last scatterings of coins

A last scatter of coins

events for

Hoards: a hidden history of ancient Britain

 

from our "Curious Coins" morning

"sow's ears and silk purses"

The coins have scattered across the board, fallen on the floor, jingled into purses, rattled into chests. Anxious haste or determined greed has wrapped our treasures in rags and wood and buried them deep or hidden them sneakily…..

Hoards: a hidden history of ancient Britain is nearing the end of its visit to Buxton Museum and Art Gallery. If you haven’t been yet, you only have until 16^th June to rush in and soak up some of that gleaming golden light or take in the fascinating tales behind the finds

Pirate Nancy (see below)

the Bee-guarded box of the Horrible Pirate nancy with her hover-board go-cart....

Our events programme is reaching its end as well.

Still to come

Thursday 6 June,

Managing modern hoards!

Buxton Museum, 12noon–4pm

Drop into the Museum to get information on handling household finances and managing debt from the money advisors at Citizens Advice Derbyshire District. 

a certaing piggy quality to the hoarding of hoards....

Sunday June 9^th Pottery Piggy Banks with Sue Blatherwick at Dove Valley Centre: this event is now sold out but you could keep an eye on the Eventbrite list (or let me know if you could take a last minute place: creepingtoad@btinternet.com)

Work with potter Sue to design and make your very own pottery piggy bank. Sticky clay and messy hands, fascinating colours and exciting shapes, our Piggies will add an extra delight to our season of Hoards
Venue: Dove Valley Centre, Longnor
Places: free but must be booked in AdvanceBook at: www.buxtonmuseum.eventbrite.co.uk

 

Torcs from the Leekfrith Hoard

Wednesday June 12^th

Talk: Talking Torcs: the Leekfrith Hoard

Buxton Museum, 11 – 12

Teresa Gilmore, Finds Liaison Officer for Staffordshire & the West Midlands, will talk about this fascinating collection of Iron Age gold jewellery found in 2017 in the Staffordshire Moorlands.

No booking needed – just come along and settle down for an interesting hour!

Saturday June 15^th

Talk: The Goldfield - Iron Age Hoards from Snettisham, Norfolk

Buxton Museum, 15.00 – 16.00

Julia Farley from the British Museum is visiting Buxton to talk about the spectacular Snettisham Hoards:

For over 60 years spectacular discoveries have been made at Snettisham, northwest Norfolk. At least 12 separate hoards of artefacts including torcs, coins, rings, bracelets and ingots have been discovered. Collectively they are known as the ‘Snettisham Treasure’ and form the largest deposit of gold, silver and bronze artefacts dating from the Iron Age found in Europe.

flip a coin....

Make your own pottery piggy bank!

Pottery Piggies!

make your own!

Sunday 9th June

JUST A FEW PLACES LEFT!

From ancient oracular pigs to to the terrible Twrch Twyth, from engimatic carved Pictish boars to hogsback Viking tombs, pigs lie in the history and mythology of this land. You might sing the Boar's Head Carol at Midwinter or simply enjoy the gruntling of piglets, but we hope that pigs matter to you as well. Now, join us for a bit of pig-making.....

Work with potter Sue Blatherwick to design and make your very own pottery piggy bank. Sticky clay and messy hands, fascinating colours and exciting shapes, our Piggies will add an extra delight to our season of Hoards

Venue: Dove Valley Centre, Longnor

Places: free but must be booked in advance

Book at: Pottery Piggy Banks

We'll be thinking about ways of keeping treasures safe, holding, hoarding, hiding them until.....Will you make a smiling cheerful little pig filling up happily with stray 5ps? Or will your Piggy be a blundering Boar, all bristles and tusks and ready to defend your pennies as fiercely as any dragon? Sticky clay and messy hands, fascinating colours and exciting shapes, our Piggies will add an extra delight to our season of Hoards.

Date: Sunday 9th June 2019

Venue: Dove Valley Centre, Longnor

Times: 11.00 - 16.00 - you will need to bring a packed lunch

Further details etc will be confirmed through eventbrite nearer the time

This workshop is part of the Museum's public event programme to accompany "Hoards: a hidden history of ancient Britain"

gather your own Hoard - events

From dragons to coins to something to keep them in,

events for Hoards,

May 2019

A heap, a hoard, a treasure, a treat…a glitter of staters across a cave floor, the gleam of a brooch in darkness, a dream wrapped and bound and hidden in hope. What makes a hoard so special - and so very personal?

The Hoards: a hidden history of ancient Britain exhibition is still shining its way through the galleries of Buxton Museum and Art Gallery and our next set of events is coming up fast. Why not come and join us? All events are free and where materials are involved, they will be provided. Children of 7 years and less need to bring an adult with them but otherwise events are open to everyone

Sunday 26 May, 12 noon–3.30pm
Giants, dragons and terrible traps
How would you protect your hoard? Would there be a monster rumbling in a corner? Would there be a dragon resting on the pile of your gold? Or would you design some terrible trap, a maze of crushing rocks and flying spikes and trapdoors to flip a robber into a bottomless pit….
Cartoonist Martin Olsson will help you draw your treasure and how you would keep it hidden! Allow 45 minutes.
Venue: Buxton Museum


Thursday 30 May, 10am–12noon
Make and take: curious coins
Counting your pennies…..what coins will fill your hoard? Have a look at the coins in the exhibiton: there are horses and hands, gods and heroes, numbers, names and things we cannot decipher. Would you be the face on your lost gold? Would you hoard some unicorn pennies or open hand thruppenies, or wren farthings…..
Design your own coins with local artist Sarah Males.
Allow 45 minutes.
Venue: Buxton Museum

Sunday 2 June, 12noon–3.30pm
Silk purses and sow’s ears
“What would hold your hoard? Do you want  a beautiful patterned purse, all beads and embroidery? Or would you like a painted pouch pulled tight with a drawstring to hold your hoarded coins safe? Or maybe you are a sow’s ear person, a folded twist of old leather, tough as boots and bristling with a the last of a pig’s hair
Make your own treasure bag with Creeping Toad, a special something to keep your coins in. Allow 45 minutes.
Venue: Buxton Museum

These events overlap with our wonderful half.fish festival. You don’t know about our mermaid excitements? Go here for a sense of the tide that is running!

dive into half.fish

Maps, dragons and tiger-leopards

A golden dragon sits on a crumpled map

First Hoards events 

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

what direction for an enchanted compass?

We never really know what’s going to happen on an event. We can be fairly sure of the materials we will use and the general direction of activity but it is hard, when planning for dragons, to anticipate Dandelion Cats

We have started plotting the stories of our hoards now

There were maps to take you to a hidden hoard if you are clever enough to decipher the clues and brave enough to risk the dangers…

Under the sea?

In a pyramid?

Near the swings in the park?

On the other side of the moon?

Surrounded by trees and fiercely guarded by a cat!

Where will you hide your treasure? 

And how will you know how to find it?

one side tiger, t'other leopard....

Today, there were dragons hatching from golden eggs to guard golden hoards….or maybe not. Hence the Dandelion Cats who guard golden flowers for bumblebees. There were several very laid back foxes who could sort of, maybe, OK now and then, guard, well, something. Someone had said, you know, Someone asked them to…well, someone offered to pay…but what are pennies to a fox who is counting rabbits?

And there is an ongoing question: what do you value? 

What is the precious thing that you would keep safe for centuries? 

Would it be golden wonders? 

Or a pottery ball full of coins? 

Or seeds for a future flowering? 

Friendship?

Dandelion Cat

And there was Molly, the Tiger Leopard, guarding her wonderful little Leopard Cub, the rarest cub in all the world. And there was Bessie the Bear with her Unicorns who were very interested in that same cub…..

The next Hoards events are as follows. All these events are at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery and all events are free and unless it says otherwise, you can just turn up and join in. With talks please arrive for the scheduled start. For other events allow 30 minutes at least for the activity.

1. Dave the Moneyer, Saturday 27^th and Sunday 28^th April, 12 – 3.30pm. Come and watch how money used to be made….

More details, here: https://buxtonmuseumandartgallery.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/a-glitter-of-coins-event/

Or here: https://www.facebook.com/events/830578163972722/

DAve's own company, Grunal Moneta, can be visited, here. 

see note at end of entry

2. Talk: Hoards and hordes – the Viking conquest and settlement of the East Midlands,

Tuesday 30 April, 11am–12noon Join British Museum curator Gareth Williams to find out how archaeological discoveries combine with historical evidence and place-names to shape our understanding of the Viking presence in Derbyshire and surrounds.

More information here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2214633065510425/

3. Managing your own Hoard

Thursday 2 May, 12noon–4pm

Get information on handling household finances and managing debt from the money advisors at Citizens Advice Derbyshire District.

4. Treasure Chests 

Sunday 5 May, 12noon–3.30pm

Make and take a treasure chest for the hoard you haven't got yet...or that you might be hiding under the bed. In a sock. With a dragon. Allow 45 minutes.

More information:

Here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2153931458047298/

Or here; http://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2019/03/from-maps-to-dragons-events-at-buxton.html

Or call Buxton Museum and Art Gallery on 01629 533540

These events are for Buxton Museum and Art Gallery as part of the Hoards Event Programme. Some of them are Creeping Toad activities. Others belong to the wider events programme and we just think they are lovely and should be supported….

Hoards: a hidden history of ancient Britain

A British Museum and Salisbury Museum Partnership Exhibition

This exhibition runs from Saturday 13^th April to Sunday 16^th June, 2019 in Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

Vikings: we had a Viking today with a very big, very fluffy beard who sailed away in an eggshell boat - probably following a treasure map drawn by a fox.... 

And many thanks to our friends from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust who joined us on Sunday on such a lovely day we had hardly any visitors!

A Golden Afternoon

More Hoarded days…..

A curling golden dragon armlet,

A shining golden ring

Who knows what treasures,

A spring afternoon may bring

A Golden Day,

Sunday 21st April 

at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

12.00 - 3.30

As the Hoards exhibition unrolls its treasures in Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, we are unfolding our own series of Hoarding events to accompany it (you can download a copy of the full events programme at this Hoards link)

Reynard's Kitchen Cave hoard

Using a set of questions to shape our plans, our events respond to the challenges

• Where would you hide your hoard? (Tricky Treasure Maps, 18^th April)
• What would guard your hoard? (Here be Dragons 25^th April, Giants, Dragons and Terrible Traps, 26^th May)
• What treasures would your Hoard hold? (A Golden Day 21^st April, Curious Coins 30^th May)
• What will hold your Hoard? (Treasure Chests 5^th May, Silk Purses and Sow’s Ears 15^th May, 2^nd June; Pottery Piggies 9^th June)

Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll get entries on all of these on this blog (a couple are already linked in the list above)

Meanwhile, keep an eye on the Museum website and on the Creeping Toad facebook page for details

A Golden Day

Sunday 21^st April

12 – 3.30
at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

An afternoon starting your own hoard: make your own treasure. There will be the broken shells of golden eggs hatching golden fish perhaps, or beautiful birds. Maybe your own golden brooch or badge. 

A curling golden dragon armlet,

A shining golden ring

Who knows what treasures,

A spring afternoon may bring

Collect a golden stone to share some golden moments among the High Peak Rocks. Meet the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and find out more about Nature’s own gold-keepers and hoard-makers

• Materials provided
• Free
• No booking needed: just drop by and join in
• Last entry 3.00pm

This is a Creeping Toad event for Buxton Museum and Art Gallery as part of the Hoards Event Programme

Hoards: a hidden history of ancient Britain

A British Museum and Salisbury Museum Partnership Exhibition

This exhibition runs from Saturday 13^th April to Sunday 16^th June, 2019 in Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

some treasures simply live all around us

From maps to dragons, events at Buxton Museum

from Treasure Maps to Dragons

the first events for "Hoards"

April in Buxton Museum

We're getting going on our plans for Hoards now....the programme is out, the ideas are in, reckless enthusiasm is shaping the creativity..we will have dragons, there will be golden stones and ferocious piggy banks!

First Creeping Toad events

there is a wider programme of activity - link to follow

TRICKY TREASURE MAPS

Thursday 18^th April

10am – 12 noon

Where would you hide your hoard?

What clues would you offer to the lost treasures of Grin Low, the buried wonders of Pavilion Gardens, or the Terrible Treasures of Skellybob Wood?

10 paces, 2 paces. 

A hop, a skip and a jump. 

Head north and east 

Or west and south. 

Turn around and sing….under  the bridge and over the river, 

Behind the rock, 

Behind the rocks,

Behind the last hope of any help…..

Join artist Sarah Males for a morning of wild invention: draw your own treasure map. Add as many wonderful things and terrible obstacles as can fit on a crumpled sheet of paper

No ideas? No problem! Just take a wander through the Wonders of the Peaks gallery, or even better, loiter in the Hoards exhibition…

• Materials provided
• Free
• No booking needed: just drop by and join in
• Last entry 11.30

This is a Creeping Toad event for Buxton Museum and Art Gallery as part of the Hoards Event Programme

Hoards: a hidden history of ancient Britain

A British Museum and Salisbury Museum Partnership Exhibition

This exhibition runs from Saturday 13^th April to Sunday 16^th June, 2019 in Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

HERE BE DRAGONS

Thursday 25th April

10am – 12 noon

What will guard your hoard?

Or whose hoard are you setting out to steal? Will you slide a golden coin from under the fiery belly and watchful gaze of Smaug the Dragon? Will the Wyrm of Wormhill find its treasure plundered? Or will l there be a dragon under your bed who will wrap herself up in dressing gowns and gold and keep your treasure quite, quite safe?

Then, we should remember that Gryphons are the Hereditary Guardians of Treasure so maybe you would like an eagle-headed, lion-bodied, wide-winged friend nesting in the shrub at the bottom of your garden. Or maybe we just need a fluffy kitten to distract people…..

On this morning, we’ll be making dragons….just little ones but as friendly or as ferocious as you like

• Materials provided
• Free
• No booking needed: just drop by and join in
• Last entry 11.30

This is a Creeping Toad event for Buxton Museum and Art Gallery as part of the Hoards Event Programme

Hoards: a hidden history of ancient Britain

A British Museum and Salisbury Museum Partnership Exhibition

This exhibition runs from Saturday 13^th April to Sunday 16^th June, 2019 in Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

Watch out for our Golden Day 

on Sunday 21^st April, details to follow