It’s been one year since we won the prestigious Sandford Award! 🔥🏺🐐 This is the ultimate gold star in heritage education, recognising heritage sites that deliver outstanding learning experiences. One year on, we are still so proud of our team! Read more: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/blog/2025/11...

Just a handful of tickets left for our next Home Education Day at the farm! Get hands on with a special day of fun and educational activities - bringing history to life for children of all ages. 📍 Wednesday 10th December ⌛ 10am - 2pm www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/.../home-edu....

Today, @butserancientfarm.co.uk Dave, Oli and I have been continuing with developing the compost bay, with integrated potting area. Still a make do, scrounge, or create materials project. Next week we'll have to cut more timber. Dave and Immy repurposed the bench and shelf...🤷‍♂️

We have the very best volunteers! 🥰

@butserancientfarm.co.uk has been book Festivalling like only Butser Ancient Farm can. 😍🤩

This is why we let @experimentalkearns.bsky.social go on holiday! 👇👇👇 #experimentalarchaeology

Tune in on Tuesday 4 Nov 9pm on More4 !! 👇👇 #HiddenWonders with #SandiToksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When the @romanpalace.bsky.social call, we respond immediately! This promises to be a really interesting day!

It’s #InternationalArchaeologyDay and we’re celebrating #experimentalarchaeology and the wonderful collaborations we have @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @durhamuniversity.bsky.social @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @romanpalace.bsky.social

Ha ha! But who won???

📣 '...Archaeologists baffled & shocked' by #MosaicMonday... As evidenced by further first-class musing 🤔 & pointing 👇at @butserancientfarm.co.uk by @theduncanmackay.bsky.social & @durotrigesdig.bsky.social - inside the incredible recreated Roman villa 🤯😮

Happy #WorldTeachersDay! We’re celebrating our amazing education team - passionate, creative, and committed people who, rain or shine, inspire over 30,000 school children every year. You are the beating heart of Butser - thank you for all that you do!

I'm going to be @butserancientfarm.co.uk for #butserbookfest on Sat 18 and Sun 19 October. On Sun 19, I'll be talking about writing fantasy and creating ancient worlds - in the house in chapter two of A Sword of Gold and Ruin. #fantasy #fantasybooks #epicfantasy #folklore #historicalfantasy

Gorgeous photo! They’re like two different worlds in so many ways! We feel it even more when we light our hypocaust and you leave a smoky roundhouse and arrive in a room with a warm mosaic floor and invisible heat! #hypocaust

We’ve been away for a bit… but we’re back on Bluesky! What have we missed? One thing you won’t want to miss 👉 #ButserBookFest, 18th & 19th Oct! Two days of amazing people, talks & activities. More info: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/butser-liter... #Books #Hampshire #LiteraryFestival

It's the full moon! The June moon is commonly known as the Strawberry moon after Native American traditions, but English names may have included Flower Moon or Hay Moon from the Anglo-Saxons, or Mead Moon or Horse Moon from the Celts. Possibly -- it's hard to find sources for a lot of moon names!

Dads and father figures go FREE this weekend at Butser! Join us as we mark Father's Day weekend with Roman reenactments, living history demonstrations, combat displays, and more all weekend ⚔️ See what's on and get your tickets at buff.ly/iPN9Bx1

It's the last day of #VolunteersWeek, and we're looking back at some of the amazing projects our volunteers have completed since last year's celebration! From archaeological experiments to major fundraising festivals, everything we do at Butser is supported by our incredible volunteers 💚

🔥 Discover metalworking through the ages this weekend! Demos, talks, and more from some of Europe's leading historical metalworkers and experts, all included in our regular entrance price. buff.ly/OnvT9DL See the full programme ⬇️

Want to see a giant wicker gladiator burning @butserancientfarm.co.uk for Beltain? Course you do

First #beltain celebration @butserancientfarm.co.uk last night. The most incredible wickerman, in full flames in less than 5 minutes. An amazingly joyful evening 🔥

Happy Beltain / Beltane / Beltaine everyone Now it's officially summer! @butserancientfarm.co.uk #ButserBeltain

The end to a great Beltane celebration at @butserancientfarm.co.uk #Beltane #beltaine #storyteller #storytelling #pagan

Saying g'day the Iron Age way Utter carnyx @butserancientfarm.co.uk Brilliant 😊 #ButserBeltain

The climax of the #Beltain festival @butserancientfarm.co.uk with the burning of the Roman gladiator. 1000 hours of team work, burnt in less than 30 minutes. A long day, enjoyed by all.

Beltain at @butserancientfarm.co.uk remains a highlight of our family’s witchy year! Chomp is old enough now to start to ‘get it’ and it’s really wonderful to watch

Wonderful day yesterday @butserancientfarm.co.uk for Beltaine. #Butser #Beltane #Beltaine #Wickerman #Pagan #PaganFestival #Firefestival

Happy #Beltain everyone! We had a fantastic time at @butserancientfarm.co.uk as always🔥 #Beltane #MayDay

A great night celebrating Beltain at @butserancientfarm.co.uk last night #butserbeltain

Beltain celebrations @butserancientfarm.co.uk

What a night! Thank you so much to everyone who joined us for Beltain Celtic Fire Festival 2025, we hope you had a brilliant time! We love sharing this special night with you once a year, and welcoming in the summer with a magical night🔥 More pics coming soon! #butserbeltain

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Just another average evening in #Hampshire Slipping back into the Iron Age @butserancientfarm.co.uk [sound on] #Carnyx #Celts #Drumming #ButserBeltain

Butser Beltain begins!! Looks like there may be a carnyx or two 🤞 @butserancientfarm.co.uk #DurotrigesRoadTrip

What a look! 🔥🔥

Resale tickets are now sold out! We hope you have a wonderful Beltain however you're celebrating 🔥

🔥 Last chance for Beltain tickets midday today! 🔥 Grab tickets to Beltain Celtic Fire Festival this Saturday with our resale, going live at midday today. We have an extremely limited number of tickets available so get yours while you can! More about Beltain & tickets here: buff.ly/Eivi9oK

Brand new badge for the campfire blanket, and it's a bit of a special one @butserancientfarm.co.uk #TheScouts

For me, the day @butserancientfarm.co.uk ended with a mixture of learning to cleave the wooden logs into palisade fence posts, intermingled with mattocking soil in a proposed Saxon vegetable plot. Always varied as a volunteer; inevitable green gym...👍👍💪💪

A particular feature of Wyke Down, @butserancientfarm.co.uk is the plaster work by Jason, seeking to mirror the originals, derived from evidence from pot decoration.

The afternoon @butserancientfarm.co.uk started with a celebratory opening of Wyke Down neolithic house, with work teams and archaeologists in attendance.

If you've visited recently and thought 'gosh those are some beautiful fences' (or is that just the kind of thing we think? Don't answer that) -- they're the handiwork of our wonderful volunteers like Chris! And with that we've officially replaced the last bit of modern fencing on site 💪

A reconstructed Anglo-Saxon hall house in Butser Ancient Farm, which is an experimental archaeological site. It’s a substantial, high status structure, based on examples excavated in England ⁦‬⁩ #anglosaxon ##saxonhall #ancienthouse #medieval #butserfarm @butserancientfarm.co.uk

Inside Butser Ancient Farm’s enormous Little Woodbury Iron Age round house. It’s based on one excavated near Salisbury in the 1920s. It’s an astounding 50 feet in diameter and 30 feet high. #ironage #butserancientfarm @butserancientfarm.co.uk

Possibly the strangest sheep I have ever seen. He’s amazing 🤩 it’s a Manx Loaghtan sheep which is categorised at ‘at risk’ by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust. He lives at Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire @butserancientfarm.co.uk #raresheep

Butser Ancient Farm’s ‬⁩Iron Age village, with houses based on buildings from archaeological sites, such as Danbury Hillfort. An experimental archaeological site, it explores the ways in which these buildings were constructed and occupied #ironage #butserancientfarm @butserancientfarm.co.uk

Spending a day back in time at @butserancientfarm.co.uk in Hampshire. An experimental archaeological site with reconstructed buildings from Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman &Anglo-Saxon period. I used to analyse their soil samples when I was at Cambridge #butserancientfarm #ironage #neolithic

We've done it again, folks! Welcome to Wyke Down, our newest building here at Butser: a reconstructed Stone Age structure that is quite possibly the most special thing we've ever built. Read all about our new building technique, the 5,000 year old evidence, & a huge new discovery ➡️ buff.ly/p0VgtUV

Wednesday workout @butserancientfarm.co.uk. Arrived to find a few more lambs had been born. One rejected, so being hand reared. Work on the huegel plant beds, raised beds with a core of timber, straw, wool and soils (pig manured soil and top soil). Ollie finishing the wool layer on the third bed.

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 We're officially swapping flint axes for chainsaws, and will no longer be using authentic tools and materials to make our historic buildings. It's just so much cheaper and easier! And who cares about historical accuracy these days?