Royal Mail

I was honoured to be asked to illustrate the first Royal Mail stamps released in 2017, on the theme of Ancient Britain.

The eight stamp set depicts intriguing sites and artefacts from British prehistory, and provide a timeline across thousands of years – from a glimpse of a mesolithic ritual of 11,000 years ago, to exquisite metalworking of the Iron Age from 300 BC.

Featured on the stamps are: The Battersea Shield, The Star Carr Headdress, Skara Brae Village (Orkney Islands), Grime’s Graves Flint Mines, Avebury Stone Circles, The Mold Cape (Wales), The Drumbest Horns (Northern Ireland) and Maiden Castle Hill Fort.

All Work

© Senior Designer, Sarah Dutton at True North, Manchester; Battersea shield, Star Carr headdress and Mold cape photos © The Trustees of the British Museum; Skara Brae village photo by Rolph Gobits © Royal Mail Group Ltd 2017, taken with the kind permission of Historic Environment Scotland/Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil Alba; Maiden Castle hill fort photo © Skyscan Photolibrary/Alamy Stock Photo; Avebury stone circles photo by Rolph Gobits © Royal Mail Group Ltd 2017, taken with the kind permission of the National Trust; Drumbest horns photo by Jonathan West © Royal Mail Group Ltd 2017, taken with the kind permission of Ulster Museum, Belfast; Grime’s Graves flint mines photo by Rolph Gobits © Royal Mail Group Ltd 2017, taken with the kind permission of English Heritage.