CERNE ABBAS GIANT

A club-wielding giant strides across the hillside in Dorset. He is nearly 55 metres tall, and as for his prodigious manhood... suffice it to say that he is a figure of formidable vigour in every respect. The Cerne Giant is a mystery, and peculiarly English. White figures, scoured into the chalk hillsides of the Downs, are found nowhere else in Europe. Their purpose is unknown. During the prudish Victorian era, the Giant’s phallus was erased by filling in the trenches, but in 1908 he was restored, though in the process his member was accidentally extended up to his navel. My theory is that his club is a cricket bat, for he looks over one of the loveliest village cricket grounds I’ve seen.