Britain's largest and most controversial antiquity is literally as old as the hills that form its figures and the streams that help define them.
Though basically natural, it was completed with tracks, canals and earthworks by early Man.
A vast circle 10 miles across, this Star-Temple has a guard dog, his underside outlined by the river Parrett, 5 miles long.
Too big to be seen! Too good to be true? Yet the map shows its effigies clearly, while 100 significant place names and many local legends attest them, like Wagg on the Dog's tail.
The Zodiac stars also fit their effigies when the planetsphere is scaled to the map.
Here, said Katherine Maltwood, who found this earth Zodiac in 1925, is the first Round Table in Avalon; Arthur, his chief knights, and Guinevere still seated about it as the signs of the Zodiac.
An early grail legend confirms that Merlin made the Round Table to signify "the round world, the round canopy of the planets and stars."
Condensed into 50 minutes, this film explores the Ancient Mystery from the air and on the ground, and finds a message of great import for the new age embedded in its figures.
Script by Mary Caine whose books "The Glastonbury Zodiac" and "The Glastonbury Giants" helped renew interest in Maltwood's discovery. Commentary by Osmond Caine. Music by Vaughan Williams and Jose Gross. Production and photography by Jonathan Barnett.
Copyright: Mary Caine 1990