[Stones] Long Man of Wilmington

[Andy Norfolk]

Chris Butler has recently commented on the CBA's Britarch mailing list 
that the Long Man was never a conventional chalk hill figure.

He was involved in excavations which showed that the Long Man was not 
re-cut in the 19th century because it had never been cut in the first 
place. They found that it had been an outline in bricks from its 
original construction in the 16th century. At the end of the 19th 
century, during one of its many reinstatements, an attempt was made to 
see if it could be cut into the chalk, but it didn't work and they 
simply relaid the figure using bricks.

There will be an excavation report from Sussex Archaeological Society in 
due course.

Andy N


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