Members of the Butser team regularly publish and present at national and international conferences regarding our experimental archaeology work. Below is a selection of recent work. It was also in 2006 that the 'Longbridge Deverell House' started to collapse, and prompted a programme of redevelopment of the constructions across the farm. A major re-assessment of the techniques of building was undertaken. It was decided to use the opportunity to examine the accumulated information of a further 20 years of excavation evidence. [ citation needed] The name Eggs to Apples comes from the Latin phrase Ab ovo usque ad mala, literally translated as “from egg to apples”, meaning from the start of the meal to the end. Eggs to Apples offers the feel of an outdoor market in a beautiful and environmentally focused indoor space. As Susannah Hewett, one of the shop’s owners puts it, “Eggs to Apples is the farm shop come of age. This is about the full basket shop and allowing our customers to buy everything they need to cook and eat fantastic food using high quality, affordable and where possible locally-sourced produce from within Kent and Sussex.” Elsewhere across the farm enclosure other students are learning to weave long, flexible poles into fencing.

July: Trevor Creighton. Butser Ancient Farm at 50: celebrating half a century of experimental archaeology. Current Archaeology issue 389, August 2022 Vegetables are sourced locally wherever possible and pumpkins are grown on the farm. There are lots of other treats in the shop too, including cheese, milk and ice cream, ham, preserves, apple and pear juice. They even sell knitting wool from their own sheep. Butser has also been featured in many other archaeological and historical documentaries including Mystic Britain, Digging for Britain and Britain’s Pompeii - A Village Lost in Time with Alice Roberts. Other considerations in experimental work on buildings can include variables such as the shape and pitch of roofing, thatching materials and techniques and the use of construction materials including wattle and daub, planking, turf and clunch.June 3rd.Trevor Creighton: Paper: Butser Ancient Farm: Bronze Age Roundhouse Collaborative Project 2021 .Iron Age Research Student Symposium 2021. Get hands-on and learn some ancient skills from everyday life in the past – available for free every open day! Discover how to turn sheep’s fleece into wool, learn to make prehistoric rope from plants, get arty and carve ancient designs into chalk, create beads and ornaments from clay, and much more. Suitable for all ages – get the whole family involved! Their logo reads, “meat for the connoisseur”, and they have plenty of it. They specialise in meat from traditional breeds, which are reared on the farm as naturally as possible to give the very best flavour. This includes lamb and mutton from Hebridean and Southdown sheep; beef from Sussex and Longhorn cattle; pork from traditional English breeds of pigs; and turkey from slow-grown, home-reared turkeys.

Claire Walton. Reimagining the Past: experiments in construction at Butser Ancient Farm ¸Current Archaeology issue 377, August 2021 More than 10,000 schoolchildren a year come to Butser for visits to their really old past. There are several areas for hands-on instruction in archaeology, including a forest of tree stumps and rough wooden mallets, for breaking white chalk into fine powder for whitewash. Kids really get into smashing that soft limestone.The butchery is run by Graham Smith, formally of High Street Fletching, who continues to prepare top quality meat, including the locally renowned Fletching Banger. As well as selling meat in the shop, they also supply the award-winning Griffin Inn in Fletching, The Hurstwood in High Hurstwood and the Lamb at Piltdown. May 10th: Trevor Creighton and Claire Walton, '( Re)constructing the Stone Age: Building a Neolithic house', at Experiencing Experimental Archaeology Conference, Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory, Lorsch Germany. Chains: These prevent the chained object from moving. The chained object must be matched or use a bonus item to remove the chain. Double chained items must have each chain removed separately.

This newly-opened shop is a member of the Guild of Fine Foods. They will focus on fresh, local and seasonal food based on the key principles of quality, traceability and affordability, while at the same time keeping up with global food trends. Among the range of meats, olives and cheeses, visitors to the shop should look out for products labelled with a wheelbarrow symbol, which were made on the farm using local ingredients. Don’t just read about history – experience it for yourself! Discover the closest thing we have to time travel and explore ancient buildings to see how normal people lived. Get curious: touch the thatch, try out the tools, smell the woodsmoke and more for a fully-immersive experience! Which house would you choose to live in? The largest of these is the Little Woodbury roundhouse with a diameter of 14.5m (48ft) and a 2 ring posthole construction. Estimated material quantities to build this house include 12t (12 long tons; 13 short tons) of oak for the frame and posts, 4t (3.9 long tons; 4.4 short tons) of Ash and Elder for the rafters, 7t (6.9 long tons; 7.7 short tons) of thatch, 1.5t (1.5 long tons; 1.7 short tons) of hazel for the wattle walls and 20t (20 long tons; 22 short tons) of daub. In 2021 Butser Ancient Farm launched a platform of documentaries about their experimental archaeology projects called Butser Plus. [14] See also [ edit ]

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The aim at Denniker Farm Shop is to provide top quality, individually sourced meat and other products from local suppliers wherever possible, including on the farm itself, where they produce as much free range pork and lamb as they can. Lives Remembered: Collin Bowen". Salon. Society of Antiquaries of London. 265. 14 February 2020 . Retrieved 17 March 2021. West Dean Stores sell high quality local produce and offer a lifeline to many local people. The shop also has a tearoom that sells reputedly delicious cakes.

Following the dismantling of the 'Longbridge Deverell House', the replacement is based on the excavations of the roundhouse at Little Woodbury in Wiltshire. Under the leadership of David Freeman, construction started in February 2007 and finished in December, having gone through one of the wettest summers on record. [ citation needed] A visitor centre was added in 2013. [6] Buildings [ edit ] Stone Age houses [ edit ] Butser Ancient Farm Bronze Age house built by military veterans". BBC News. 10 October 2021 . Retrieved 18 October 2021. At the center of the farm, the Great Roundhouse is based on an excavation made at Little Woodbury, near Salisbury, Wiltshire. There have been several great roundhouses at Butser, as over the years fresh discoveries are being made about their construction and maintenance. The Little Wood bury roundhouse was just completed last year. With a diameter of 49 feet, it encloses more than 1,700 square feet of floor space and supports a roof weighing more than 25 tons. Those Celts were no flimsy builders; such great houses were built to last 200 years. Get the whole family excited and involved with plenty of activities to interest everyone! Whatever your age and interests, there’s something here for you. Whether you want to have an epic adventure with hands-on activities, a children’s trail, and reenactor battles, or sit and relax by the fireside in a roundhouse and meet endangered goats, there’s plenty for you at Butser.

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If that weren’t enough there is also a range of cards, gifts and plants, with Christmas trees available in December, plus a coffee shop serving breakfasts, lunches and afternoon tea, a farm trail and children’s play area. The Butser Project: Building a Neolithic House | Our Work | Wessex Archaeology". www.wessexarch.co.uk . Retrieved 3 June 2021. Opened in 2001, Sharnfold Farm Shop has built a loyal customer base, who nominated it as the Sussex Food Shop of the Year at the 2016 Sussex Food and Drink Awards. There are two houses based on excavations from nearby Chalton Saxon Village. [7] Chalton A2 was constructed in 2017 and the house is primarily made of English oak, sweet chestnut and hazel, all sourced from local coppiced woodlands. The roof is panelled wattle hurdles into which the wheat straw thatch was laid using hazel spars to hold it in place. The timber beams were hand hewn and the posts earth fastened into the ground. No nails or screws were used apart from in the Har-hung doors, and the beams are fixed using dovetail joints secured with trunnels.