Cut into a hillside close to the Dorset village of Cerne Abbas, the 55-meter chalk figure depicts a club-wielding, nude man whose silhouette has become one of the most instantly identifiable historical icons in the United Kingdom.
However, the site’s owner and manager, the National Trust, claims that it is becoming more difficult to maintain the Giant’s prominence on the hillside due to shifting weather patterns.
This week, volunteers and employees of the National Trust will apply tons of fresh chalk to the statue in order to restore his outline’s sharp whiteness. Luke Dawson, a National Trust ranger who assists with site maintenance, claims that while mild, moist weather allow algae to grow more readily, heavy winter rains are washing chalk from the slope more quickly.
According to him, the Giant’s outline has been undergoing “a dulling effect” due to the wetter weather, making it less prominent and greener in between maintenance tasks. When it comes to directly linking the changes to climate change at a particular location, the Trust is hesitant.”It’s one of these things we cannot really prove,” Dawson says. “It is more just observation of what we are seeing up there.
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