This enormous hill-figure is 55 m high and 51 m wide and quite unique in the British Isles. The trenches which form its outline are filled with chalk and are about 0.30m wide and 0.30 deep. When the Giant was cut is still very much a matter of speculation but more recent research tends to give it a late seventeen century date, perhaps as a caricature of Cromwell. At one time it was thought to be a representation of Hercules, cut at the end of the 2nd century AD by Roman soldiers. During the last war the giant was coed to prevent it to be used as a landmark by the Germans. Above the Giant there is a small square enclosure thought to be of Iron Age date.