A new exhibition coming to Salisbury Museum gives a snapshot of Britain’s prehistoric monuments from the air. 

Somerset-based photographer and writer David R Abram has spent the past five years capturing photos of the UK’s ancient wonders from above.

Using drones and telescopic poles, he has captured scenes that range from Neolithic monuments on the Wessex chalk lands to Iron Age crannogs in Hebridean lochs.

The stunning photos of Silbury Hill and Stonehenge featured in this article are just two of 22 pieces to be displayed at the Salisbury Museum later this month, most of which are of prehistoric monuments in Salisbury. 

They have been selected from Abram's his upcoming book, The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Britain.

Abram said that it took him ‘a lot of experimentation’ to get good pictures when he first started using a drone for photography in 2014, but it was worth it.

“The forms revealed by the aerial perspective were astounding - particularly, I discovered, those captured by looking straight down on the earth," he said.

On the response to his work, Abram said: “It became clear that my work struck a chord with many people. 

“At one level, discovering that these extraordinary sites exist in the landscape around us, or seeing them from a fresh perspective, answers to a yearning we all feel for a sense of place and belonging. 

“But these ancient creations also connect at a deeper and more mysterious level, I think. 

“The sites were, after all, inspired by powerful emotions we can all relate to: grief; wonder; fear; pride; and the need to celebrate rites of passage at auspicious places. 

“These emotions may be fleeting, but they’re definitely implicit in the photos.”

David’s signature pieces are large format composites, made up of hundreds of smaller photographs stitched together. 

The exhibition will start on January 29 and finish on May 15 this year and pre-booking is not required.

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