Bronze Age

Program 10:00h - 17:00h

OPERATION OF A GLASS FURNACE
Experience of the behavior of molten glass in a previously prepared oven.

EXPERIMENTING WITH PIGMENTS AND AGLUTINANTS
Experience based on the elaboration of different pigments (iron oxides) mixed with different binders and subjected to different temperatures.

Tablet weaving is an ancient weaving technique, in which the rotation of tablets, applied in the warp, creating the shed where the weft passes, produce the weave. Historically, it was applied to produce accessories for garment, like belts, or as decoration in garments itself. In this workshop you will be able to produce your own tablets and create patterns.

National Days of Archaeology
Two days of experimental archaeology with bronze casters and archaeologists to discover the know-how of the Bronze Age craftspeople from 3,500 years ago.

Bronze casting at night on Saturday around 22h
Free entry

Free Talk: Bronze & Iron Age Textiles within the Home

Thursday 19 July (Doors open 19.30 / Talk starts 20.00)
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Join us for the third in our summer series of talks at Butser Ancient Farm.

Free Talk: People of the Heath with Stuart Needham

Thursday 17 May (Doors open 19.30 / Talk starts 20.00)
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Join us for the first in our summer series of talks at Butser Ancient Farm.

The time has come again for us to offer activities and presentations from the Middle Stone Age to the 1st post-Christian Century: make glass beads yourself, look over the blacksmith's shoulder or with the wool dyer in their cauldron with plant brews. Be there when iron is formed, you will learn everything about food preparation from hunting to the preparation of dishes.

Uniquely in northern Germany, you can experience an excursion in a prehistoric watercraft, the dugout canoe. The certified nature and landscape guide Andrea Menzel takes you into the colourful diversity of the floodplain landscape. Equipped with binoculars, life vests and paddles, the excursion participants glide silently over Hitzacker Lake.

Historic crafts from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages are brought to life by specialists in the beautiful setting of the Open Air Museum Düppel in Berlin. Be it flint knapping techniques of the early hunter gatherers or traditional methods of tanning hides – there should be something for everyone. Activities for children invite to explore and all questions are welcome!

Ever since prehistory goods and knowledge were exchanged all across of Europe. Boats like logboats were used to travel to the other shore of lake Constance or even as far as the North Sea or the Black Sea following the rivers. Try the tools they used to build these important means of transportation!