Land Traces

The thing that really gets me about the Uffington White Horse is how did they know what they were doing back in the Bronze Age? It can only be seen as a whole figure if you’re some distance North in the plain below or almost directly above it in the air. Of all the 16 white horse figures in England this is the oldest, most abstract, most beautiful and easily the most animated hill figure. As far as I can work out the only way they could do it was that they roughly planned it with chalk-whitened sticks placed in the hill side and then someone about a couple of miles away running back and forth making slight adjustments until they were happy about its appearance, then they could start cutting. Just a theory!