Held in Gallery 7, West Berkshire Museum, 2nd May to 21st September 2018
The Curator of West Berkshire Museum, Ruth Howard, kindly invited us to set up an exhibition to celebrate our 60th Anniversary.
This illustrated projects in which we have taken part in West Berkshire in the 1960s, 1980s and during the last five years.
The earliest of these was the excavation of the Lambourn long barrow led by John Wymer in 1964. Then in the 1980s, the excavation of the late Bronze Age site on Weathercock Hill was exclusively a Research Group project, as was the examination of the ancient ‘Celtic’ field boundaries on the Berkshire Downs. Recently in the Community project with Boxford History Project and Cotswold Archaeology, BARG researched three sites in Roman Boxford, at Hoar Hill, Wyfield Manor and Mud Hole where the Roman mosaic was uncovered!
We also set up two activities especially for children in the Gallery: ‘pretend you are an archaeologist’ and ‘what can you see in this test pit?’
The exhbition has now closed, but some of its display boards and cases can be in seen in the the pictures below.
Left: Prehistoric Display; Right: Activities Board and test pit display
Above: General View of exhbition in Gallery 7
Above: Another view of the exhibition in Gallery 7