Get hands on with archaeology and discover the ancient past!
Activities free with your admission!
Normal entrance prices apply.
Explore 10,000 years of history at Butser Ancient Farm as we celebrate the Festival of Archaeology!
This week we’re exploring the theme of community in the ancient past. Our earliest ancestors worked together to create incredible feats like Stonehenge, but what did community look like in the Stone Age?
Stone Age tours with our archaeologist
Explore the Stone Age with hands-on tours from our archaeologist, as we explore the archaeology ancient communities left behind. Discover how early communities fostered cooperation, shared resources, and collectively built incredible monuments that long outlived them.
Contribute to our new Stone Age building!
We’re building a new Neolithic structure, and we think it might have been a shrine… Have a go using flint to carve a design or statue from chalk, and help us bring the building to life by adding your creation to our shrine. At the end of the week, your offerings will be used to create the walls and floor of the building!
See ancient metalworking
Leave the Stone Age behind and experience the technology that changed the world as we demonstrate ancient metalworking on Wednesday 24th.
The Festival of Archaeology is run each year by the Council for British Archaeology. This year’s theme is Archaeology and Community.
Annual Passholders get free admission to the farm any day we’re open for general admission — you only need to visit twice before you’re quid’s in! Learn more.
DOGS: Please feel free to bring your dogs with you! We just ask that they are well-behaved and kept on leads at all times.
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.