List of figures and tables Acknowledgements Contributors Foreword: Our Cerne Giant by Kate Adie Part 1: The Cerne Giant: excavation and dating the Giant 1. Place, person and context: an introduction to the Cerne Giant Michael J. Allen 2. The new research: dating the Giant; reconnaissance, aims and methods Michael J. Allen 3. Research results: fieldwork, dating and analysis Michael J. Allen High resolution photogrammetric survey (3-D ground surface model) (Michael J. Allen) Geophysical surveys (Andrew David, Tony Clark, Alister Bartlett, Paul Linford, Megan Clements and Paul Cheetham) Excavation results (Michael J. Allen and Martin Papworth) Auger surveys (Michael J. Allen) Optically stimulated luminescence dating (Phillip Toms, Jamie Wood and Michael J. Allen) The land-use history of a hillside: land mollusc evidence (Michael J. Allen) Discussion and conclusions: putting the Giant in his place in the landscape (Michael J. Allen) 4. The Giant and the early medieval history of Cerne Barbara Yorke 5. Hide and seek on a Dorset hillside Brian Edwards 6. Know your Giant Brian Edwards 7. The Giant’s story: the archaeological results considered Michael J. Allen Main conclusions The date of the Giant The sleeping Giant At least two Giants Outline and form Recording scouring and maintenance activities Conclusion The Giant timeline (Brian Edwards and Michael J. Allen) Acknowledgements Part 2: The Giant in context 8. The Saxon Abbey of Cerne: an introduction to the Abbey and recent archaeological research Michael J. Allen 9. The tenth-century Cerne Abbey: Benedictine ecclesiastical reform and land management Katherine Barker 10. The Cerne Giant: an antiquity on trial 1996; a summary Katherine Barker 11. Why did we think the Giant was ancient? Timothy Darvill 12. Giant assumptions: locating chalk figures within prehistory Susan Greaney 13. Images of the Giant Sarah Fry 14. A research agenda for the Giant Michael J. Allen Part 3: Giant considerations: wider reflections on the results Context and contrasts 15. The Long Man of Wilmington: a progress report on a giant conundrum Martin Bell and Chris Butler 16. I will survive: the continuing story of the Uffington White Horse David Miles and Simon Palmer 17. Two chalk giants: Wilmington and Cerne revisited Rodney Castleden Essays and reflections 18. Implications of the hill figure dates Ronald Hutton 19. Heroes, kings and giants at assembly places Stuart Brookes 20. Wiltshire’s chalk equine hill figures: what’s the problem? Garry Gibbons 21. Hill figures in the landscape: contexts, survival and function Tom Williamson 22. Hill figures: retrospective and a national research agenda Michael J. Allen and Win Scutt Appendices Appendix 1: Description of Giant Hill and chalk grassland vegetation; loose insert in National Trust Management Plan November 1974 Appendix 2: Placing Cerne Abbas ‘On the Map’; Stuart Piggott’s 1946 BBC radio broadcast (21 June 1946) on the theme of the Giant (Jan Lewis) Appendix 3: National Trust Management Plan November 1974; Appendix 2, The Cerne Giant: Schedule of Works Appendix 4: Location of OSL sample 1 Bibliography Index