Secondly, this trait is gratuitously showing disrespect for hill figures as monuments. Some are only a few years old, Uffington is prehistoric, but every single one means rather a lot to countless millions of individuals and thousands of groups. Hill figures are used as symbols of region and county, local and community identity. Shops and businesses are named after them, and of course many are venerated in historic and spiritual ways. They are monuments and as such are part of our historic environment. Is it then right that these symbols that are so cared for and expensively maintained should suffer degradation and insult even when this is so called harmless fun for charity, as in the case of the red nose day horse ?