> That would explain why he doesn’t appear in the abbey records or in Tudor surveys."
Perhaps this figure was simply considered too rude to write about.
Perhaps this figure was simply considered too rude to write about.
If it was too rude to write about, it was certainly too rude to maintain.
Personally, I think it's Hercules. The prediction in the 30s, "if it's Hercules he should be carrying a lion skin" followed by the discovery of the lion skin/cloak in the 70s, is pretty compelling.
Why someone carved Hercules into a field in England? Not a clue.
Or maybe the common illiterate people thought it was important for the fertility of their crops and flocks (and possibly their own).