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Butser Ancient Farm was founded in 1970 by the Council for British Archaeology: the driving force behind its foundation was the RCHME archaeologist Collin Bowen. [3] In 1972, they recruited experimental archaeologist Peter J. Reynolds (1939–2001) as director. [4]
Peter John Reynolds (11 June 1939 – 26 September 2001) was a British archaeologist known for his research in experimental archaeology and the British Iron Age.His work as the first director of Butser Ancient Farm, a working replica of an Iron Age farmstead in Hampshire, made a significant contribution to our understanding of the Iron Age, and to the field of experimental archaeology.
Park Law Iron Age settlement near Sourhope in the Borders, was the site of an agricultural settlement during the Iron Age. Nearby hillsides have prominent lynchets or cultivation rigs. Agriculture in prehistoric Scotland includes all forms of farm production in the modern boundaries of Scotland before the beginning of the early historic era.
Living in the Past was a 1978 BBC fly on the wall documentary programme. It followed a group of fifteen volunteers, six couples and three children, recreating a British Iron Age settlement, where they sustained themselves for a year, equipped only with the tools, crops and livestock that would have been available at that time.
The man is calculated (based on his arm span) to have stood approximately between 182 cm (5 ft 11.5 in) [2] and 198 cm (6 ft 6 in) tall, [3] which is considered to be exceptionally tall for the period when he lived. The man's apparently manicured nails led to speculation that he was not someone who engaged in manual labour, and possibly ...
Fields of Mistria was developed and published by NPC Studio, a Chicago-based independent video game developer. [9] [26] The team, which consists fans of farm life simulation games, was founded in 2019 and began working on the game the same year.
Must Farm is a Bronze Age archaeological site consisting of five houses raised on stilts above a river and built around 950 BC in Cambridgeshire, England. [1] The settlement is exceptionally well preserved because of its sudden destruction by catastrophic fire and subsequent collapse onto oxygen-depleted river silts .
In Norway, this term applies primarily to farms deserted due to the Black Death in 1349 and 1350. [1] [2] In many cases, the description of the farm as øde ('deserted') became part of the farm name for posterity when the farms came back into use again. [1]