Discovered hidden beneath the floorboards in Wickham Heath farmhouse
National storytelling week );
Everyone has a story to tell and museums and libraries are bursting with them
Highlights of West Berkshire Museum Collection
The Stories We Tell
WEST Berkshire Museum remains closed to the public for now. However, a new exhibition called The Stories We Tell will be launched when the museum reopens.
It will display folklore stories relating to places and people of West Berkshire and will also include objects that have a connection to local folklore events or with a legendary or mythological narrative. The exhibition will explore the relationship between fact and fiction and truths and untruths within stories. A few of the objects on display will include a modern Hand of Glory, a Festival of Flowers programme and some shoes found beneath floorboards.
Roman and medieval treasure finds acquired by West Berkshire Museum
Contact the finds liaison officer about your discoveries
Trish Lee
by Philip Smither, Berkshire finds liaison officer
THROUGHOUT the year members of the public, whether through chance or metal detecting, come to West Berkshire Museum to have objects they have found identified and recorded on the national Portable Antiquities Scheme database (www.finds.org.uk). Sometimes these objects are designated as treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act (www.finds.org.uk/treasure/advice/ summary). They are reported to the British Museum and every so often local museums are given the chance to acquire the objects from the landowner or finder.