Cat's Eye Carving

Deal Chalk man

I have been commissioned by Dover Museum to carve a replica of a small Iron age sculpture, he was found during an Archaeological dig in Deal, Kent, during the 1980’s.

Catherine, the Deal man’s keeper at Dover Museum.

I have some chalk that needs cutting to size, and once I have made to template, I can get to work.

I visited Dover Museum on Tuesday 5th May and made some templates to compliment the measurements that I have already taken.

I used a plastic square up against the outer points of the Deal man, this means that the template that I have will give me the overall shape at the extremities of the carving and I will finish off this carving with the original in order to get the finer details correct.

Interesting markings on the surface, I will work to get as close a match as possible, using tools that I think that they would have used.