Bone Horse

Black linocut
Hand printed on watercolour paper

30x23cm

A reworking of an edition I made last year entitled 'The Ochre Horse', this limited edition is an interpretation of the The Robin Hood Cave Horse; a fragment of rib engraved with a horse's head, discovered in 1876, in the Robin Hood Cave in Creswell Crags, Derbyshire.

Creswell Crags is an enclosed limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England. The cliffs in the ravine contain several caves that were occupied during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago. Its caves contain the northernmost cave art in Europe. The site is open to the public and has a visitor centre with a small museum of objects associated with the caves, including a stuffed cave hyena. In more recent times, hundreds of protective marks, also known as Witches Marks, have been discovered at Creswell Crags. This is believed to be the largest collection ever found in the UK.

As a result of its unique features, Creswell Crags has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). It has also been put forward as a potential World Heritage Site.