Jigsaw Puzzle of Sea Henge

This is a little different! I found in my local craft store a ready made small jigsaw puzzle, blank ready for an image of your choice. It came as a pack of two. I assume is designed for children. There are just a few, large pieces and the material is card, not the best for painting as it is thin, shiny and not sealed, but still worthy of an experiment or two!

Choosing another 'Heritage' theme, I painted an image of the pre-historic timber circle; "Sea Henge", taken from a book. Using acrylics, I had to separate the pieces before the paint dried and glued it all together!

You can see, I used the border-frame also. This was possibly a mistake as the image on the jigsaw pieces is tightly framed with the edge removed, but the composition still works and the image still fits.

The pieces can be separated. Like any jigsaw, the image is no longer recognisable from the pieces but I am surprised, however, just how indiscernible the image is, even when the pieces are placed next to each other, in the correct order and orientation...

"Sea Henge"is, correctly, a 'timber circle'. It was discovered near Holme-next-the-Sea, on the north-west coast of Norfolk, in 1998. The henge was excavated for preservation in 1999 and is now housed at the Lynn Museum in King's Lynn, west Norfolk. The timbers were dated to the Spring or early Summer of 2049BC.