The White Horse of Uffington at the edge of the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire, directly below an Iron Age hill fort, England. The 111,3 m long horse is adventurously stylized: two legs in search of a barrel. Present-day observers have speculated that it is meant to be a fox - or a dragon, or a greyhound, or even an ichthysaurus. In contrast, such doubts were never cast on the horse in the old sources, and in a 14th c. treatise on the wonders of Britain it ranks immediately after Stonehenge. When cut from the turf in the Iron Age, it must have been a kind of totem, an emblem to the local Celtic tribe. It survived three thousand years thanks to the impact it had on the local inhabitants: every few years (seven is often mentioned, a holy number) they scoured the chalk amidst celebrations and festivities. It is the only White Horse facing right.

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