[Themaintainers] maintaining the Uffington Horse

[Greg Bloom]

found this in my morning surf, but perhaps this is old news to y'all ;)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/3000-year-old-uffington-horse-looms-over-english-countryside-180963968/

https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/what-a-prehistoric-monument-reveals-about-the-value-of-maintenance-4d1b89343984

“From the start the horse would have required regular upkeep to stay
visible,” Emily Cleaver writes in *The Smithsonian*
<https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/3000-year-old-uffington-horse-looms-over-english-countryside-180963968/>.
“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.”



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