Watercolour looking along a grassy ridge towards a chalk cut figure of a White Horse on the top of the hill.

Weston Loan Programme support for Eric Ravilious: Downland Man exhibition

We are delighted that we have been awarded a £25,000 grant from the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund to support our Eric Ravilious: Downland Man exhibition, opening in September 2020. The exhibition will feature loans from from V&A, British Museum, Imperial War Museum, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

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Axe and dagger carvings on one of the sarsen trilithons at Stonehenge and the axe and dagger found at Bush Barrow.

Where did the gold from the time of Stonehenge come from? Analysing the Bush Barrow dagger.

The results are now in! Did the Bronze Age gold, found in a burial close to Stonehenge, came from Britain, Ireland or Brittany. Located close to Stonehenge, Bush Barrow is Britain's richest Bronze Age burial.  The most remarkable discovery was a gold-studded dagger pommel, set with thousands of microscopic gold

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