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Radio Solent,8 mins

Breakthrough on the origin of the Cerne Abbas Giant

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New research by Dr Tom Morcom and Dr Helen Gittos, from Oxford University, indicates that the chalk figure was originally carved as a muster station for West Saxon armies, who were battling against the Vikings in the ninth century. Our reporter Steve Humphrey has been finding out more, and Âé¶¹Éç Radio Solent's Steve Harris has been speaking to both academics.

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