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The Long Man of Wilmington or Wilmington Giant is a
hill figure A hill figure is a large visual representation created by cutting into a steep hillside and revealing the underlying geology. It is a type of geoglyph usually designed to be seen from afar rather than above. In some cases trenches are dug and r ...
on the steep slopes of Windover Hill near
Wilmington, East Sussex __NOTOC__ Long Man is a civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England, which includes the villages of Wilmington, Milton Street and Folkington. The parish is named after the Long Man of Wilmington, a chalk figure in the parish. ...
, England. It is northwest of
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and south of Wilmington. Locally, the figure was once often called the "Green Man". The Long Man is tall, holds two "staves", and is designed to look in proportion when viewed from below. Formerly thought to originate in the
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or even the
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period, a 2003 archaeological investigation showed that the figure may have been cut in the Early Modern era – the 16th or 17th century AD. From afar the figure appears to have been carved from the underlying chalk; but the modern figure is formed from white-painted
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s and lime mortar. The Long Man is one of two major extant human hill figures in England; the other is the
Cerne Abbas Giant The Cerne Abbas Giant is a hill figure near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England. high, it depicts a standing nude male with a prominent erection and wielding a large club in its right hand. Like many other hill figures it is outli ...
, north of Dorchester. Both are
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. Two other hill figures that include humans are the
Osmington White Horse __NOTOC__ The Osmington White Horse is a hill figure cut into the limestone of Osmington Hill just north of Weymouth in Dorset in 1808. It is in the South Dorset Downs in the parish of Osmington. The figure is of King George III riding his ...
and the Fovant regimental badges. The Long Man is also one of two hill figures in East Sussex; the other is the
Litlington White Horse The Litlington White Horse is a chalk hill figure depicting a horse, situated on Hindover Hill (known locally as High-and-Over) in the South Downs, looking over the River Cuckmere to the west of the village of Litlington and north of East Bla ...
, 3 miles south-west of the Long Man.


Origins

The origin of the Long Man remains unclear. For many years the earliest known record was a drawing made by William Burrell when he visited
Wilmington Priory Wilmington Priory was a Benedictine priory in the civil parish of Long Man, East Sussex, England. The surviving building is now owned by the Landmark Trust and let as holiday accommodation. It is both a Grade I listed building and a scheduled mon ...
, near Windover (or Wind-door) Hill, in 1766. Burrell's drawing shows a figure holding a rake and a
scythe A scythe ( ) is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or harvesting crops. It is historically used to cut down or reap edible grains, before the process of threshing. The scythe has been largely replaced by horse-drawn and then tractor m ...
, both shorter than the present staves. In 1993, another drawing was discovered in the Devonshire Collections at
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which had been made by the surveyor John Rowley in 1710, now the first definite date on which the figure is known to have existed. An early suggestion, sometimes stated to be a local tradition, was that the Long Man had been cut by monks from nearby Wilmington Priory, and represented a
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, but this was not widely believed by
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s, who felt that monks were unlikely to have created an unclothed figure. Until fairly recently the Long Man was most commonly asserted to have been cut in the
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period, primarily due to the presence of a
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nearby, or given an
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attribution based on a perceived similarity to other hill figures. John North wrote that during the centuries around 3480 BC the figure would have been positioned to mark the
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's movement across the ridge above it. The figure, according to this interpretation, may have been a manifestation of a Neolithic astral religion. Another suggestion was that the figure had a
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provenance, while an origin in the time of
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gained credence after the 1965 discovery at
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in
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of an Anglo-Saxon brooch depicting a figure, (possibly
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), holding two spears in a similar fashion to the Long Man. Archaeological work performed in 2003 by Martin Bell of the
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, in association with
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programme ''Landscape Mysteries'', strongly suggested that the figure dates from the Early Modern period – the 16th or 17th century AD. Bell found that the slope on which the Long Man was cut had gone through a period of instability in this time, after a very long prior period of stability, suggesting that the figure was first cut then. This has opened up the possibility that the Long Man could be a Tudor or Stuart-era political satire in the manner recently posited for the Cerne Abbas giant, or possibly a religious image associated with the
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:
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noted that "we can at least celebrate the fact that we have our first, apparently unequivocally, Early Modern hill figure, and historians now have to reckon with it."


Pre-20th century history

Whatever the figure's origin, for much of its history it seems to have existed only as a shadow or indentation in the grass, visible after a light fall of snow or as a different shade of green in summer: it is described or illustrated as such in 1710, 1781, 1800, 1835 and 1851. Indeed, the figure was once known locally as the "Green Man". Earlier depictions, such as those of Rowley and Burrell, show other details such as a possible scythe blade on the right-hand staff and the suggestion of a helmet or hat on the figure's head: they also indicate a different, albeit indistinct, position for the feet. The current outline of the Long Man is largely the result of a 'restoration' of 1873–74, when a group led by the vicar of
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, Reverend William de St Croix, marked out the outline with yellow bricks
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ed and cemented together, though it has been claimed that the restoration process distorted the position of the feet. The archaeologist John S. Phené, who was co-opted into the project and whose 1873 talk to the
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had originally inspired it, initially expressed his reservations with both the bricking and the design used. The original intention of the 'restoration' had been to cut the figure down to the
chalk Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton that had settled to the sea floor. Chalk ...
bedrock, but had been abandoned after trials showed that the soil depth made this too difficult. In the years after the 'restoration' several people familiar with the figure commented that the feet were altered, having originally both pointed outwards and downwards so that "the Giant appeared to be coming down the hill", in the words of Ann Downs, who had grown up at Wilmington Priory in the 1840s. Resistivity surveys conducted in the 1990s by R. Castleden, combined with examination of apparent
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shown in early photographs, have provided strong evidence that the feet had in fact pointed outwards as described by 19th century observers and had been slightly lower than in the current outline. The surveys showed that the figure had likely been originally cut by trenching, in the same manner as other chalk hill figures, but had been abandoned after only a few scourings. There was also some evidence to suggest that the feature on one staff similar to a
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blade, flail or shepherd's crook was genuine, along with a suggestion of a "helmet" or hat. It seems likely that the proportions of the figure have been distorted slightly by the 1873 bricking and the 1969 replacement of the bricks with
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s, with the Long Man having been up to tall prior to 1873.


20th and 21st centuries

In 1925, the site of the Long Man was given to the Sussex Archaeological Trust (now the
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) by the
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. During the
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it was painted green to avoid it being used as a landmark by German aircraft. The 1993 book, ''The Druid Way'' by Sussex author Philip Carr-Gomm, drew attention to the supposed significance of the Long Man as a sacred site for the modern world. At dawn on
May Day May Day is a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May, around halfway between the spring equinox and summer solstice. Festivities may also be held the night before, known as May Eve. T ...
, the Long Man
Morris Men Morris dancing is a form of English folk dance. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers, usually wearing bell pads on their shins. Implements such as sticks, swords and handkerchiefs may ...
dance at the foot of the Long Man. The Long Man plays host to
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rituals on Sundays closest to the eight
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through the year. In 2007, the site was used in television fashion show ''
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''.
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,
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and 100 women gave the Long Man a temporary female form by using their bodies to add pigtails, breasts and hips. The women created the effect by lying down in white
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s to make shapes."Dance tutor defends role in Long Man Sex change"
''Sussex Express''. Retrieved 14 October 2007.
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were given permission for the event by Sussex Archaeological Society and that they took "the utmost care ... to protect this historical site". The hillside chalk carving was not permanently changed or affected. However the scene prompted twenty-two Neo-Pagans to protest at the site during filming. The Long Man is claimed as 'sacred' by the
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, who said the 'stunt' would "dishonour an ancient Pagan site of worship"."Pagans object to Long Man filming"
''BBC News''. Retrieved 6 July 2007.
The owners, Sussex Archaeological Society, later apologised for any offence caused to any "individuals or groups" by the filming. Overnight, on 17/18 June 2010 a giant
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was painted on the Long Man rivalling that of the
Cerne Abbas Giant The Cerne Abbas Giant is a hill figure near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England. high, it depicts a standing nude male with a prominent erection and wielding a large club in its right hand. Like many other hill figures it is outli ...
. Observed by locals it appeared that a football pitch marker or similar object was used to paint the phallus. On 16 October 2015, anti-fracking protesters added the words "FRACK OFF!" above the Long Man, in protest against fracking being approved in the area. The words were removed quickly and were believed to have been made out of
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. On 27 January 2021, during the
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, a face mask was painted on to the Long Man.


Literary inclusions

In Arthur Beckett's 1909 ''Spirit of the Downs'', a chapter is dedicated to the Long Man of Wilmington, in "The Hero on the Hill", and gives a fictional account of the invading Saxon's victory over the Britons, who celebrate by drawing an enormous figure on the Downs.
Eleanor Farjeon Eleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. Several of her works had illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Some of her correspondence has also be ...
, in her book ''Martin Pippin in the Daisy Field'' (1937), gives a fancy origin of the giant in a form of a folktale told by Martin Pippin the bard to six young girls in the daisy field. In his comic ''The Sandman'' #19 (1990),
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interprets the figure as the guardian of a gateway into
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. The Long Man plays a prominent role in the
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comic book ''The Circle of Power'' (1998). The giant is omnipresent in the post-apocalyptic future of the science-fiction book by
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''The Pleasures of a Futuroscope'' written in 1955. The figure also features in ''The Old Weird Albion'' by Justin Hopper and ''The Light Keeper'' by
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. The Long Man is frequently referenced in the works of English SF/Fantasy author
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.


Musical interpretations

The Long Man has long been an influence on artists, musicians, and authors. The composers
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and
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would often picnic at the foot of the figure. It has inspired ''The Long Man's Legs'' (SAB Choir, soprano soloist and narrater) by Tony Biggin and ''On Windover Hill'' by Nathan James, which was premiered at
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, near
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, by the
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and Harlequin Chamber Choir on 7 March 2020. The figure was also an influence on Avril Coleridge-Taylor's work for chorus and orchestra, ''Wyndore'', which was written in
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in 1936. The folk-singer, Maria Cunningham, wrote a folk song about the Long Man in 1996. Electronic pop group
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shot the promotional video for their 1982 single "Mr Blunt" at the Long Man.


In fiction

In the children's television programme ''
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'' twelfth-series episode ''The Man in The Hills'', The Man in The Hills is based on The Long Man of Wilmington. In the ninth episode of the Japanese TV series '' Cowboy Bebop'', "Jamming with Edward", an image of the Long Man is seen briefly alongside other landscape carvings, although now it is located in South America.


See also

*
Firle Corn Firle Beacon is a hill in the South Downs of southern England. It is 217 metres high and is a Marilyn. It commands a far-reaching view. When the prevailing wind is northerly, the site is often used for gliding activities like slope soaring. Bar ...
*
Cerne Abbas Giant The Cerne Abbas Giant is a hill figure near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England. high, it depicts a standing nude male with a prominent erection and wielding a large club in its right hand. Like many other hill figures it is outli ...
*
Hill figure A hill figure is a large visual representation created by cutting into a steep hillside and revealing the underlying geology. It is a type of geoglyph usually designed to be seen from afar rather than above. In some cases trenches are dug and r ...
*
Litlington White Horse The Litlington White Horse is a chalk hill figure depicting a horse, situated on Hindover Hill (known locally as High-and-Over) in the South Downs, looking over the River Cuckmere to the west of the village of Litlington and north of East Bla ...
*
Uffington White Horse The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric hill figure, long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk. The figure is situated on the upper slopes of White Horse Hill in the English civil parish of Uffington (in the cerem ...
*
Marree Man The Marree Man, or Stuart's Giant, is a modern geoglyph discovered in 1998. It appears to depict an Indigenous Australian man hunting with a boomerang or stick. It lies on a plateau at Finnis Springs west of the township of Marree in centra ...


References


Bibliography

*''The Wilmington Giant: The Quest for a Lost Myth'', Rodney Castleden, Turnstone Press (1983). * *


External links


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