Self Portrait

Went for another walk today to Cerne Abbas and visited the Giant - and it is giant in all respects! The Cerne Abbas Giant or the 'Rude Man' is the largest hillfigure in Britain, and based on the photo I think you can guess its sex. The giant, carved in solid lines from the chalk bedrock measures in at 180 feet high carying a 120 feet knobbled club - I dont know how big his other appendage is? Mind you, in this weather I am amazed there is not more shrinkage. Recent theory given the most weight by historians is that it was created during the reign of the Emperor Commodus between 180 - 193 AD. It has also been put to some good use by the locals with women who wanted to conceive spending a night sleeping on his appendage or young couples would make love on the giant to ensure conception.