Gallery: Ice Age

This page contains sketches of finds and inhabitants of Ice Age Britain. They are mostly ‘working’ pencil sketches produced alongside background research for the Lost Landscapes of Worcestershire project. You are welcome to use or adapt them.

Aurochs (Bos primigenius)

Steppe bison (Bison priscus)

Bull moose (Alces alces)

Sketch for a Late Pleistocene ‘mammoth steppe’ landscape in the Severn Valley. Brackish autumn pools in the grasslands of the flood plain during the Upton Warren interstadial (a warm period c.42,000 years ago), looking west to the Malvern Hills. Inspiration from images of the Ubsunur Hollow, Central Asia/

Musk ox (Ovibus moschatus)

13,500-year-old bone points found within the remains of a moose discovered near Blackpool, Lancashire

Lesions, probably caused by a flint axe, on the left forelimb of a 13,500-year-old moose discovered near Blackpool, Lancashire

Willow ptarmigan (lagopus lagopus)

Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)

Grey wolf (Canis lupus)

Willow ptarmigan (lagopus lagopus)

Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibus)

Przewalski’s horse (Equus ferus przewalski)

Arctic Lemming (Dicrostonyx torquatus)

Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)

Arctic Fox: widespread throughout Britain in the last Ice Age. A superbly adapted creature; hunter of lemming, scavenger of carrion, and a familiar sight to Ice Age humans.