In Wiltshire, England, on May 25, a new pattern was discovered in a field. it is located not far from the ancient chalk figure "Uffington White Horse".
The Uffington White Horse is a highly stylized 110 m long chalk figure created by filling deep trenches with broken chalk on the side of the 261-meter limestone White Horse Hill near Uffington, Oxfordshire, England. It is under state protection as the only English geoglyph whose prehistoric origin is beyond doubt. It is believed that the subject of the image is a horse, but there is an assumption that it is a running wolfhound.
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Optical dating, carried out in 1994, allows the creation of the figure to be attributed to the Early Bronze Age (approximately 10th century BC). Prior to this study, estimates of the age of the geoglyph were much more modest. In the old days, the local population took the figure for a dragon. It was said that this is the same dragon that was defeated by the heavenly patron of England, Saint George, on the nearby Dragon Hill.
The creators of the image, apparently, were the inhabitants of a nearby settlement with an area of three hectares, which in ancient times was surrounded by an artificial moat. In order to prevent the figure from overgrowing with grass, it was regularly “weeded out” from generation to generation. As a rule, this procedure was carried out every seven years and coincided with the holding of a local fair. In the absence of proper care, chalk figures quickly become overgrown with grass and lose their contour definition.
Not far from the image is the prehistoric Ridgeway Road, which emerged around 3000 BC. e. and continued to be used in the Bronze and Iron Age.