Reconstruction illustration depicting the method of transporting a sarsen stone from the Marlborough Downs to Stonehenge in the early Bronze Age, using a wooden sledge moving on shaped tree trunk rollers, pulled with ropes by a huge team of workers

Date:: 1979

Location:: Stonehenge, Amesbury, Stonehenge Down, Wiltshire

Reference:: IC095/015

Type:: Reconstruction Artwork

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A black and white version of this illustration was reproduced on the back cover of the 1980 publication 'What is Stonehenge?: A Guide for Young People', by the reknowned archaeologist Professor RJC Atkinson.

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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

Reconstruction illustration depicting the method of transporting a sarsen stone from the Marlborough Downs to Stonehenge in the early Bronze Age, using a wooden sledge moving on shaped tree trunk rollers, pulled with ropes by a huge team of workers

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