Reconstruction illustration giving an impression of how the landscape immediately surrounding Stonehenge may have appeared in about 2500BC. A shepherd sits with his flock near a round barrow, with the henge and bluestones in the distance.

Date:
circa 1990
Location:
Stonehenge, Amesbury, Stonehenge Down, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC095/002
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

At this stage in the life of the Stonehenge landscape, the land has been largely cleared of trees. Burial mounds of local chieftains, constructed of heaped chalk and earth, can be seen on the skyline and in the foreground-right. This illustration was created by artist Ivan Lapper. A note on the mount attached to the painting states that it was commissioned for reproduction on information panel number 2 at the site. It was also reproduced on pages 24-25 of the 1991 and 2002 English Heritage guidebooks for Stonehenge and its neighbouring monuments (and also in subsequent reprints of these editions).

Content

This is part of the Volume: IC095 Stonehenge World Heritage Site, Wiltshire; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction and Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Lapper, Ivan

Keywords

Late Neolithic Henge, Late Neolithic Stone Circle