North Somerset, Bath and North-East Somerset

For anyone who lives within travelling distance of Bath, this street exhibition is well worth catching – in the square by Bath Abbey:

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Sponsored by Ordinance Survey and wecommunic8.com

Wonderful arial poster-photos in wooden stands with thought provoking commentary under each display.

Uffington White Horse caught my eye (as I sat down in the sunshine to listen to a classical guitarist). There was also Abor Low; Dartmoor and Tors; Maiden Castle; the South Downs; St Kilda; the Brecon Beacons; and much, much more.

“The Monkswood hoard was found in the St Catherine’s valley near Bath during the construction of a reservoir in the 1930s. It contains 38 pieces of Bronze age metalwork. This talk by Stephen Clews, Manager of the Roman Baths & Pump Room, looks at the objects in the hoard from the perspective of what they can tell us about people and society in the area around Bath nearly 3,000 years ago.”

The Guildhall, Bath
Tuesday 17 February 2009, 1.10- 1.45pm
Refreshments on sale from 12.45pm
Admission free

Samuel Palmer to the Ruralists..
An exhibition that has opened at the Victoria Gallery, Bath.

Paul Nash’s Eclipse of the Sunflower is there, also Druid Landscape, Megalithic Landscape and work by Graham Sutherland, and The Ruralists of course who lived in Wiltshire, Inshaw painted Silbury and the Owl. Small portion of megalithic paintings there but they are split over the two exhibitions....

victoriagal.org.uk/index.cfm?alias=ancient

Catalogue £20!