Art of Gigantotomy??

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1. Saba
   

   Gigantotomy is the art of carving human-shaped hill figures, gigantic figures visible in chalk, or other light-coloured material.Located in upland areas of England, they are traditionally created by removing a layer of soil and turf so that the underlaying layer of bright chalk is visible as type of geoglyph designed to be seen from afar as a human figure.. More recently, gigantotomers have applied other techniques to make the figures visible, including simply painting atop the grass for a similar, though far more temporary, effect.
   
   While presumed to be of prehistoric origin, surviving examples may have been created only within the last four hundred years.Of these giants only two survive: one near the village of Cerne Abbas, to the north of Dorchester, in Dorset and one at Long Man civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex. Examples located at Oxford, Cambridge, and on Plymouth Hoe can no longer be seen with the naked eye

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