One of the largest land art appendages—part of the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, UK—might have been covered up after a local resident complained about the enormous organ.
According to The Telegraph, in 1932 a government official wrote to the UK National Trust proposing ways to hide the Giant’s 35-foot penis after Walter Long, a Dorset resident, complained that the “obscenity” offended “Christian standards”.
Karen Heaney, a local historian, discovered that Cecil Yates, a Home Office official, proposed that trees be planted on the Giant’s groin in a bid to hide his impressive phallus. The request was dismissed though because it was deemed inappropriate to tamper with a “national monument”.
Thankfully the 180-foot-tall hillside fertility figure has survived fully intact, its manhood visible from miles around. The Giant was created by the Anglo-Saxons in the eighth century as a tribute to Helith, the god of health.
