Tag: hill figures

• Giants in the landscape: did people explain big things with big people?

  

  I gathered 331 giant places in Britain and Ireland, from Giant’s Graves to Gog Magog. Giants own graves, not mountains, and Ireland’s 212 Giant’s Graves are no bigger or more prominent than the tombs around them.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  data visualisation, folklore, giants, hill figures, Ireland, maps, megalithic tombs, place names