White Horse Gallery

Uffington White Horse, Oxfordshire, UK

The Uffington White Horse is a highly stylised prehistoric hill figure, 110 m long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk. The figure has been shown to date back some 3, 000 years, to the Bronze Age, by means of optically stimulated luminescence dating carried out following archaeological investigations in 1994. These studies produced three dates ranging between 1400 and 600 BC. Iron Age coins that bear a representation comparable to the Uffington White Horse have been found, supporting the early dating of this artifact; counter suggestions that the figure was fashioned in the Anglo-Saxon period now seem untenable. Numerous other prominent prehistoric sites are located nearby, notably Wayland's Smithy long barrow. The Uffington is by far the oldest of the white horse figures in Britain, and is of an entirely different design from the others

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Roundway Down 33629_009

Roundway Down, Wiltshire, 2018. Part of the site of the Battle of Roundway Down 1643 and the new white horse that was cut in 1999 by local people to commemorate the millennium - the only one in Wiltshire and one of only four in Britain to face to the right. SU0163

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Aerial, Battlefield, Hill Figure, White Horse

White stallion on a Wild Horse Sanctuary, California, USA

White stallion named Phantom, one of the saved mustangs on a ranch in northern California at a Wild Horse Sanctuary. The Sanctuary is located near Shingletown, California on 5,000 acres of lush lava rock-strewn mountain meadow and forest land. Their goals are to increase public awareness of the genetic, biological, and social value of America's wild horses through pack trips on the sanctuary, publications, mass media, and public outreach programs; continue to develop a working, replicable model for the proper and responsible management of wild horses in their natural habitat; demonstrate that wild horses can co-exist on the open range in ecological balance with many diverse species of wildlife, including black bear, bobcat, mountain lion, wild turkeys, badger, and gray fox; collaborate with research projects in order to document the intricate and unique social structure, biology, reversible fertility control, and native intelligence of the wild horse; Shingletown, California, United States of America

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