After a long break, work is now resuming on our Horton House construction. Here, Archaeologist Claire talks about creating a water-tight ridge using reed thatch.

Almost 450 heritage organisations in England, including Butser Ancient Farm have been awarded cash from the first round of the Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage.

Meon Valley MP Flick Drummond visited Butser Ancient Farm recently for a tour of our ancient buildings and landscape, alongside a discussion of the current challenges and opportunities we’re facing.

Sadly we are currently unable to continue with our Stone Age House build as a result of the site closure and government restrictions related to COVID-19. Instead for this weeks blog our Archaeologist Claire has turned her attentions to the historical and archaeological precedents of the extra-ordinary times we are living through…

This week our Archaeologist Claire talks about the porch design and construction of our Horton House.

This week on our Neolithic house project we have moved on to the wonderful task of daubing. Here Southampton University Student Mackenzie explains more…

Week 10 of our Horton House Neolithic project and the thatching, wattling and planking continues. Trevor Creighton reflects on the different building techniques we’re testing and the huge communal effort involved in the build so far.

Week 9 of our Neolithic House project and we’ve been working on our wattling skills!