Artists Ruth Broadbent, Andy Freeman, Valerie Coffin Price and Caroline Morris have taken as their inspiration the layers of history on Abbey Home Farm land and created work to complement the artefacts.

The exhibition will present a selection of exhibits from Will Chester-Master’s museum of farm finds, displayed alongside art inspired by walking the landscape where many of the finds were discovered.  Prehistoric worked flints come up in the plough soils, along with shards of Roman pottery. This land was Abbey land, is crossed by Roman roads, a disused 19th-century railway line and was blasted through by a dual carriageway. Will and Hilary Chester-Master are the custodians of land, which carries the traces of many thousands of years of history.

 Artists Ruth Broadbent, Andy Freeman, Valerie Coffin Price and Caroline Morris have taken as their inspiration the layers of history on Abbey Home Farm land and created work to complement the artefacts. Archaeological research and photography was undertaken by Tabitha Grist Parker.

 During the exhibition there will be engagement activities for children and adults, including archaeological drawing workshop, flint-handling sessions, a Finds Identification day with Gloucestershire’s Finds Liaison Officer and a walk through the history of the landscape on the farm.

 Will Chester-Master says: “The flints found on the farm tell us that the Neolithic people were settled at Abbey Home Farm 6,000 years ago when hunter gatherers were becoming farmers. To be able display them at the museum is a great opportunity to share our history with a wider public. Farming on the land continues to this day!”

For more information visit coriniummuseum.org/event/field-walking/