Question

The long-established ceremony in Oxfordshire, England, of "scouring the Horse", described by academic and archivist Francis Wise in 1736, relates to what?

Answer 1

The Uffington White Horse
The late Bronze Age figure is deeply inscribed in the chalk of the Berkshire Downs, and is regularly cleared of growth. Periodic scouring continues, where volunteers with hammers, buckets of chalk, and kneepads kneel and "smash the chalk to a paste, whitening the paths cut in the grass inch by inch".