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So much for just concentrating on art. I just felt like making a quick sketch of a sculpture of Vercingetorix. Sent from my iPad Continue reading →

Having spent much of last week engrossed in historical matters I intend to spend the next few days just kicking back and making art works for myself. This period of relaxation/change was kicked off by this little sketch of the one time political j… Continue reading →

Well for the past 5 days I have been wading through a 70 year old publication about salt ways in the southern midlands. It has been fascinating and I have learnt an awful but now I just sitting here looking at the screen wondering where those 5 da… Continue reading →

Having thought a little about the people of the Iron Age it is now the turn of there beasts of burden – in this case the pony. It is doubtful that the great unwashed of Iron Age society had access to what we would describe as a horse. This was the… Continue reading →

One of the problems with a lot of Iron Age illustration I have looked at over the last few days is that, well, they are not that realistic. Now I have to be very careful here because, in truth, we don’t really know what Iron Age people actually lo… Continue reading →

Over the past two or three weeks have been slowly building a new map as part of my historical research project looking at Salt Ways/Roads. This is a long winded and at times mind numbing but it involved finding data about an area entering it into … Continue reading →

What is in a name? Well for me it starts to give something substance, in this case an Iron Age man. Cartivelios is the name of what is described as a sub King, a local big wig of the Corietltauvi polity in the late Iron Age period. His name appear… Continue reading →

So a few facts, such as they are. Iron Age man was lucky to reach 40 – let alone 50. Women fared even worse – due to child brith – most wouldn’t see beyond 30, however by that time they may well have produced 5 or 6 children. Nowadays we don’t thi… Continue reading →

So you have this bright idea – how on earth do you progress it? Well that is the first question that needs to be addressed when starting to think about the Prehistoric project. Fortunately I know something about Iron Age Britain so this might help… Continue reading →

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