The Salmonsbury Exhibition is the culmination of a yearlong project combining art and archaeology: a unique collaboration between artists, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, and the Corinium Museum. It is an exhibition of art created in response to the site and its archaeology, alongside artefacts from the archive. 

The artists exhibiting are Amanda Steer, Andy Freedman, Caroline Morris, Ffin Coffin Price, Ruth Broadbent and Zoe Ashbrook 

Salmonsbury Camp is a scheduled site in Bourton-on-the-Water. There is evidence for activity from the Neolithic and Bronze Age. The camp itself is Iron Age in date with activity continuing into the Roman occupation. Excavations have found Anglo Saxon burials and Medieval Ridge and Furrow. The site was used as the meeting place for the hundred court of Salmonsbury. It is now a farm and nature reserve. The paper archive at the Corinium Museum includes digs from the Thirties up to the 2000’s: also revealing some of the story of the Helen O’Neil, a redoubtable female archaeologist.  

The project investigated archaeological and artistic engagement to the historic and natural landscape and includes an engagement day on site.   

Our aim – to bring the archive into the community and the community into the archive. 

During this exhibition, Sally Pointer, award-winning experimental archaeologist and heritage educator, is leading a workshop ‘An Introduction to Prehistoric Textiles’.  

https://coriniummuseum.org/event/an-introduction-to-prehistoric-textiles/