Stuart Mason: The Long Man of Wilmington Decode

Summary

Researcher and sacred-site guide Stuart Mason argues that the Long Man of Wilmington, a giant chalk figure in Sussex, England, is far older than its official Tudor-era dating and functions as a Neolithic solar calendar. He describes repeatable shadow effects on the solstices and equinoxes, including a diagonal shadow that splits the figure in half on the equinox, which he compares to the serpent shadow at Chichen Itza. The conversation also covers sacred geometry, ley lines, dowsing, crop circles, and a terraformed landscape that Mason calls a giant clock, while host Cliff opens with theories about Maya trans-oceanic migration and possible Maya telescopes.

Key takeaways

• 1The Long Man of Wilmington is claimed to be the largest human geoglyph in Europe and the second largest in the world, behind the Atacama Giant in Chile.
• 2Mason's new book is 'The Long Man of Wilmington Decoded: Britain's Stonehenge of the East.'
• 3A long barrow above the figure is aligned to about 51 degrees azimuth, the summer solstice sunrise; another long barrow near Alfriston is said to point to the lunar standstills (an 18.6-year cycle).
• 4On the equinox, a shadow from a ridge Mason claims is terraformed, called the Giant's Causeway, diagonally bisects the figure around 4:44pm, with a mirror effect just after 9am.
• 5Applying John Michell-style metrology, the 235-foot staff becomes 23.5, said to encode Earth's axial tilt.
• 6Mason links the two-staff motif to Viracocha at Tiwanaku's Gateway of the Sun and to Richard Cassaro's research on the 'Staff God' figure.
• 7An Alfred Watkins ley line is said to run through the Long Man, the barrow, the church and the priory. During WWII the figure was painted green to hide it from Luftwaffe navigators.
• 8Researcher John North linked the figure to Orion rising behind 'Windover Hill' around 3480 BCE.
• 9Host Cliff claims the Maya migrated from South America by sea rather than via the Bering Strait, and speculates that El Caracol at Chichen Itza held telescopes based on Venus data in the Dresden Codex.

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Transcript excerpt

Oh my God, did I get a good one today. I should say the last 10 days. There you go. And this is the revolution of artificial intelligence. And I'll tell you what I'm talking about. So I have a chapter on agriculture in this new book, The Maya Controversy. And whenever you're talking about food, grain foods, fruit, vegetables, or whatever, you got to talk about where they came from. And Years ago, seven years ago, we had the engineer Jim O'Connor on the program. If you go through the archives of Earth HHS, you can see he's written a number of books. One of his most famous, which is used by colleges and universities, Mayanist, is Ancient Maya Technology. And then he wrote another book on cotton, chocolate, and Maya Cultivation, that's not the title. I'll give it to you some other time. But what he discovered is they were horticulturists. They grew and developed vegetables and fruits. And, you know, my whole thing is that I don't believe they necessarily came from the Bering Strait, which is Asia. And in my research, and this is what's so amazing about AI, I said, I wrote a prompt, I said, trace the earliest development of fruits and vegetables in the Mayan community and locate archaeological records and research that ties this into the Mayan people. Well, what comes back is a number of very, very detailed research papers by Mayan archaeologists, and some of these are the 1950s, 1960s, before I was born. And what they traced is migratory foods from South America. They were coming through with very special types of maize, which is corn, and squash, and certain types of small apples and other vegetables. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Sep 5, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.