Sorrell Collection

Reconstruction of Mesolithic site of Star Carr, Yorkshire
Yorkshiremen of ten thousand years ago: a reconstruction of life on the middle Stone Age lakeside site of Star Carr, near Scarborough, showing typical artefacts and activities

Ceremony in a Megalithic burial mound
A reconstruction drawing by Alan Sorrell designed to give an impression of the ceremonies associated with the holiest part of a Megalithic burial mound - the right-hand recess of the cruciform

How the Vikings lived in the Shetlands in William the Conquerors time. A vivid reconstruction by Alan Sorrell of everyday life and activities in the Jarlshof Settlement near Sumburgh Head

Regina Rifle Regiment Memorial, Courseulles, Normandy
This plaque, which is on a small pillar at the entrance to Juno Beach at Courseulles, carries the Regimental badge with battle honours of WW1 - e.g. Passchendaele, Mount Sorrell, Cambrai and Vimy

Leicesters Roman forum reconstructed
Reconstruction drawing by Alan Sorrell of the city of Leicesters Roman forum in Roman times. The Roman remains excavated by Kathleen Kenyon in 1936, beside the Roman-era Jewry Wall in Leicester

Leicesters Roman remains excavated, 1936
Drawing by Alan Sorrell of excavations in progress in the city of Leicester in 1936 led by Kathleen Kenyon. The excavated Roman remains were initially thought by Kenyon to be a Roman forum

Warwick Deeping - 2
GEORGE WARWICK DEEPING British novelist, author of Sorrell and son among many others. Date: 1877 - 1950

Alan Sorrell
Alan Ernest Sorrell (11 February 1904 21 December 1974), English artist and writer best remembered for his archaeological illustrations, particularly his detailed reconstructions of Roman Britain

Broch tower of Clickimin
An illustration of how the Broch at Clickimin Loch, in Shetland, Scotland, may have looked at the end of the First Century A.D

Megalithic burial mound at Knowth
Artists impression of the Megalithic burial mound at Knowth in Ireland near Newgrange beside the River Boyne, excavated by Dr George Eogan in July 1967

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