Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Occasional Paper No. 7, 1926.
The famous archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) here turns his attention to five English hill figures: the Long Man, the Cerne Giant, the Uffington Horse, and two crosses. Petrie was dissatisfied with what had been written previously about these figures. He provides the first accurate surveys of the figures, and speculates about what units of length might have been used in laying them out.
Because of the high accuracy that Petrie claimed for his plans, this website includes scans of the plates at 300 pixels per inch. Slight errors may however have been introduced by warping of the paper over time, and by the process of scanning (especially in the fold-outs, Plates V and VI). For convenience, reductions to 1/3 and 1/6 size are also included.
The digitized version contains the following Web pages:
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| Prelims (including Contents and Introduction) |
| Main text |
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| Front cover | |||
| Back cover | |||
| Title page | |||
| Plates | Full size | 1/3 size | 1/6 size |
| I. The Long Man of Wilmington | 1974 × 3522 | 658 × 1174 | 329 × 587 |
| II. The Site of the Long Man | 2496 × 3240 | 832 × 1080 | 416 × 540 |
| III. The Giant of Cerne | 2442 × 3222 | 814 × 1074 | 407 × 537 |
| IV. The Maypole Earthwork | 2448 × 3540 | 816 × 1180 | 408 × 590 |
| V. The Earthworks around the Giant | 5202 × 3276 | 1734 × 1092 | 867 × 546 |
| VI. The White Horse of Uffington | 5088 × 2226 | 1696 × 742 | 848 × 371 |
| VII. The Earthworks of the White Horse | 2184 × 3342 | 728 × 1114 | 364 × 557 |
| VIII. The Crosses of Whiteleaf and Bledlow | 2736 × 3462 | 912 × 1154 | 456 × 577 |
| IX. Wayland Smith’s Cave. Smacam Earthworks | 2532 × 3312 | 844 × 1104 | 422 × 552 |
