<p>This is a scan from a 35mm transparency which I took in the mid 1970s at Cerne Abbas in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset,_England" class="extiw" title="en:Dorset, England">Dorset, England</a>. It shows a detail of the (extremely virile) chalk hill-figure called the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant" class="extiw" title="w:Cerne Abbas Giant">Cerne Abbas Giant</a>. He has long been believed to be prehistoric, but modern scholarship doubts this: the earliest written references to him are 18th century and he is now thought to have been cut as a skit or lampoon of a local politician, representing him as a naked Hercules.
This scan is in the Public Domain (however, I retain ownership and copyright of the original transparency and any higher-resolution scans derived from it).
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If this image is used outside Wikipedia a photographer's credit (Simon Garbutt) would be much appreciated! <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SiGarb" title="User:SiGarb">SiGarb</a> 17:29, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
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11 December 2005 (original upload date)
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