Iron Age

Over the past 50 years Butser Ancient Farm has gone through many changes, not least in its physical location in the beautiful South Downs National Park. 

You’re all invited to join us at Bryn Eryr, our Iron Age farmstead at St Fagans, for a day of family friendly activities.

We’ll be demonstrating how people in the Iron Age made their pots, firing them in pit at Bryn Eryr and unveiling our work at the end of the day. And you can make your own pot using methods from the Bronze and Iron Age to take home with you! 

The seminar brings to life a wide variety of hunting methods from prehistory. The participants deal with various hunting devices, e.g. B. the spear and slingshot, the bola-bola and the longbow. All hunting weapons can be tried out on the grounds of the Archaeological Open-Air Museum. The range and target accuracy of the individual devices can be compared with one another.

Learn techniques to hand-stitch a garment together using traditional tools like bone needles.

This week various bow makers are guests in the museum and show all their skills in the production of different bows.

The scientific conference Methodology and Archaeometry is being organised by the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb since 2013. The goal of the conference is to entice interdisciplinary, critical thinking, new insights and approaches as well as new theoretical frameworks in contemporary archaeological science.

SATURDAY JUNE 18TH - OPEN DAY IN THE IBERIAN CITADEL

A stay in our museum is not only a nice time during the walk, but also a large dose of knowledge. Costumes, food, everyday items, residential buildings. See for yourself how man has developed over the millennia.

Get to know the archeology of Drenthe! On Sunday 19 June, the Dolmen Center will be devoted to archeology during the National Archeology Days.

Thinking about Archaeology as a development motor of a region through tourism is a challenge that the scientific community is currently facing.