get in your time machine and discover how you’d get on in the ancient past!
Free with your admission
Normal entrance prices apply.
Go on a time-travelling adventure at Butser this summer! Can you find all five secret symbols scattered through time?
Report for duty as a time traveller to collect your Time Passport and start your adventure… Fill out your passport as you learn ancient skills, explore the past, and go digging for archaeology to put your knowledge to the test. You might even win a prize…
Free activities every day!
Get hands-on and learn eight new skills over the summer in free hands-on workshops for kids and adults alike.
Every day: Go digging for archaeology 📿
Mondays: Create chalk art using flint 🎨
Tuesdays: Make an ancient sun disk pendant ☀️
Wednesdays: Learn to spin wool 🧶
Thursdays: Weave willow stars ✨
Fridays: Learn to braid the Viking way 🪢
Saturdays: Have-a-go pottery 🏺
Sundays: Make ancient rope from grass 🌾
Summer of savings
All time-travelling activities are included in your admission, so there are no hidden charges or surprise extra spends on the day. Get a family ticket from under £30, or become an annual passholder with our special 20% OFF summer discount, and enjoy free days out all year!*
Win a free family ticket!
Complete your passport with every skill for the chance to win a FREE family ticket for our festive Midwinter Quest in December! Learn the skills at Butser, or have a go at home as we post instructions during the summer. See how to enter the prize draw 🡒
*Annual Passholders get free admission to the farm any day we’re open for general admission — with our summer discount, a pass is cheaper than two trips! Learn more.
DOGS: Please feel free to bring your dogs with you!
REFUNDS: If we aren’t able to open the farm on the day of your visit, you will of course be completely refunded. Unfortunately in any other circumstances we aren’t able to offer refunds.
COVID-19: We’re still being careful, and will follow the government advice at the time. We’re a mostly-outdoors site, and encourage people to mask indoors if it makes them more comfortable. If you have any symptoms of COVID-19 or have been asked to self-isolate when you’re due to visit, please stay at home and take care of yourself.