Exhibition: The ground beneath our feet is not silent
March 28 - May 31
For thousands of years, soil has preserved traces of human lives — objects buried, lost, repaired, hidden, and forgotten. Stories from the Soil explores how the earth acts as a kind of memory, holding fragments of the past while quietly reshaping them over time.
Bringing together objects from the Groam House Museum collection — including prehistoric burial urns, trade weights, coins, metal-detected finds, and the much-discussed “elf shot” — the exhibition looks at what happens to objects after they leave human hands. Meaning fades, changes, or is remade through rediscovery, folklore, archaeology, and imagination.
Rather than telling a single, fixed story, Stories from the Soil invites visitors to reflect on how objects carry multiple lives: from use, to loss, to burial, to reinterpretation. What survives is never complete — and that incompleteness is part of the story.
As you move through the exhibition, you are invited to consider not only what the soil remembers, but how we continue the story today.