Year 3 boys went on an incredible trip to Butser Ancient Farm. Butser is an experimental archaeological museum. We were immersed in the Stone Age from the minute we arrived. We sat around a fire on animal hides in a Stone Age roundhouse and examined the materials that had been used to build it. We learnt so many interesting facts. Did you know that they have experimented with how long meat could have lasted without a refrigerator by smoking it and wrapping it in cloth? So far, it has lasted an incredible two years!
We got to handle some artefacts that they would have used for tools and clothes in the Stone Age. We loved handling the flint and, in particular, the axe. In the afternoon, we had a go at ‘clunching’. We had to hit and grind chalk with a mallet made from holly wood. Then we mixed this with straw, soil, and water and helped to build a replica Stone Age wall. We were also lucky enough to have a go at making our own clay pots just as the people of the Neolithic period may have done. It was a phenomenal day out and we learnt so much.