The Ancestor

2. Contact Details The Forge Gallery www.theforgegallery.co.uk 07909332680 A&R Metalcraft www.armetalcraft.co.uk 07921996763 Billy Morrison www.glass@billymorrison.co.uk 01672 811499 Catherine Bonham www.catherinebonhamjewellery.webs.com 07970147444 Angela Cox www.angelacoxfineart.co.uk 07899877112 Amy Lancaster www.metalmenagerie.co.uk 07747630626 David Dawson Wiltshire Heritage Museum www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk 01380 727369 (mobile 07931 583354) English Heritage Press Office 0207 9733250 Wiltshire Council 01225 713000 Amesbury Heritage Trust/ Amesbury 2012 Cllr Andy Rhind-Tutt 01980 622999 Holiday Inn Vivienne Westwood 08452413535 32nd Regiment Richard Bawden, Bawdens Managed Landscapes 01980 622185 Larry Lamb Lamb Engineering 01722 742532 SGS Heating and Electrical Ltd 01722 331066 Bennett and Dean 01722 413303 Jim at Wessex Profiles 01722 713000 Noons Scrap Metal Merchants 01264 781329 Sue Simpson Photographer Susan Simpson23@hotmail.com

3. Timescales and The Ancestors Tour 1st � 31st May Crown construction/2012 workshops 2nd June Crown in Amesbury Carnival procession 3rd June Crown Installation Holiday Inn Jubilee Lunch 19th June Stonehenge Installation 21st June Removal from Stonehenge 21st June to 8th July Ancestor Clean Up /Beacon construction 9th July Hudsons Field Installation 11th July Hudsons Field Event 12th July Removal from Hudsons Field.

4. 2012 Workshop Applicants for the Amesbury 2012 Metalcraft workshop will be using traditional sheetmetal work techniques to create a modern interpretation of the lozenge to form the side panels of the crown. Participants will be able to make one for the crown and one to keep. A Forge Gallery initiative working with the community showcasing The Ancestor as a public interactive artwork. The Ancestors Jubilee Beacon A&R Metalcraft will be creating a flaming torch Sculpture for The Ancestor to hold. Inspired by our interpretation of the very earliest beacons of flaming brushwood. The Ancestors Torch replicates brushwood, heavily forged twigs and leaves. The Ancestors Flame will be created using textured copper flames set as a wind sculpture. The Crown and the Torch will remain on The Ancestor for the duration of the Olympic Games.

5. Jubilee Crown Inspiration for the crown has been drawn from the Bush Barrow Lozenge, a replica of which will be created by A&R Metalcraft, and will form the centre piece for the crown. The Lozenge will be surrounded by the beautiful comtemporary glass of Billy Morrison in a fiery frame of glass. Wirework artist Catherine Bonham will create traditional copper wire patterns to tie the design together. The side panels of the crown will consist of diamond �lozenges� created by the Amesbury 2012 workshop participants using traditional sheet metalwork techniques. Artist Angela Cox will create an artsists impression of the crown. The crown will take part in the Amesbury Carnival Procession and for viewing at the carnival. The crown is to be installed at The Holiday Inn to co-incide with their Jubilee Lunch on Sunday June 3rd 2012. The crown will be constructed, where possible, at The Forge Gallery and be displayed in the window for the month of May. If possible work will take place in the gallery to enable interaction with the public. Follow the build on facebook or the gallery website.

6. The Bush Barrow Lozenge Bush Barrow lies less than half a mile south of Stonehenge, close to the line of the Solstice. It is Britain�s richest Bronze Age burial. Buried in the barrow was the grave of a warrior or chief. He died in about 1900BC. His body was accompanied by:- Gold lozenge ((pictured). This is made of thin sheet gold, fastened over a wooden backing. It was found on his chest, and was probably used to fasten his cloak. The design of the impressed lines on the lozenge show that Bronze Age people understood basic geometry. Gold belt hook. Made of sheet gold, and also decorated with impressed concave and convex curved lines Mace head. The mace is made of a ground and polished fossil sponge, of a type found in Devon. It was mounted on a handle decorated with a second small gold lozenge and polished bone mounts 3 bronze daggers. The hilt of one of the daggers was decorated with tiny gold studs, arranged in a zig-zag or herringbone pattern. The studs are thinner than a human hair and about 1 mm long. There were an estimated 140,000 studs inlaid into the handle, and the dagger was made millennia before magnifying lenses had been invented. The dagger may have been made in Brittany. Bronze axe A number of rivets and fragments of bronze found near the skeleton have recently been identified by experts as being from a knife-dagger dating to some 200 years earlier than the rest of the objects found in the grave. This dagger may have belonged to an ancestor who may have lived at the time of the construction of the enormous sarsen stone circle and horseshoe of trilithons at Stonehenge. The barrow is one of 50 barrows in the Normanton Down barrow cemetery. Two adjacent barrows in the group also included prestigious objects and may have been the graves of members of the same family. The finds are displayed at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes (www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk).

7. The AncestorDiamond JubileeCrown A collaberation of ancient metalcraft, contemporary glass and traditional wirework.