The Cerne Abbas Giant, a 180-foot-tall geoglyph in southern England, is getting a new layer of chalk The Cerne Abbas Giant lies on a hillside. © National Trust / James Beck England’s iconic Cerne Abbas Giant —an enormous naked warrior carved into a hillside in Dorset—just got a facelift. Every decade or so, workers from the National Trust , a British conservation charity, replace the calcium carbonate that fills the medieval monument’s trenches. They make it so the “Rude Man” glows white against the surrounding green grass. “Re‑chalking the Giant relies on techniques that haven’t changed for generations—carefully digging out older material and packing in fresh chalk by hand on a very steep slope,” says Luke Dawson, a lead ranger at the National Trust, in a statement . “It’s how we’ve kept him visible for centuries.” The giant was last refurbished in early fall 2019, but only a few days after, autumn rainfall swept away much of the fresh chalk.…