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Discover the sound of our ancestors and craft one of humanity’s oldest instruments. Guided by craftsman, musician, and living history practitioner Lewis Beck, learn to use steam-bent birch wood and ethically-sourced goat hide to create a 16-inch frame drum and beater using ancient techniques. Running each day this weekend.

Join our Experimental Archaeologists on a behind the scenes tour of Butser Ancient Farm. 

Journey between Stone Age and Anglo-Saxon periods via, Bronze Age and Iron Age roundhouses and our Roman Villa, as you learn about the evidence and techniques behind the construction of our experimental buildings, and what they can teach us about life in the ancient past. 

Celebrate with the Crannog community the ancient festival of love, fertility, and hope for the future. See the blossoming of the hawthorn and broom on the shores of Loch Tay and feel connected to fresh, new life blooming around us. Sing and honour the site, Bridgit, and Mother Earth and make a wish on a ribbon and tie it to a tree.

From fleece to yarn, and onto Nalbinding, making textiles with one big needle.

Craft yourself a cosy cloak to keep out the weather and catch everyone’s eye with some striking prehistoric style jewellery, based on archaeological finds from northern Europe.

What do experts read from prehistoric animal images about the relationship between humans and animals? This is revealed by museum director Ulrich Eberli on a public evening tour of the special exhibition.

ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ invites you to a session during the ICOM General Conference in Prague. We are in a unique position where our teaching of the past offers our visitors lessons for the future; we are more relevant than ever. How to develop the strength of open-air museums by building partnerships with other organisations?

Forging is from all ages. Even before the use of metal, there used to be a flint smith. Flint was used to make sharp objects, such as knifes, axes, and drawbars. Later, these type of objects were made of bronze and iron and steel.

The Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology is proud to announce that the 3rd Experimental Archaeology Student Symposium, will be hosted by the University of Liverpool in June 2022 in partnership with ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ.