I saw the Cerne Abbas giant in the mid-eighties, and found it a memorable part of my journey through that part of England! Just recently I read a really fantastic poem by Dylan Thomas called "In the White Giant's Thigh," and have assumed it's in reference to the Cerne Abbas giant; there's no other chalk giant, is there? In it he refers to the practice of barren women seeking to gain fertility via the giant (see Philippa's post above). It's an unbelievably rich poem, go to the library and find it! Margaret