Iron Age

Discover the correct and safe way to use the most essential of the treewright's tools: the axe.

For the fourth consecutive year, our Festival of Archeology is back

Create a sitting or moon gazing hare, an animal steeped in mystery and storytelling and a lovely addition to your home or garden. Students will learn a variety of techniques including a variety of basketry techniques and freeform weaving. 

The workshop is suitable for anyone who is new to willow sculpture as well as those with little experience.

An action-packed weekend as Anglo-Saxon group Herigeas Hundas  defend the magnificent Butser Saxon Halls from the marauding Vikings of Wuffa.

This weekend we will be joined by members of  Colchester historical re enactment society or CHES for short.

This group endeaver to bring the ways of the Anglo Saxon era to life and will be showing tablet weaving, loom weaving, spinning, dying and wool production in and around our Saxon Halls.

Join us to discover behind the scenes on our latest Bronze Age roundhouse construction. At 2pm we’ll be giving an outdoor tour of the build site, discussing our progress so far and the lessons we’ve learned as we bring the Bronze Age to Butser. 

In this workshop, ceramic vessels will be made using techniques and shapes from the pre-Roman Iron Age. Only a few 100 meters away from the island of time, evidence of ceramic production from the 8th century B.C. and the turn of the era discovered. These local original finds form the starting point for a practical understanding of the entire process from clay preparation, the fre

Handspin yarn and weave it into a community-made piece of fabric on an ancient style loom.

Hand spin yarn and weave it into a community-made piece of fabric on an ancient style loom.

Use ore, charcoal and fire to make new iron!