Mooch - Butser Ancient Farm

Butser Ancient Farm is a great educational and experimental archaeological site. It is located in Hampshire just off the A3 about 5 miles south of Petersfield. There are several building reconstructions representing the late British Iron Age and Romano-British periods.

Mooch has visited Butser a couple of times. (25-Jun-2010 / 08-May-2012)
These are some of the reconstructed Iron Age round houses.
Mooch monkey at Butser Ancient Farm - Iron Age buildings

Mooch monkey at Butser Ancient Farm - Iron Age buildings

Some of the round houses are adorned with horse or goat skulls,
which seemed to have had some significance to the Iron Age Celtic people.
Mooch monkey at Butser Ancient Farm - horse skull on Iron Age buildings

Mooch monkey at Butser Ancient Farm - horse skull on Iron Age buildings

The inside of the houses seem empty and spacious, but the originals were probably very busy
with cooking, weaving cloth, living and sleeping.
Mooch monkey at Butser Ancient Farm - inside an Iron Age building

Mooch monkey at Butser Ancient Farm - inside an Iron Age building

Mooch monkey at Butser Ancient Farm - bed inside an Iron Age building

Some of the buildings are big and some are small: Mooch monkey at Butser Ancient Farm - a large Iron Age building

and some have special uses - on the right is the toilet, the schoolkids favourite building!
Mooch monkey at Butser Ancient Farm - a small Iron Age building

Mooch monkey at Butser Ancient Farm - a small Iron Age building

Mooch monkey at Butser Ancient Farm - an Iron Age toilet