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… The hollow of Dragon Hill affords a stunning vista of the Manger and the Giant’s Stairs.
From this vantage the sheer scale of the site starts to impinge upon my consciousness.
I concur with Wen that the laity would have congregated in the bowl or chalice of the hill where we now stand, shaped as it is it forms a natural amphitheatre and the scoured grass beneath our feet which according to tradition is the spot where St. George ‘loosed the Dragon’s blood’ is clearly as anything a missing piece off the horse on the hill opposite.
I am minded of the myth of Isis and Osiris and the search of the Goddess for her brother’s dismembered body…
The other disconcerting thing, from our point of view, is that the figure is not wholly visible from this elevation.
One would need to be a lot higher up or…
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