The Uffington White Horse geoglyph as sun-horse
The Uffington White Horse geoglyph as sun-horse
The Uffington White Horse is a unique later prehistoric geoglyph worked onto the chalk hillside of the Berkshire Downs in southern England. This large figure has seen little new interpretation since the early twentieth century. Unable to explain the form satisfactorily, archaeologists have shied away from acknowledging the distinct nature of the horse and its probable importance to previous occupants of the land. By reviewing the image’s context within the broader archaeological landscape, the argument can now be made that the Uffington carving is a representation of the sun-horse found in iconography throughout later prehistoric Europe.
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Pollard, Joshua
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April 2017
Pollard, Joshua
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Abstract
The Uffington White Horse is a unique later prehistoric geoglyph worked onto the chalk hillside of the Berkshire Downs in southern England. This large figure has seen little new interpretation since the early twentieth century. Unable to explain the form satisfactorily, archaeologists have shied away from acknowledging the distinct nature of the horse and its probable importance to previous occupants of the land. By reviewing the image’s context within the broader archaeological landscape, the argument can now be made that the Uffington carving is a representation of the sun-horse found in iconography throughout later prehistoric Europe.
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Uffington paper Antiquity accepted.pdf
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Accepted/In Press date: 12 May 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 April 2017
Published date: April 2017
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Local EPrints ID: 396579
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/396579
ISSN: 0003-598X
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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 05:39
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