11-04-2010, 01:35 PM
Quote:The Late Bronze / Early Iron Age monument turns out to be... a dog! :roll:It most certainly does not. It's just a 'personal opinion' treated by newspapers as if it were a major discovery. No one knows either the exact date of construction nor the exact animal (IF a real animal) represented. Also, we should take the possibility into account that the figure changed over time (the Cerne Abbas Giant once had a cloak over his left arm).
Personally I see more links with pre-Roman coins from Britain, apparently adorned with horses. So to me it's a horse, and a beautiful one.
Quote:Our prehistoric chalk-carving ancestors appear to have had eclectic tastes.No doubt, but the right-hand figure was not carved by 'prehistoric chalk-carving ancestors'. The Cerne Abbas Giant (Dorset, UK) is either Roman or even post-Medieval, plus the phallus was 'elongated' even later. :wink:
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
