[< Gallery Home | Latest Images | Top 100 | Submit Picture >]
259587 Pictures
|
<< Previous Picture | Next Picture >>
Monkton-up-Wimborne Late Neolithic pit circle/shaft complex
[396 x 700 jpeg]
| Submitted by | dodomad |
| Added | Jun 29 2020 |
| Hits | 214 |
| Votes | 0 |
Description
Reconstruction portrait of Cranborne Woman by Jane Brayn,.
Jane said "Martin Green’s find was perhaps the most affecting I’ve ever worked on. I had the woman’s skull in my studio for a couple of days before it went for digital reconstruction and remember being very touched by its beauty – she had amazing teeth! I live on the edge of the Mendip hills where she probably originated. The B3081 leads through my village in Somerset directly to Martin’s farm and I often think of her as I’m driving that way, trudging over the hills with the three children."
Jane said "Martin Green’s find was perhaps the most affecting I’ve ever worked on. I had the woman’s skull in my studio for a couple of days before it went for digital reconstruction and remember being very touched by its beauty – she had amazing teeth! I live on the edge of the Mendip hills where she probably originated. The B3081 leads through my village in Somerset directly to Martin’s farm and I often think of her as I’m driving that way, trudging over the hills with the three children."
Posted Comments:
Andy B (2020-06-29)
Source: The Woman in the Chalk - Cranborne Woman
What's Her Name Podcast
http://www.whatshernamepodcast.com/cranborne-woman/
What's Her Name Podcast
http://www.whatshernamepodcast.com/cranborne-woman/
Andy B (2020-06-30)
When newly created the shaft would have been a very impressive sight with its vertical sides and smooth even floor, and perhaps even surrounded by a low bank created from its excavated spoil. Shortly afterwards it seems to have been sanctified by a remarkable, perhaps sacrificial, multiple burial inserted into its Northern edge. Thanks to specialist work sponsored by the BBC during the making of a Meet the Ancestors programme about the site (Richards 1999), we know a great deal about the buried individuals including an impression of the facial features of the adult (see above image).
Source: http://www.digitaldigging.net/neolithic-complex-monkton-wimborne/
Source: http://www.digitaldigging.net/neolithic-complex-monkton-wimborne/
To post comments first you must Register!