Giant
Gill of Firle
He threw the hammer and walked off the map.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Hilltop with barrows; the hill figure is not visible to the eye
- Legend from
- Local legend
- Tone
- Light-hearted
Two chalk giants, five miles apart. One threw a hammer, and only one of them is still standing.
Firle Beacon is a high point on the South Downs a few miles west of the Long Man. On its north-east slope infrared photography shows a nearly lost hill figure, known as the Firle Corn, that looks like an ear of corn. Legend says a giant called Gill was cut on this hill and was the enemy of the Wilmington giant. One story says the Firle giant threw his hammer and killed the Long Man, and the lost figure marks the spot.