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> That would explain why he doesn’t appear in the abbey records or in Tudor surveys." Perhaps this figure was simply considered too rude to write about.
by dogorman 5y ago
> That would explain why he doesn’t appear in the abbey records or in Tudor surveys."
Perhaps this figure was simply considered too rude to write about.
- flir 5y agoIt has to be scoured, otherwise it grows over (some day we're going to figure out how to discover overgrown figures and find a lot more in Southern England). If it was too rude to write about, it was certainly too rude to maintain.
- irrational 5y agoI don’t think that is true. It was fussy religious types writing the records while it was probably the common illiterate people who thought it was funny that maintained it.
- flir 5y agoThe Abbey owned the hill. Personally, I think it's Hercules. The prediction in the 30s, "if it's Hercules he should be carrying a lion skin" followed by the discovery of the lion skin/cloak in the 70s, is pretty compelling. Why someone carved Hercules into a field in England? Not a clue.
- CRConrad 5y ago> ...it was probably the common illiterate people who thought it was funny that maintained it. Or maybe the common illiterate people thought it was important for the fertility of their crops and flocks (and possibly their own).