The so-called White Horse of Uffington - an ancient hill-figure carved into the Oxfordshire land - may not be a horse at all!
The story on the Guardian website today |
A GREYHOUND!!
Retired vet Olaf Swarbrick made the suggestion in a letter to Veterinary Record.
There's a bit of hoo-ha going on as to whether it's a wolfhound, a greyhound, or a horse (like everyone said in the first place) but I'm going with greyhound.....Maybe we all had squarer faces when it was created some 3,000 years ago.
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