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Scaling up a small drawing to a large one is no problem to people with such skills as the Iron Age people had. If you can work out intricate geometric patterns that fit exactly around a stone etc then you can scale up a few curves. As Uffington isn't properly visible from below it couldn't have been done by a bloke at the bottom of the hill. (I also remember reading that Uffington has changed over the years - or is that somewhere else?)

"I also remember reading that Uffington has changed over the years - or is that somewhere else?"

I don't know, but I'd previously wondered if there's a natural tendency for successive re-cuttings to cause the thing to morph thinner, as people fail to cut back the encroached edges as far as they should. It looks as if they could have kept true to the upper lines but allowed the grass to encroach on the lower ones.