3,000 Year Old White Horse Of Uffington, England

An iconic geoglyph set in a sacred landscape.

Linda Acaster
Escape Into History
5 min readDec 4, 2021

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3000 year old chalk hill figure of a white horse, Uffington, Oxfordshire, England
Image by Dave Price, taken from paramotor. CCA-SA.2.0 via Wikimedia

There are upwards of fifteen White Horse rock-sculptures in Britain, most cut into chalk hillsides where the turf is thin. They date from the late 18th through to the 20th century, and all pay homage to the White Horse of Uffington, Oxfordshire.

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Linda Acaster
Escape Into History

British multi-genre fiction author who haunts historical sites - check out her publication 'Escape Into History'. For novel links: www.lindaacaster.com