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!

Week 8 of our Stone Age house project and we’ve been welcoming staff from Wessex Archaeology to help with wattling and coppicing.

Week 7 and we’ve been doing some calculations and reflecting on the huge team effort and resource requirements of building a Stone Age house like this!