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Hard times for the Cerne Giant: 20th-century attitudes to an ancient monument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Temple Willcox
Temple Willcox*
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Burnfoot Farmhouse, Allmheaits, Hexham, Northumberland NE47 9JG
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The Cerne Abbas Giant, most graphic of English hill-figures, is of uncertain date - arguably Roman or pre-Roman, but absent from all documentary records of its Dorset region before the mid 18th century. Previous ANTIQUITY contributors (Grinsell 1980: Bettey 1981) have set out its known early history anti lack of history. Here the story is told ofthe survival through this century of the Giant's remarkable genitals.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 236 , September 1988 , pp. 524 - 526
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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