Don’t just study history - experience it! Get hands-on with our award-winning educational programme, and spend a day learning all about the ancient past.

Celebrate the dawn of spring in our Great Roundhouse with soulful folksong, traditional tunes, and masterful squeezebox melodies by Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne.

Renowned Master Arrowsmith and Fletcher Will Sherman, introduces you and one other person to dip your toes into the beginnings of his craft during a 2-hour session. With his portable forge he will help each person to make 2 different arrowheads to take home - a Type 8 medieval bodkin, and a tanged Viking hunting head!  Also included is a 1 hour have-a-go archery session for continuous shooting.

Gain valuable training and confidence in how to deliver bushcraft knife-based activities to groups. Help children and young people to expand their horizons while connecting with the natural world in a safe and enjoyable way.

Learn an endangered craft deeply rooted to rural life, from one of the last remaining tutors in the country. Connected to the rhythms of the earth, corn dollies were also known as harvest tokens. A soothing and relaxing activity, this workshop is beginner friendly.

Learn the ancient techniques used to shape flint, and create your very own hafted tool with flint, wood, twine, and pitch.

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.

Join experienced heritage tutor Kat Wootton under an awe-inspiring roundhouse roof to weave your own belt using natural fibres and backstrap looms.  Immerse yourself in ancestral crafts as you learn ancient techniques in the atmospheric buildings of our forebears as you are led in this historic and meditative technique.

Take part in an endangered heritage craft, and work in a small group to twist your own rope using a hand-powered mechanism. Learn from experienced rope maker Sue Pennison as you are guided to create your own rope trivet - a useful addition to any home!

To kick off the Easter holidays, Rattlebox and Angel Heart Theatre bring the Nordic myths to life in this riotous afternoon puppet adventure through the thunder god’s greatest triumphs… and most ridiculous mistakes!

To kick off the Easter holidays, Rattlebox and Angel Heart Theatre bring the Nordic myths to life in this riotous evening puppet adventure through the thunder god’s greatest triumphs… and most ridiculous mistakes!

Create a functional, relief finger labyrinth, which you can further personalise to your own unique design using various coloured slips.

Spend a day learning various sculptural techniques to create your own artistic expression of a mask, including a variety of slips and mark making techniques.

Create a functional, relief finger labyrinth, which you can further personalise to your own unique design using various coloured slips.

Celebrate spring and the spellbinding sounds of the harp in the ancient setting of Butser’s Great Roundhouse, with renowned concert harpist Keziah Thomas.

Participants will pick from a variety of reliefs and glaze a pre-bisque fired, Celtic lantern. After personalising it by applying glazes, it will be Raku fired as you wait.

Design and build you own copper table decoration. Begin with a small guided walk where you will forage for inspiring natural material. Nestled within the beauty of the South Downs National Park, you will then spend time translating your found inspiration and ideas into copper - resulting in a personal piece of art for your home.

Participants will pick from a variety of reliefs and glaze a pre-bisque fired, Celtic lantern. After personalising it by applying glazes, it will be Raku fired as you wait.

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.

Guided by two experienced maille-makers, learn to make your own piece of history to take away with you. Craft a bracelet, patch, and five links of riveted maille to gain hands-on experience of various tools and methods.

Learn how to craft a matching set of Viking weave jewellery in our Saxon Hall. Guided by expert Holly Berkley, craft a necklace and beaten spiral pendant, a bracelet, matching earrings and a beaten spiral ring.

Create a Stone Age Sewing Kit with natural materials under the guidance of Sally Pointer. Explore the evidence for kits based on archaeology and anthropology.

Step back in time and experience the wonders of ancient copper metallurgy! From smelting copper from malachite to creating bronze alloys and casting your own metal object, you’ll be hands-on with the processes that shaped human history.

Create a Stone Age Sewing Kit with natural materials under the guidance of Sally Pointer. Explore the evidence for kits based on archaeology and anthropology.

Learn how to craft 5 ancient copper ring designs based on historic finds. Guided by expert Holly Berkley.

Reach back in time to discover how the ancient world was connected through amber. Create your own amber pendant and string under the guidance of experimental archaeologist Vanessa Bunton.

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.

Learn an endangered craft deeply rooted to rural life, from one of the last remaining tutors in the country. Connected to the rhythms of the earth, corn dollies were also known as harvest tokens. A soothing and relaxing activity, this workshop is for those with some previous experience.

Bone is a versatile material used through history. Gain inspiration from examining bone objects before being guided to create your own from a selection of choices! Use tools from prehistory to early medieval under the guidance of experimental archaeologist Vanessa Bunton.

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.

Gather by the fire for a session of hands-on history - handling artefacts, skins and braiding your own leather tooth necklace! This introduction to the Stone Age rocks!

Come join local storyteller Bernadette Russell to unearth Hampshire’s hidden magic with tales of giants, witches, and sleeping kings from local lore!

Explore & enjoy making your own unique botanical relief roundel and learn from experienced local artist Josie Butler how to paint a plaster impression using a mini botanical cast.

Guided by two experienced maille-makers, learn to make your own piece of history to take away with you. Craft a bracelet, patch, and five links of riveted maille to gain hands-on experience of various tools and methods.

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.

Step back in time and experience the wonders of ancient copper metallurgy! From smelting copper from malachite to creating bronze alloys and casting your own metal object, you’ll be hands-on with the processes that shaped human history.

Learn an endangered craft deeply rooted to rural life, from one of the last remaining tutors in the country. Connected to the rhythms of the earth, corn dollies were also known as harvest tokens. A soothing and relaxing activity, this workshop is beginner friendly.

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.

Design and build you own copper table decoration. Begin with a small guided walk where you will forage for inspiring natural material. Nestled within the beauty of the South Downs National Park, you will then spend time translating your found inspiration and ideas into copper - resulting in a personal piece of art for your home.

Step back in time and experience the wonders of ancient copper metallurgy! From smelting copper from malachite to creating bronze alloys and casting your own metal object, you’ll be hands-on with the processes that shaped human history.

Discover the historic use of plants in the Butser Gardens, and create your own ointment. Explore how plants through time have been used for food, flavourings, dye, medical treatments, strewing, and making protection amulets.

Reach back in time to discover how the ancient world was connected through amber. Create your own amber pendant and string under the guidance of experimental archaeologist Vanessa Bunton.

Reach back in time to learn the essential skill of weaving nets. Make a useful bottle holder, a net bag and start a straight net under the tutelage of experimental archaeologist Vanessa Bunton.

Step back in time and experience the wonders of ancient copper metallurgy! From smelting copper from malachite to creating bronze alloys and casting your own metal object, you’ll be hands-on with the processes that shaped human history.

Join us fireside to travel through a year of nature as you hear old stories about familiar flowers. End with making scented Saxon Amulet Beads with ingredients you have heard about from the ancient tales.

Discover a prehistoric form of knitting, and learn nalbinding stitches used by the Vikings to create sturdy, warm clothes from mittens to socks!

Grow your nalbinding knowledge and discover how to do the Oslo stitch, a stitching technique that dates back to the pre-historical period.

Learn an endangered craft deeply rooted to rural life, from one of the last remaining tutors in the country. Connected to the rhythms of the earth, corn dollies were also known as harvest tokens. A soothing and relaxing activity, this workshop is beginner friendly.

Learn to make a decorated copper arm cuff in the style of Viking jewellery. On this course, you will use the technique ‘chasing and repoussé’ to make simple patterns on a band of copper, which you will later form into an arm cuff.

Gather by the fire for a session of hands-on history - handling artefacts, skins and braiding your own leather tooth necklace! This introduction to the Stone Age rocks!

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.

Learn an endangered craft deeply rooted to rural life, from one of the last remaining tutors in the country. Connected to the rhythms of the earth, corn dollies were also known as harvest tokens. A soothing and relaxing activity, this workshop is for those with some previous experience.

Learn how to craft a matching set of Viking weave jewellery in our Saxon Hall. Guided by expert Holly Berkley, craft a necklace and beaten spiral pendant, a bracelet, matching earrings and a beaten spiral ring.

Design and build you own copper table decoration. Begin with a small guided walk where you will forage for inspiring natural material. Nestled within the beauty of the South Downs National Park, you will then spend time translating your found inspiration and ideas into copper - resulting in a personal piece of art for your home.

Learn how to craft 5 ancient copper ring designs based on historic finds. Guided by expert Holly Berkley.

Ideal for children. Follow The Storyteller around our beautiful site hunting for clues to folklore stories of nature and hearing folklore stories about kindness and pride from around the world, finishing with making protective Saxon Amulet Beads to take home from natural ingredients.

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.

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.