The Uffington White Horse is a figure, 395ft long, cut in the chalk near the top of an escarpment in the Berkshire Downs. No one knows who put it there, or why, but there have been plenty of theories. It depicts a strange creature, with what looks like a bird’s beak where you would expect a horse’s jaws to be, and some have claimed it is not a horse but a dragon.
Among those who grant it is a horse, many interpret it as a tribal banner, meant to intimidate the people around. Some believe it was the symbol of Boadicea’s Iceni tribe who fought the Romans. But the more usual view has been that the White Horse was Saxon. Maybe it commemorated the arrival
