In April 2021, Phil Harding turned the first sod of earth to mark the start of a collaborative project between Butser Ancient Farm and Operation Nightingale to build a Bronze Age roundhouse.
Subscribe to Butser YouTube to catch the second episode later this week! 👍🏻
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Can archaeology improve mental health? 🧠⚡️
This week on Butser YouTube, Richard Osgood MBE, Senior Archaeologist for the Ministry of Defence, chats to Trevor about our plans for a Bronze Age house in collab with veterans from Operation Nightingale.
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It's time for another update from our fantastic group of volunteers, The Experimentalists! This week they're sharing progress on Butser's 'Little Hadrian' - the new flint wall being built behind our Roman villa.
Read more on the Butser blog: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/blog/2026/1/...
Good things are happening at Butser Plus!
03.02.2026 19:28 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Absolute quality 👏👏👏
24.01.2026 11:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Finally made it to see @merchantshallyork.org and it’s closed for a private function 😢 @romanpalace.bsky.social have a word please!
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We love a bit of breaking archaeological news here at the farm, so we were delighted to see the headlines about a rare Iron Age hoard unearthed in Thetford, Norfolk!
Check out the Butser blog this week to learn more about carnyces & why they are so rare: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/blog/2026/1/...
Last call for the best Christmas present ever... A workshop ticket or gift voucher to use in 2026! From bronze casting to basket weaving, flint knapping to deer butchery 🔥
Events & workshops: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/whats-on/cal...
Gift vouchers: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/gift-vouchers
Come and join our amazing team in an extraordinary place. There is truly no where like it!
20.12.2025 12:33 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0We have lots of cool workshops on next year, including my offering on Ancient Metallurgy!
18.12.2025 20:34 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Recently listened to it on Audible - loved it!
28.11.2025 17:41 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Yikes, planning is well underway for 2026!
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Ah, I kinda miss it!
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I really really want to build a pile dwelling @butserancientfarm.co.uk inspired by my recent visit to Museo delle Palafitte del Lago di Ledro, Italy and thinking about all the wonderful evidence from #MustFarm … 🤔🤔
03.11.2025 15:10 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1And we love tardigrades!!!!
02.11.2025 13:39 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That squishy face 😍😍😍
02.11.2025 10:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That is FANTASTIC!! 😍
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I got to get up close with #Otzi and his clothes and accoutrements today in #Bolzano #archaeology
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Loving these gladiatorial scenes at the Museo Archeologico al Teatro Romano #verona #MosaicMonday
27.10.2025 10:41 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Does Pawfessor Kenta have his own account??? 😉
17.10.2025 05:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh no!!!!
06.10.2025 18:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looks like heaven! Where is it?
29.09.2025 17:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Aw 😊
28.09.2025 13:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ha ha, I think you might be appearing in all sorts of contexts!
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A massive thank you to @chrischivers.bsky.social and Co were back in action to complete the cover for the glass furnace and it’s not just any old cover, “tis a thing of true brillance! #CuratorRob is probably going to want to move in 😬
04.09.2025 04:30 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1Massive vomit!
01.09.2025 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ha, indeed. In fact, hold our tray of pints!
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Two men in the process of building a wooden structure
The dream team got off to a cracking start!
27.08.2025 17:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1I was so sorry to hear this news. I had the great fortune to learn a great deal from himself and Susan as an undergraduate who was allowed to tag along with UCL postgraduate visits many moons ago. A lovely, interesting and generous man who will be missed 😢
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