The first British Neolithic representational art? The chalk engravings at Cissbury flint mine - Anne M. Teather
During excavations at Cissbury Neolithic flint mine, Sussex, in the 1870s, abstract art scratched on the walls of the mines, and on blocks of chalk within the mines, was uncovered. Subsequent twentieth-century excavations in other British mines revealed further examples: the late Neolithic site of Grimes Graves and the early Neolithic mines of Harrow Hill and Church Hill.
Local archival research between 2003 and 2008 revealed few instances where inscribed chalk had been retained, and none from Cissbury. The subsequent availability of online museum catalogues, however, has been instrumental in locating a lost archive for Cissbury, at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. This article reports on five examples from an examination of 39 pieces during June 2015. A full analysis will be published in due course.
http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/teather347
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