iam not a barking mad vet with poor eyesight and if it is a welsh dragon where are its wings ?

The people at the time carved a figure on the hillside after the reported sighting of a large beast. Can someone explain to me why it has two tongues? And what are the spikes on its shoulders?

I'm not entirely sure there were horses in Britain at that time. The hill figure is dated at 1000 BC, and the Romans brought horses to Britain.
The Romans, dismissing the ancient Britons' cults and religions, named the hill figure 'the white horse', to offset the stories of giant beasts from 1000 years previous.

I do not believe it is a horse, or a dog, or a cat for that matter.
By some weird co-incidence, just to the north of the hill figure is a small conical mound with a flat top. Adjacent to the mound is a flat area, that resembles the site of an encampment.
The small conical mound is known as 'Dragon Hill'... Why?

If you stand on the hillside above the hill figure's eye and cast your sight to Dragon Hill, the pathway from the flat on Dragon Hill is in alignment with the hill figure's eye.
Continue that alignment southward into the night sky and it would have pointed at Sirius rising in 1000 BC.

 

[Noodley]

Continue that alignment southward into the night sky and it would have pointed at Sirius rising in 1000 BC.

You mean Sirius, the dog star?

 

[jonesy]

The people at the time carved a figure on the hillside after the reported sighting of a large beast. Can someone explain to me why it has two tongues? And what are the spikes on its shoulders?

I'm not entirely sure there were horses in Britain at that time. The hill figure is dated at 1000 BC, and the Romans brought horses to Britain.
The Romans, dismissing the ancient Britons' cults and religions, named the hill figure 'the white horse', to offset the stories of giant beasts from 1000 years previous.

I do not believe it is a horse, or a dog, or a cat for that matter.
By some weird co-incidence, just to the north of the hill figure is a small conical mound with a flat top. Adjacent to the mound is a flat area, that resembles the site of an encampment.
The small conical mound is known as 'Dragon Hill'... Why?

If you stand on the hillside above the hill figure's eye and cast your sight to Dragon Hill, the pathway from the flat on Dragon Hill is in alignment with the hill figure's eye.
Continue that alignment southward into the night sky and it would have pointed at Sirius rising in 1000 BC.

That's a good point. We have to look at all the evidence. A giant fire breathing sky-beast is far more likely an explanation than a horse.

 

[Dayvo]

I've been in a few White Horses, pubs, if you're wondering ( ) and that definitely ain't no dog!

Coincidentally, I was there on Sunday afternoon walking around the outside of the chalk carving and going acoss the area where the settlement was.

It is mightily impressive, considering its estimated age, although it most certainly does look like some modernist piece of art.

 

[jimboalee]

You mean Sirius, the dog star?

Wow Noodley.... I'm bloody speechless.

Not that the ancient Brits called it that. That name can be attributed to the Greeks.