Cerne Abbas
In today’s TIMES newspaper (17 Nov 09) there is an article about the Cerne Abbas chalk giant (liberally featured in the ‘Cern Zoo’ book) and its oft mis-orthographised ‘hadron’. ‘Hadron’ is Greek for ‘stout or thick’.
The article debates the identity of the original creator of the giant and Lord Holles is proposed: “One resident who may have been responsible ... Denzil Holles, a characterful MP who fought for the Parliamentarians but was a Royalist at heart and who occupied the house from 1642-66.”
The ‘house’ in question is the Abbey of Cernes “transformed into a country mansion in the mid-16th century after the Dissolution of the Monasteries”.
That Dissolution was possibly history’s first Collider...
A fanblade ferris-wheel laying waste across the land.
Holles held Cromwell in contempt. A joke’s butt of the giant?
The giant was covered up during the war for fear of the Luftwaffe navigating by his bright outline.
The question is how many Holles makes a single Black Holle?
The whole plot of Dr Who 'The Waters of Mars' seemed to fit in with FlashForward, Hadron Collider sabotaging itself from the future ..... Enjoyed it.
The Cerne in Cerne Abbas derives from the Celtic god Cernunnos.
