A creative response to Salmonsbury Camp combining art and archaeology through the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust Greystones Nature reserve and the archaeological archive held at the Corinium Museum.
The Salmonsbury Moot project investigates both an archaeological and artistic engagement and response to the historic landscape, through an engagement day on site (01/08/26) and a month-long exhibition at the Corinium Museum.
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 court leet of the Salmonsbury hundred. 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’Neill, a redoubtable female archaeologist.
The Salmonsbury Moot Exhibition, Corinium Museum of art, Cirencester opens 10th September through to 11th October 2026.
The exhibition will mark the culmination of a yearlong project combining art and archaeology: a unique collaboration between artist, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, and the Corinium Museum. On display will be artworks created in response to the site, alongside artefacts from the archive.
Iron Age Camp pottery shard artefacts
Six Walking the Land artists engaged in the project are: Zoe Ashbrook, Ruth Broadbent, Valerie Coffin Price, Andy Freedman, Amanda Steer and project lead Caroline Morris.
Caroline was awarded Developing Your Creative Practice funding from ACE to develop the project.
https://www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk/nature-reserves/greystones-farm