Stuart Mason: The Long Man of Wilmington Decode

Podcast: Earth Ancients · Cliff Dunning

Opublikowano: 2026-09-05

The "mysterious" Long Man of Wilmington, one of Britain's most recognizable chalk figures, sits proudly on the steep slopes of Windover Hill in East Sussex.According to the Sussex Archaeological Society, the giant, depicted as a standing human figure holding two long staves dates back to at least 1710 when the surveyor John Rowley illustrated the figure.James Neal, who looks after the figure on behalf of this charity, says it is accompanied by "a lot of mystery"."No-one really knows the true origins of the outline of the figure. Some people think that it's Neolithic, some people think that it's...