Uffington White Horse

The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric hill figure, 110 m long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk [1]. The figure is situated on the upper slopes of Whitehorse Hill in the English civil parish of Uffington in Oxfordshire, some 16 km east of Swindon [1]. The hill forms a part of the scarp of the Berkshire Downs and overlooks the Vale of White Horse to the north [1]. The Uffington White Horse was created some time between 1380 and 550 BC, during the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age [1]. A cartulary of Abingdon Abbey, compiled between 1072 and 1084, refers to "mons albi equi" at Uffington [1]. The most significant nearby feature is the Iron Age Uffington Castle, located on higher ground atop a knoll above the White Horse [1].