<Tr> <Th> OS grid </Th> <Td> SU301866 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Topo map </Th> <Td> OS Landranger 174 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Uffington White Horse is a highly stylised prehistoric hill figure, 110 m (360 ft) long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk . The figure is situated on the upper slopes of White Horse Hill in the English civil parish of Uffington (in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire and historic county of Berkshire), some 8 km (5 mi) south of the town of Faringdon and a similar distance west of the town of Wantage; or 2.5 km (1.6 mi) south of Uffington . The hill forms a part of the scarp of the Berkshire Downs and overlooks the Vale of White Horse to the north . The best views of the figure are obtained from the air, or from directly across the Vale, particularly around the villages of Great Coxwell, Longcot and Fernham . The site is owned and managed by the National Trust and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument . The Guardian stated in 2003 that "for more than 3,000 years, the Uffington White Horse has been jealously guarded as a masterpiece of minimalist art ." It has also inspired the creation of other white horse hill figures . </P> <P> The figure presumably dates to "the later prehistory", i.e. the Iron Age (800 BC--AD 100) or the late Bronze Age (1000--700 BC). This view was generally held by scholars even before the 1990s, based on the similarity of the horse's design to comparable figures in Celtic art . This theory was confirmed following a 1990 excavation led by Simon Palmer and David Miles of the Oxford Archaeological Unit: deposits of fine silt removed from the horse's' beak' were scientifically dated to the late Bronze Age, sometime between 1380 and 550 BC . They also discovered the figure was cut into the hill up to a metre (3 ft) deep, not simply scratched into the chalk surface . </P>

Where in england is the white chalk horse