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The Glastonbury zodiac, that was exactly what I was going to say but you beat me by a hair's breadth!
I think we're hard wired to see patterns and shapes in things, to make sense of things (to see the beast of prey before it leaps out of the bushes and eats us). You can't beat a bit of 'computer enhancement' to sharpen up the contrast and then your mind is tempted to see even more. That's the cynic's view of course. Maybe sometimes the things are really there. There's no denying aerial photos have been instrumental in spotting lots of hitherto unknown archaeological sites, haven't they. I'm not holding my breath until they get to mars and check out the Face though. So I don't mean to dismiss out of hand what you've spent time investigating, but I am inclined to think the simulacra thing is more likely, considering there aren't any other examples of human figures carved large on the landscape in this country (Apart from at Cerne and Wilmington).

Rhiannon
Thank you also for your response. The wonderful, amazing truth, Rhiannon, is that these facial portraits are all over the place, from small sizes to mega-large size, but we never had the tools to see them. How old is Google Earth, or its Topographic equivalent ESOP01?

Or, if the tools existed to see strange forms, the orientation of that artwork might be upside down from today's North-South orientation, making them indecipherable (is that a word?).

Let me give you an example, so as not to overwhelm you. The King portrait itself, that I posted, if you look in the crown/fez area, you may see an additional embedded portrait, only his orientation is about 6 degrees ccw from the larger King portrait.

Another example, if you have Google Earth, I am proposing that the county outline of West Berkshire is a mega-sized outline of a King, only his orientation is 90 degrees clockwise.

If the precessional drift around the constellation is 25,000 years, and we make the flawed assumption that the King of West Berkshire was built facing West upon his death, then the date of construction might be guesstimated at 6000 years ago, when today's "East" was yesteryear's North. Guesses, stacked on Taxi theory, dumped on too much caffiene, two beers, sure, even I can make a wonderful pronoucement to the world, but I can't call them accurate, I am only tabling my Taxi Driving observations for real historians to view and reject or analyze, and maybe it is all rubbish.

I am guessing also though, that agricultural Kingdoms had a major problem in managing their people, after harvesting, and before planting, you have 100,000 inactive people. What do you do with them? You might put them to work building defensive walls, in the shapes of Kings/Queens that could only be seen by the Gods anyways. And in 1000 years, when the memory of that King is lost, someone else comes along and builds another image right on top of the old.

Your countryside is saturated with King/Queen and artistic images. But where do I put those images to show you? Other than a few very good websites, which don't tend towards extreme hysterical responses, there is no place to share these observations.

Put me to work, pick a location and let me show you the stone-outline artwork in the soils.

I'm not holding my breath until they get to mars and check out the Face though.....

NASA made a special effort to check it out on a subsequent mission Rhiannon as there were so many websites saying they were covering something up. Sadly, it's just a lump when seen from another angle. Not sure they've added to the sum total of human happiness though.