ABSTRACT
The chalk downs of southern England are famous for their sweeping hills and grass swards kept flower-rich by sheep and rabbits. They are also stalked by white horses, great beasts created by filling trenches cut in the grassland with blocks of white chalk. There are twenty-four known white horses in the UK, thirteen of which are in Wiltshire. Most date from the period between 1700 and the late 1800s, though the most striking was created by Bronze Age Britons around 3000 years ago. All, though, carry power and mystery as they prance, canter or race across the landscape. Like the Nazca's geoglyph animals of the high Andes, these are designed to be seen from far away, and each one attracts myths and stories.
