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ChickenGeorge, if you mean the Cerne Abbas figure, blaming it on the Romans is a theory new to me.

King George III used to take his seaside hols at Weymouth (which in those 18th century days, long before railways, was the back of beyond, miles from anywhere). Townsfolk, thinking to honour him and advertise their royal connection, cut a geoglyph on the chalk downs overlooking the town of him riding his horse. It is a side-on view of his right side, i.e. he is riding from left to right, west to east which is the direction he'd go back towards London. The story I've heard is that he took umbrage at this (thinking it to be a hint they'd be glad to see him leave) and never went there again.