The 'Cerne Abbas Giant' is a 180 foot high carved hill figure located in which county?
Cerne Abbas Giant of its age, the Cerne Abbas Giant has become an important part of local culture and folklore, which often associates it with fertility. It is one of England's best known hill figures and is a visitor attraction in the region. The Giant is located just outside the small village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, about west of Bournemouth and north of Weymouth. The figure depicts a naked man and is of colossal dimensions, being about high and wide. It is cut into the steep west-facing side of a hill known as Giant Hill or Trendle Hill. Atop the hill is
Cerne Abbas east window which probably came from the abbey. The best known attraction is the Cerne Abbas Giant, a 55-metre (180 ft) naked figure carved into the chalk hillside. The giant, owned by the National Trust, is thought by many to be an Iron Age fertility symbol but, as it is unlikely that the monks of Cerne Abbey would have tolerated such a figure, and with no records before the 17th century, this cannot be confirmed. Many scholars now think that it was created in the mid-17th century, although there is evidence of Iron Age settlement on the downs nearby. Each