Early Middle Ages

Discover blacksmithing through the ages! Join us for a weekend of metalworking in action, and explore this craft from its invention right up to the modern era as Butser Ancient Farm is taken over by over 50 blacksmiths!

The theme of this year's Fest

Wednesday 16th August 2023
This Open Day will be led by our volunteers and give a chance to see how they have helped to develop our site. There will be heritage skills demonstrations and have a go, site tours, tea and coffee in the longhouse and a storyteller in the Earthouse.

Join me for a relaxing day of painting and learning about the weird and wonderful world of mediaeval manuscripts

Using authentic materials you'll learn how to put quill to parchment and create your own manuscript. The workshop is from 10am to 4pm and will cover the following:

This year, the Open Monuments Weekend is entirely devoted to the Caesar festivities. The festivals that are only organized once every 25 years, in Velzeke! They go back to the origins of Belgium. Historical figures were - literally and figuratively - placed on a pedestal. In 1873 Velzeke unpacks with a suit of armor in honor of Julius Caesar.

The Programme Committee of the International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology welcomes submissions of papers and posters for the ISBSA 17, organized as a collaborative effort of the University L’Orientale of Naples, ISMEO-The International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies and the National Superintendency for the Underwater Cultural Heritage.

Lectures and workshops of the Summer School explore the main core themes:

On Saturday 17th we will do a series of activities at the site:

6 pm - Anthropology Workshop Led by Dra. Antònia Diaz Carvajal (Anthropologist) - Historical recreation Textile production in the Middle Ages Medieval games In charge of the Viking Mediterranean Cultural Group