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Far from jumping down your throat, I think this has the potential to be a fascinating mystery. It's a given that most hill figures (certainly the white horses of Wiltshire) are not prehistoric - many are relatively recent. The exception being the Uffington White Horse, which as you pointed out may well have looked quite different to how it looks today.

I think the Foxhill image, which may well have existed as a land figure, may be medieval. I've been looking at illustrations of medieval rural life and there are similarities in the clothes.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/medieval/rural/rurallife.html

Also, the owl was not necessarily a good omen in the Middle Ages, the opposite in fact.
http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast245.htm

Could be this image was a depiction of something rather more unpleasant than our current folk-lore inclinations suggest.

The real mystery to me is why people are so willing to believe there's anything in this at all before they've seen anything more than a newspaper article puffing it up. And apparently there's not just one but two figures here! Wouldn't there be any mention of such a thing somewhere written down, drawn, on a coin, whatever? And the discoverer thinks one figure is Neolithic, the other Saxon? When we haven't got any Neolithic or Saxon figures in this country? Does this not ring alarm bells. It really ought to. There's more written examples, anecdotal evidence, drawings, stories, etc of fairies. And apparently they don't even exist!