Photomechanical copy of an original 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 1957 - circa 1970
Location:
Stonehenge, Amesbury, Stonehenge Down, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC095/014
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Description

See illustration IC095/008 for the original illustration. 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.

The original reconstruction was reproduced on pages 8-9 of the 1959 Department of the Environment guidebook for Stonehenge and Avebury, then on pages 8-9 of the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works' 1962 publication 'What is Stonehenge?: A Guide for Young People.'

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

© Crown Copyright. Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Sorrell, Alan Ernest

Keywords

Late Neolithic Henge, Early Bronze Age Stone Circle