Artnet

How Snail Shells Taught Scientists That a Famous Land Art Formation Was Thousands of Years Younger Than Believed

A massive figure in Dorset, England, of a naked man wielding a club, known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, is not prehistoric, as was previously believed, according to tests of snail shells found on the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Snail Shells Date England’s Cerne Abbas Giant to Medieval, Not Prehistoric, Era

Volunteers repair and re-chalk the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, England. The 180-foot figure has been on the grassy hillside as long as anyone alive can remember, but many wondered if it might be ...
BBC

Cerne Abbas Giant: Snails show chalk hill figure 'not prehistoric'

Snails have shown an ancient naked figure sculpted into a chalk hillside is unlikely to be prehistoric as hoped, archaeologists have said. Tests of soil samples extracted from Dorset's Cerne Abbas ...