This set of six drawings relates to excavation sites made by the Victorian archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827-1900). His ‘Wessex Collection’ which includes artefacts and excavation models is housed in The Salisbury Museum, Wiltshire. The sites themselves, found on his estate on the chalk downland of Cranborne Chase date from the Bronze Age (South Lodge Camp) to the Anglo-Roman (Woodcutts Common) eras.

Each drawing relates to a specific site and references the original archaeological mapping drafted by Pitt Rivers and carried out before and after each excavation.