This is the information page on the Long Man of Wilmington on the Sussex Archaeological Society website.
Cursuswalker
This is an 1878 map of the Long Man of Wilmington, and the surrounding area, from a website that is fascinating from an MA point of view.
They allow re-use of images under the conditions laid down here: old-maps.co.uk/terms.htm
A page from CastleUK.net, giving information on the site, though a visit is all one should need to doubt that anyone would bother building any sort of castle that could fit on the top of the site!
Page from the Countryside Alliance’s own website, bragging about the vandalism, including a picture of it taking place.
17/8/05 UPDATE: They seem to have removed the picture. What a shame...
2/8/06 UPDATE: It’s back again. Maybe they think the heat is off now...
5/7/07 UPDATE: And it’s gone again
This one shows the whole enclosure, which the plug-in doesn’t quite.
Check out those plough marks in the surropunding fields...
Looks worth a visit...
A good aerial view of the site.
A good aerial view of the Devil’s Dyke dry valley and the Hillfort on the spur to its north west.
A reasonable aerial view of the enclosure, and better than anything you are likely to get on the ground frankly.
A very good aerial photo of the site from Multimap, in case you don’t believe me once you’ve been there yourself :-)
A lot of good info on the site, including Curwen’s 1929 map.
Information on Barkhale from the Internet Archaeology Journal
This page from a travel site is of interest because it shows a picture of the cairn on top of Maeve’s Tomb in 1999 (About 2/3 of the way down the page) as well as an account of a visit to Carrowmore Cemetary.
Compare the cairn in 1999 with the 2003 picture:
themodernantiquarian.com/post/20158
I am adding some sites on Windover Hill, the site of the Long Man of Wilmington. These photographs were taken nearly 4 years ago and I have only just dug them up!
The landscape above the Long Man is well worth a visit for those who don’t mind shapes in the grass with no interesting rocks cluttering up the place. We don’t really do rocks in this neck of the woods.
(See the Goldstone, in Brighton, for a notable exception. The only megalith to have had a football ground named after it!)
The fact that a large Neolithic Long Barrow and a large Bronze Age Round Barrow seem to be aligned with the space on which the Long Man now stands is something that I find intriguing. While the Naturalistic figure of the Long Man could only be Roman at the very oldest, I believe there to have been something on this site for a very long time. If only we could see what were the original designs on this hill.
The photograph on this page shows the inscription clearly.