Reconstruction illustration giving a bird's eye view of the sarsen and bluestone monument at Stonehenge, as seen from the east and as it may have appeared in its completed final phase between 2400BC to 1600BC

Date:
circa 1990
Location:
Stonehenge, Amesbury, Stonehenge Down, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC095/004
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

The illustration shows how the sarsen circle may have appeared enclosing both the horseshoe of sarsen trilithons and the circle and horseshoe arrangement of bluestones. The double rings of small shallow holes that encircle the stone monument are known as the 'X and Y holes'. These holes appear to have been cut but never used.

It is possible that this illustration was reproduced on a large scale as part of a suite of interpretation at the site. This has been theorised due to the large scale of the original artwork and the level of detail in the depiction; this implies that the illustration was intended to be reproduced 'scaled up', rather than reduced.

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

Early Bronze Age Stone Circle, Late Neolithic Henge, Late Neolithic Stone Circle