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Viewing 21 Child Records for Volume: The Story of Silbury Hill

Reconstruction drawing showing four prehistoric children, with their faces and torsos painted with circular patterns

Date:
Nov 2009
Reference:
IC245/001
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Detail illustration of part of the branch of a Yew tree, illustrating an example of the types of plants known to have existed in the area of Silbury Hill through remains found in soil samples from the mound

Date:
2010
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/002
Type:
Artwork

Reconstruction illustration depicting a section of the vertical shaft excavated into Silbury Hill in 1776, under the supervision of Colonel Edward Drax

Date:
Feb 2010
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/003
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction illustration depicting a workman using a wheelbarrow to transport excavated material through the 1849 tunnel dug horizontally into Silbury Hill, under the supervision of Henry Blandford on behalf of the Royal Archaeological Institute

Date:
Feb 2010
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/004
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Detail illustration of part of the branch of a Blackthorn bush with sloes, illustrating an example of the types of plants known to have existed in the area of Silbury Hill through remains found in soil samples from the mound

Date:
2010
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/005
Type:
Artwork

Reconstruction illustration depicting an aerial view of a gathering of people at the future site of Silbury Hill, before the mound was constructed

Date:
Nov 2009
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/006
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction illustration depicting people carrying earth and rocks during the construction of the earliest gravel mound at Silbury Hill

Date:
Nov 2009
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/007
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction drawing showing three types of Neolithic snails found in soil samples RJC Atkinson took from a tunnel in Silbury Hill; Trichia Nispida (Hairy Garden Snail), Vitrina Pellucida (Glass Snail) and Cochlodina Lammata (Plaited Door Snail)

Date:
2010
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/008
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction sketch depicting Phase II of the early 'cylindrical' organic mound surrounded by wooden upright stakes, on the site that would later become Silbury Hill

Date:
2010
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/009
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction sketch depicting Phase II of the early 'cylindrical' organic mound surrounded by wooden upright stakes, on the site that would later become Silbury Hill

Date:
Nov 2009
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/010
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction drawing showing three types of beetles found in soil samples taken from the interior of Silbury Hill; Phyllopeptha Horticola (Garden Chafer), Cicindela Campest (Green Tiger Beetle) and Silpha Atrata, which feeds on snails

Date:
2010
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/011
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction illustration depicting the site that would later become Silbury Hill; there was an enclosure with a bank and ditch, and a larger mound made of organic material. The site is shown in the Neolithic period, whilst under construction.

Date:
Mar 2010
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/012
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction illustration depicting people working on the ditch at Silbury Hill during the Neolithic period. Workers are using deer antler picks to break the ground, while others carry earth and rocks using woven baskets.

Date:
2010
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/013
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction artwork showing ceremonial activity taking place at late-Neolithic Silbury Hill, in the centuries following the completion of the mound. The mound is aged and worn, and people are dragging stones to the summit along well-worn tracks.

Date:
Feb 2010
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/014
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction drawing depicting people gathered around a camp fire, above which a pig is being roasted, before Silbury Hill was constructed on the site in the Neolithic period

Date:
2009
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/015
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction illustration depicting an aerial view of Silbury Hill during the later years of the Roman occupation of Britain, with the Romano-British settlement shown to the south of the hill and Roman road

Date:
Jan 2010
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/016
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction drawing showing people transporting goods alongside a wooden palisade structure which is thought to have circled the summit of Silbury Hill in the tenth century

Date:
Mar 2010
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/017
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction illustration depicting a workman using a wheelbarrow to transport excavated material through the 1849 tunnel dug horizontally into Silbury Hill, under the supervision of Henry Blandford on behalf of the Royal Archaeological Institute

Date:
Feb 2010
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/018
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction drawing showing Colonel Edward Drax and his daughter descending a ladder in the vertical shaft cut into Silbury Hill in 1776. Colonel Drax oversaw the excavations into the mound at this date.

Date:
2010
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/019
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork

Reconstruction sketch depicting people standing beside the first organic mound (Phase II) at the site that would later become Silbury Hill. The mound is shown surrounded by timber stakes, as it is thought to have appeared in the Neolithic period.

Date:
2009
Location:
Silbury Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire
Reference:
IC245/020
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork