Episode 219 - The Ridgeway: a walk through time along England's oldest road
The English Heritage Podcast
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The White Horse and Dragon Hill
The horse was made in scandinavia or at least influenced by scandinavian design it was influential for thousands of years now the next question is dragon hill why is it called dragon hill that's another sort of inscribed more modern sort of inscription on the landscape of a different mythology. The idea is that the dragon sort of scorched the earth and some people even think the white horse is actually because of the shape of it so there's a more historical christian sort of relevance that's been put onto this place.
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