Butser Ancient Farm Project Archive 1972-2007
Peter Reynolds, Christine Shaw, Roger Hedge, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5284/1039935. How to cite using this DOI
Data copyright © Christine Shaw, Roger Hedge unless otherwise stated
This work is licensed under the ADS Terms of Use and Access.
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Christine
Shaw
Manor Farm
Butterfield Green Road
Stopsley
Luton
LU2 8DE
England
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- ADS Collection: 1874
- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1039935
- How to cite using this DOI
Introduction
The various sites that Butser Ancient Farm occupied over the years were all, in one way or another, based on the concept of demonstrating what a farm, which would have existed in the British Iron Age circa 300 BC, might have been like. It was founded in 1972 as the Butser Ancient Farm Project and occupied sites on Little Butser Hill, Hampshire UK, the so-called Demonstration Site in the grounds of Queen Elizabeth Country Park, Hampshire and finally it moved to its present site at Bascomb Down in 1991. The work was extended to include the construction of a Roman Villa in 2002.
Peter Reynolds interpreted existing archaeological information and, through experiment, evolved buildings and structures, and introduced crop types and management methods of the kind deduced to exist at that time. He evolved what was essentially a large open air laboratory where research into the Iron Age and Romano-British periods went on, using the methods and materials which were available at that time, while applying modern science to ancient problems.
The dataset consists of the image collection and video material created by Dr Peter J Reynolds and Christine Shaw, and also the data from the Experimental Earthworks Project.
The Archive of the Butser Ancient Farm Project can be accessed at www.butser.org.uk
