Monkton-Up-Wimborne Neoloithic Woman (Jane Brayne)

Reconstruction portrait of Cranborne Woman. She has dark hair, medium-dark skin, a broad long nose, high eyebrows, wide lips, and wears a simple brown fabric or skin sheath.

Reconstruction portrait of Cranborne Woman by Jane Brayn, by her permission. She also shared this: “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.”

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