An outline of a horse, human, or other design cut into the turf of a hill, especially in the chalk downs of southern England. The oldest of these (the White Horse at Uffington, Oxfordshire) is prehistoric.
The White Horse, which is the oldest and most famous hill figure at between 2,000 and 3,000 years old, supposedly represents the dragon.
The two British Archaeology articles imply that if one hill figure is Early Modern, the other should be too.
Discover and explore the mystical stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury plus the gigantic White Horse hill figures sculpted into Wiltshire's rolling hills.
The transformation of the Fovant hillside since 1918, as we shall see, warns not to assume that we know even the majority of older hill figures.