A Date with the Two Cerne Giants: Reinvestigating an Iconic British Hill Figure (The National Trust Excavations 2020)

Provides a scientifically verified date for the Cerne Giant, revealing its origins in the Anglo-Saxon period and prompting new discussions on its historical and archaeological significance.

The date of the Cerne Giant has long been a matter for debate, as exemplified by a public and televised debate of March 1996, published as The Cerne Giant: An Antiquity on Trial (1999, Oxbow Books). Excavations were conducted in 2020 by the National Trust in the centenary year of its ownership of the Gian...