 | Archibald Robertson - England - 1792 - 294 pages
...the year 878. This figure is fifty-four feet from the toe to the chest, and to the tip of the ear, one hundred feet high, and from ear to tail, one hundred feet long, resembling that by which Alfred commemorated his victory over the Danes in Berkshire, eight years before;... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1823 - 636 pages
...face of the hill, near Edindon, there is a most curious monument unnoticed by Bishop Gibson. It is a white horse, in a walking attitude, cut out of the...high, and from ear to tail one hundred feet long. The learned editor of Camden thinks, that it was made tq commemorate this celebrated victory, p. 100,... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1840 - 392 pages
...face of the hill, near Edindon, there is a most curious monument unnoticed by Bishop Gibson. It is a •white horse, in a walking attitude, cut out of...feet high, from his toe to his chest ; and to the lip of his ear near one hundred feet high, and from ear to tail one hundred feet long. The learned... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1840 - 386 pages
...face of the hill, new Edindon, there is a most curious monument unnoticed by Bishop Gibson. И ¡s ' •white horse, in a walking attitude, cut out of the chalk, fifty-four feet higb, fro"1 his toe to his chest; and to the tip of his ear near one hundred feet high, and from ear... | |
 | John Alonzo Clark - Europe - 1840 - 588 pages
...Wiltshire, on the side of the hill upon which stands Bratton Castle, near Edington, there is the figure of a white horse in a walking attitude, cut out of the chalk forming the substratum of the soil, in the same manner as this at Cherril ; which some learned antiquarians... | |
 | John Alonzo Clark - Europe - 1840 - 476 pages
...Wiltshire, on the side of the hill upon which stands Bratton Castle, near Edington, there is the figure of a white horse, in a walking attitude, cut out of the chalk forming the substratum of the soil, in the same manner as this at Cherril ; which some learned antiquarians... | |
 | John Allen Giles - Great Britain - 1848 - 458 pages
...abounding with petrifactions, belemnites, spines of echini, &c. On the south-west fafce of the hill is a most curious monument unnoticed by Bishop Gibson...fifty-four feet high from his toe to his chest, and to the i Yet Dr. Whiiakcr [p. 269.] " supposes the fortress to which the Danes fled to have been the double... | |
 | Edward N. Marks - 1854 - 394 pages
...accede to these mild proposals ; * A triumphal memorial of this victory still exists in the figure of a white horse, in a walking attitude, cut out of the chalk of the hill, near Westbury, in Wiltshire. The standard of the Saxons was a white horse. but before... | |
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... of his ear near one hundred feet high, and from ear to tail one hundred feet long. The learned editor of Camden thinks, that it was made to commemorate this celebrated victory, p. 