A brilliant little series of video shorts that explore history in a way that brings the past to life #Nerdlings that's also good #Minspiration for #Wargaming scenery too!
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A brilliant little series of video shorts that explore history in a way that brings the past to life #Nerdlings that's also good #Minspiration for #Wargaming scenery too!
In Part 7 of our Bronze Age mini-series with Operation Nightingale, it almost felt like we were taking two steps forward and two steps back...
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Mother's Day has come early at the farm! ✨🐏 One of our lovely Manx Loaghtan ewes gave birth to twin boy lambs over the weekend, and they're all doing great.
This Sunday, mums & mother figures can enjoy FREE entry to the farm to celebrate Mother's Day!
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Any time!!!
Counting down the hours 'til the Great #PotteryThrowdown finale? 🏺 We have the remedy for all that excitement - book a space on one of our pottery courses this April!
- Ceramic labyrinths
- Sculptural masks
- Raku-fired Celtic lanterns
Find out more: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/whats-on/cal...
In Part 6 of our 'Rebuilding the Bronze Age' mini-series with Operation Nightingale, it's time to raise the central post!
How difficult can it be to place? Trickier than you might think... As our team soon discovered!
Watch & subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEbD...
How do you build a giant wickerman? 🧐🔥
This month on the Butser Plus blog, we sat down with the innovative duo behind our Beltain wickerman.
What does it take to build a 30ft willow sculpture? And how does it feel to see months of work burn to ash?
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Mums go FREE this Mother’s Day! ✨🌱🤰🏻
Visit us on Sunday 15th March for a special day in the spring sunshine: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/whats-on/cal...
Have-a-go archery, crafting with cards & candles, make bracelets, meet our rare breed animals & enjoy the beautiful South Downs countryside!
How do you make prehistoric concrete? 🧐
In Part 5 of our Bronze Age mini-series with Operation Nightingale, the team bashed up chalk to make clunch for the roundhouse walls!
Find out how they got on & subscribe to the rest of the series on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKY4...
Mums go FREE this Mother’s Day! ✨🌱🤰🏻
Visit us on Sunday 15th March for a special day in the spring sunshine: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/whats-on/cal...
Have-a-go archery, crafting with cards & candles, make bracelets, meet our rare breed animals & enjoy the beautiful South Downs countryside!
We are SO excited to welcome Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne to the Great Roundhouse next Fri! Join us for the dawn of spring with traditional & original songs from an award-winning singer & squeezebox player.
Tickets: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/whats-on/cal...
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x5H...
This week on the Butser blog, we're exploring the mindful art of rope weaving! 🌀
On 22 March, we'll host ropemaker Sue Pennison for a workshop in our Roman villa, where participants will weaving their own hemp rope into this beautiful trivet.
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Today @butserancientfarm.co.uk Dave and I sourced from various old project left overs and cut timbers to create the rear roof and roof supports for a covered area beside the car park. Its really make do and reuse; much of it used to be the pigsty walls.
Been enjoying these little video dairies on archaeological science experiments in round house building.
In the fourth part of our Bronze Age mini-series with Operation Nightingale, the team try their hand at making turf walls and decorating the roundhouse with figurine carvings and pottery! 🏺
Watch & subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3mE...
How do you lay the foundations of a roundhouse? 🧐
In Part 3 of our 'Rebuilding the Bronze Age' mini-series, our timber team take us through the post and lintel framework of our new roundhouse!
Watch & subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEx...
Relaxing before last week’s show at @butserancientfarm.co.uk
#Storyteller #storytelling #performancestorytelling
How do you encourage kids to read books in the age of digital distraction? 🧐
This week in our learning newsletter LESSONS FROM THE PAST, we'll be celebrating literacy with an interview with bestselling children's author Caroline Lawrence.
Subscribe free: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/learning/res...
Finally, someone's offering technology we can believe in.
Looking for World Book Day costume ideas? We've got you! 🔥⚔🏺
And if you're looking for historical learning resources, check out our FREE educational newsletter - Lessons from the Past - perfect for feeding curious minds inside & outside the classroom: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/learning/res...
There's still time to enter our prize draw to win a Bronze Axe Head! 🔥
To celebrate the relaunch of our supporters' platform Butser Plus, we are giving away this beautiful axe head made by our archaeo-bronzesmith Jim Clift.
Find out more & enter here:
a fireside seat in Little Woodbury roundhouse at Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire. a wrought iron open hearth with logs roaring on fire, illuminating the audience.
genuinely amazing night at @butserancientfarm.co.uk watching @jasonstoryteller.bsky.social storming a tell-through of Slaine the Horned God in just *the best* surroundings. even bumped into fellow Grog @mcookie123.bsky.social and better half
i'm actually lost for words at just how good this was.
Me and Percy at Butser!
Lovely skull on the round house
A warm welcome (fire blazing)
Lights leading the way to the round house under a night sky!
Great evening at @butserancientfarm.co.uk with the enthralling story telling of @jasonstoryteller.bsky.social !
My two beloved Slaine fans seemed to be enjoying it a LOT too—though Percy asks when Jason will tackle Strontium Dog?
That was a cracking evening spent in the fire-light of #LittleWoodbury @butserancientfarm.co.uk listening to the tales of Slaine “The Horned God” @2000ad.bsky.social recounted by @jasonstoryteller.bsky.social Many thanks 🙏
Look what some lovely audience chums made for me, and brought to my Sláine show at @butserancientfarm.co.uk last night! A brass coin, with show details in the obverse and Sláine’s profile on the reverse. Beautiful!
@2000ad.bsky.social
Me and my lovely child in the Butser round house both grinning happily! Great evening!
A @butserancientfarm.co.uk photo!
interior of a tapering conical roof of woven willow branches.
view over a wicker fence of assorted iron-age roundhouses.
a mesolithic re-enactor busy re-binding his stone spearhead using natural resins and beeswax. he told me he's just watched Gladiator 2 and wasn't at all impressed.
fabulous day's time-travelling at @butserancientfarm.co.uk today but inevitably i now want to build miniature houses from mesolithic to saxon and stages in between, with bits n bobs n furniture all to suit
Over the last 2 weeks, we’ve been given the fantastic opportunity of holding a hedgelaying course thanks to funding from East Hampshire District Council. But what is hedgelaying, and why is this traditional craft still relevant today?
Read more here: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/blog/2026/2/...
How do you raise a roundhouse frame without power tools? 🧐
During the second session of our Operation Nightingale project in 2021, we prepared the timber posts that would form the uprights to support the roof of our building.
Watch & subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDEn...
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