We have constructed and measured by hand a 539‐atom model for the structure of amorphous selenium. The model consists of densely packed but convoluted chains of covalently bonded 2‐fold coordinated atoms. The model was computer relaxed under potentials that represent bending and stretching of covalent bonds and the van der Waals interactions between the chains. The density and the first four peaks in the radial distribution function are compared with some success with experimental results on amorphous Se and new insight into its structure is obtained.