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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Uffington White HorseCountry: England County: Oxfordshire Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Nearest Town: Swindon Nearest Village: Uffington
Map Ref: SU30128662 Landranger Map Number: 174
Latitude: 51.577644N Longitude: 1.566742W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Hordernm visited on 1st May 2023 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3
vanoflife visited on 12th Oct 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Another visit to one of my favourite sites
aolson visited on 24th Jun 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3 We just caught oblique glimpses of it from the road below. Once at the horse itself, it is surprising just how small the cuts in the turf are. I was expecting them to be measured in yards, but instead you could measure them in feet, or inches in some places. I'm sure there are better places to view it, but it was great to see the way it was made up close.
Harmudge visited on 4th Jun 2017 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Jansold visited on 24th Oct 2016 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Chrononaut1962 visited on 12th Sep 2016 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 3
ModernExplorers visited on 19th Dec 2012 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Surrounded by some really nice countryside and some interestingly shaped hills
SolarMegalith visited on 26th Feb 2011 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 4
TheWhiteRider visited on 22nd Jun 2010 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
woodini254 visited on 27th Sep 2009 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5
lucacdo1 visited on 1st Jul 2009 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
ChrisHealey visited on 22nd Jun 2008 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 4
Richard13 visited on 1st Jun 2004 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
cactus_chris visited on 1st Jan 2003 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Visit in 2003 whilst on holiday.
wildtalents visited on 1st Jul 2002 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 2 Access: 4 You don't get much of an impression of the horse, if it is a horse, when you're up close, especially on a mid-summer day when the site is absolutely crawling with visitors, ice-cream vans etc. As you approach the site the figure is much more distinct though and it's very worth the trip, especially if you follow the footpath along the Ridgeway to Wayland's Smithy. Liable to be very busy too. Not long after we visited some arseholes from the Countryside Alliance or some similar bunch of Tarquins created a red-coated 'rider' as some kind of celebration of fox hunting. Turds.
RedKite1985 visited on 1st Jan 1997 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
Orcinus visited on 1st Jan 1989 - their rating: Amb: 3
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Lazulilou visited - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 3 Access: 4
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.32 Ambience: 4.1 Access: 3.78
The Uffington White Horse is a highly stylized prehistoric hill figure situated on the upper slopes of White Horse Hill. The figure has been shown to date to the Bronze Age, by means of optically stimulated luminescence dating carried out following archaeological investigations in 1994. These studies produced three dates ranging between 1400 and 600 BC.
Iron Age coins that bear a representation comparable to the Uffington White Horse have been found, supporting the early dating of this artifact; counter suggestions that the figure was fashioned in the Anglo-Saxon period now seem untenable. Uffington is by far the oldest of the white horse figures in Britain, and is of an entirely different design from the others.
It has long been debated whether the chalk figure was intended to represent a horse or some other animal. The site is owned and managed by the National Trust. Last time we visited, a handy guide book to the monuments in the area could be purchased at the carpark.
Part based on material from Wikipedia
See below for an Uffington comic illustration by Dr H who blogs at https://prehistories.wordpress.com/ and has an Etsy (art) shop which features Tales from the Rock Face comics and badges https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Prehistories
Note: Exclusive: New, much earlier, date for the Uffington White Horse made public, which pushes it back to (possibly) the Early Bronze Age, 2020 - 1330 BC
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