The curious tale of an Anglo-Saxon giant

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🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Tom Morcom and Helen Gittos discuss the Cerne Abbas Giant, a huge hill-carving in Dorset which has recently been re-dated to the Anglo-Saxon period The Cerne Abbas Giant, a huge hill-carving in Dorset, has made the news recently for been re-dated to the Anglo-Saxon period. Dr Tom Morcom and Dr Helen Gittos from the University of Oxford reveal what this might mean for our understanding of the giant, and what it can tell us about Anglo-Saxon society more generally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.1	Why is a chocolate box dorset village home to a huge chalk hillside carving of a naked man with a very obvious penis?
1:26.3	Our content director, David Musgrove, called Drs Tom
1:30.3	Morkham and Helen Gittos to find out more about the Cern Abbas giant, which has been in the
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