SOLD OUT - Introduction to Flintknapping Workshops (pay what you can)
Learn the ancient techniques used to shape flint, and create your very own hafted tool with flint, wood, twine, and pitch. Running every morning.
Learn the ancient techniques used to shape flint, and create your very own hafted tool with flint, wood, twine, and pitch. Running every morning.
Discover the metal that changed the world and craft your own bronze sword, axehead, knife, or torc in an intimate two-person workshop. Running on the 27th & 30th.
Discover the metal that changed the world and craft your own bronze sword, axehead, knife, or torc in an intimate two-person workshop.Running on the 15th, 22nd, & 30th.
Join us for a unique Summer Solstice experience where we will gather around the fire in our Iron Age roundhouse to hear stories and bathe in the sound of gongs.
Learn the most ancient skill there is: how to prepare an animal for the table. Skin, butcher, and cook a deer using traditional tools, techniques, and recipes.
A unique chance to explore the origins of British language with linguist and Medievalist Harriet Earis.
Learn to cook some of England’s oldest recipes like sweet Saxon bread, nettle and wild garlic soup, and meadowsweet mead, and feast in an authentic Saxon hall! Veggie and vegan-friendly options included.
Join us under the gentle glow of the new moon as we come together, connect, craft and reset for the month ahead. Visit the farm after dark for an evening of deep connection and personal renewal.
Discover a craft that has never been replicated by a machine! Learn the traditional and sustainable craft of basket weaving on this relaxed day course, and turn natural hedgerow materials into your own basket.
Get hands on with one of humanity’s greatest inventions, and experience ancient metalworking with our experimental archaeologist! Learn to smelt copper, create alloys, and cast bronze using 8,000-year-old tools and techniques — or what we think they might have been…
Discover the metal that changed the world and craft your own bronze sword, axehead, knife, or torc in an intimate two-person workshop. Running on the 7th, 14th, 20th, 22nd, 26th, & 28th.
Learn how to make cordage, a prehistoric form of string, in this ancient crafts workshop. Work with a variety of foraged, wild-growing plants and start work on a coil basket! Running both days this weekend.
Discover the wealth of delicious plants, mushrooms, and herbs growing wild in nature, and learn to forage for and cook a feast from nature’s bounty!
Explore the ancient art of amulet making, inspired by intricate Anglo Saxon pendants and brooches. Led by artist and maker Lydia Asscher, learn techniques originally developed in the Bronze Age.
Immerse yourself in nature and discover our ancestors’ most versatile little plant, used in clothing, cooking, and healing. It’s not just a weed! Forage for wild nettles and learn to spin their fibres into thread. Running each day this weekend.
Join us to celebrate the ancient Celtic Festival of Lammas or Lughnasadh, a celebration of the summer and the gathering of the first harvest. Music, storytelling and crafting will take place to celebrate the abundance of the earth and a successful harvest.
Discover the metal that changed the world and craft your own bronze sword, axehead, knife, or torc in an intimate two-person workshop. Running on the 2nd, 4th, 9th, 11th, 17th, 19th, 24th, & 26th.
Learn the most ancient skill there is: how to prepare an animal for the table. Skin, butcher, and cook a deer using traditional tools, techniques, and recipes.
Discover the sound of our ancestors and craft an ancient instrument used in performance and ritual by Neolithic, Celtic, Viking, and modern peoples. Running each day this weekend.
Explore the artistry of spoon carving, and discover the timeless craft of carving, shaping, and refining wooden spoons. Connect with tradition and create a functional and personalised piece of art.
Get hands on with one of humanity’s greatest inventions, and experience ancient metalworking with our experimental archaeologist! Learn to smelt copper, create alloys, and cast bronze using 8,000-year-old tools and techniques — or what we think they might have been…
Learn to cook some of England’s oldest recipes like sweet Saxon bread, nettle and wild garlic soup, and meadowsweet mead, and feast in an authentic Saxon hall! Veggie and vegan-friendly options included.
Discover the metal that changed the world and craft your own bronze sword, axehead, knife, or torc in an intimate two-person workshop. Running on the 1st, 7th, & 15th.
Learn how to make cordage, a prehistoric form of string, in this ancient crafts workshop. Work with a variety of foraged, wild-growing plants and start work on a coil basket! Running both days this weekend.
Discover a craft that has never been replicated by a machine! Learn the traditional and sustainable craft of basket weaving on this relaxed day course, and turn natural hedgerow materials into your own basket.
Discover the metal that changed the world and craft your own bronze sword, axehead, knife, or torc in an intimate two-person workshop. Running on the 12th, 26th, & 28th.
Discover the metal that changed the world and craft your own bronze sword, axehead, knife, or torc in an intimate two-person workshop. Running on the 1st, 3rd, & 30th.
Bring nature into your home and craft a gorgeous handmade hedgerow wreath! Immerse yourself in the timeless beauty of our Saxon meadhall in this calming escape from the bustle of modern Christmas. Running both days this weekend.
Discover the metal that changed the world and craft your own bronze sword, axehead, knife, or torc in an intimate two-person workshop. Running on the 7th & 15th.
Explore the artistry of spoon carving, and discover the timeless craft of carving, shaping, and refining wooden spoons. Connect with tradition and create a functional and personalised piece of art.
Discover the sound of our ancestors and craft an ancient instrument used in performance and ritual by Neolithic, Celtic, Viking, and modern peoples. Running each day this weekend.
Get hands on with one of humanity’s greatest inventions, and experience ancient metalworking with our experimental archaeologist! Learn to smelt copper, create alloys, and cast bronze using 8,000-year-old tools and techniques — or what we think they might have been…
Discover the metal that changed the world and craft your own bronze sword, axehead, knife, or torc in an intimate two-person workshop. Running weekends, Mondays, and Fridays in the Easter holidays.
Join us for a unique overnight storytelling and music experience in our beautiful Iron Age roundhouse. Explore the profound wealth of Celtic stories as doorways to your inner worlds.
Make a sword for Mother’s Day! Discover the metal that changed the world and craft your own bronze sword, axehead, knife, or torc in an intimate two-person workshop.
Join us under the gentle glow of the new moon as we come together, connect, craft and reset for the month ahead. Visit the farm after dark for an evening of deep connection and personal renewal.
Discover the metal that changed the world and craft your own bronze sword, axehead, knife, or torc in an intimate two-person workshop.
Gather in the Great Roundhouse as we mark the shortest day of the year with an afternoon of storytelling and meditation. Jonathon Huet will recite the ancient stories of the Celtic traditions with gentle drumming, poetry and prose.
Bring nature into your home and craft a gorgeous handmade hedgerow wreath!
Bring nature into your home and craft a gorgeous handmade hedgerow wreath!
Join us in the great roundhouse for a festive fireside evening of Winter storytelling with Red Phoenix, a magical and enthralling storyteller. After the storytelling we will have a cheeky visit from The Prize Old Mummers.
Join us in the great roundhouse for a festive fireside afternoon of Winter storytelling with Red Phoenix, a magical and enthralling storyteller. The perfect way to start your festive season together!
Looking for an unforgettable way to celebrate Halloween this year? When the veil between this world and the next is thin and the spirits of the past awaken, dive into the mystical and macabre at Butser Ancient Farm.
Join us to celebrate Samhain with an evening of storytelling and crafting in the atmospheric surroundings of the Great Roundhouse at Butser Ancient Farm.
Create your own wooden work of art! Learn the fundamentals of woodcarving using traditional tools and techniques in this relaxed, beginners-focused day course, and see your design take shape in wood.
Make pottery in the style of prehistory! Discover the history of this truly ancient craft, and learn the techniques used by prehistoric potters to make your own clay pot.
Discover a prehistoric form of knitting, and learn the Oslo nalbinding stitch used by the Vikings to create sturdy, warm clothes from mittens to socks!
Learn an ancient way to weave gorgeous designs, and craft your own Viking belt!
Discover the sound of our ancestors and craft an ancient instrument used in performance and ritual by Neolithic, Celtic, Viking, and modern peoples.
Learn to work with silver and craft a stunning annular brooch — the style worn by Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and beyond. Discover the ancient art of jewellery making, and create your own design!
Work with sterling silver to create the crown jewel of ancient treasure hoards — the Celtic torc! Learn a full range of silversmithing techniques from one of the UK’s leading historical metalworkers and craft your own silver wrist torc.
Craft a pair of stunning Celtic rings based on real finds from archaeology! Learn the fundamentals of jewellery-making and silversmithing on this day course led by one of the UK’s leading historical metalworkers.
Learn to cook some of England’s oldest recipes like sweet Saxon bread, nettle and wild garlic soup, and meadowsweet mead, and feast in an authentic Saxon hall!
Learn the most ancient skill there is: how to prepare an animal for the table. Skin, butcher, and cook a deer using traditional Saxon tools and techniques.
Learn a million-year-old technology, far pre-dating metalwork, and create one of humankind’s oldest tools!
Learn a million-year-old technology, far pre-dating metalwork, and create one of humankind’s oldest tools!
Make pottery in the style of prehistory! Discover the history of this truly ancient craft, and learn the techniques used by prehistoric potters to make your own clay pot.
Discover ancient art — prehistoric cave paintings, Iron Age shield decorations, Roman frescoes — and follow in our ancestors’ footsteps to craft pigments, paint, and even paintbrushes from nature!
Create your own wooden work of art! Learn the fundamentals of woodcarving using traditional tools and techniques in this relaxed, beginners-focused day course, and see your design take shape in wood.
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