<div dir="ltr">found this in my morning surf, but perhaps this is old news to y&#39;all ;)<div><br><div><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/3000-year-old-uffington-horse-looms-over-english-countryside-180963968/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/3000-year-old-uffington-horse-looms-over-english-countryside-180963968/</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/what-a-prehistoric-monument-reveals-about-the-value-of-maintenance-4d1b89343984">https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/what-a-prehistoric-monument-reveals-about-the-value-of-maintenance-4d1b89343984</a></div><div><br></div><div><p id="gmail-b36a" class="gmail-mo gmail-mp gmail-dz gmail-ap gmail-mq gmail-b gmail-mr gmail-ms gmail-mt gmail-mu gmail-mv gmail-mw gmail-mx gmail-my gmail-mz gmail-na gmail-nb" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);line-height:1.58;letter-spacing:-0.004em;font-family:medium-content-serif-font,Georgia,Cambria,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif;font-size:21px">“>From the start the horse would have required regular upkeep to stay visible,” Emily Cleaver <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/3000-year-old-uffington-horse-looms-over-english-countryside-180963968/" class="gmail-cx gmail-bt gmail-mk gmail-ml gmail-mm gmail-mn" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;background-repeat:repeat-x;background-size:1px 1px">writes in <em class="gmail-nm" style="box-sizing:inherit">The Smithsonian</em></a>. “It might seem strange that the horse’s creators chose such an unstable form for their monument, but archaeologists believe this could have been intentional. A chalk hill figure requires a social group to maintain it, and it could be that today’s cleaning is an echo of an early ritual gathering that was part of the horse’s original function.”</p><blockquote class="gmail-ol" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding-left:30px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:medium-content-sans-serif-font,-apple-system,system-ui,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,&quot;Open Sans&quot;,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div id="gmail-0a9c" class="gmail-om gmail-on gmail-oo gmail-ap gmail-jx gmail-b gmail-ko gmail-op gmail-oq gmail-or gmail-os gmail-ot gmail-nb" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:medium-content-title-font,Georgia,Cambria,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif;font-size:24px;line-height:1.48;letter-spacing:-0.014em;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.76);margin-top:2.75em"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b><font size="1"><a href="https://calendly.com/greg-bloom/" target="_blank">Book a time</a> to chat!</font></b></div><div><font size="1"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1">site: <a href="http://gregbloom.org" target="_blank">gregbloom.org</a><br>tweets: <a href="http://twitter.com/greggish" target="_blank">@greggish</a></font></div><div><font size="1">fb: <a href="http://facebook.com/gregory.bloom" target="_blank">/gregory.bloom</a></font></div><div><font size="1">linked: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregbloom/" target="_blank">/gregbloom</a></font></div><div><font size="1">phone: <span title="Call with Google Voice">305.962.2859</span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>