Butser Iron Age Farm
Friday 10th October
Boys in 3B took part in another of the regular visits by the Classics and History departments to the Butser Iron Age Farm and Roman Villa project. This time, after getting the feel of the Celtic lifestyle inside a smoky Iron Age Roundhouse, they were set to work wattling a fence, and got close to nature with mixing up the ingredients for mud-brick construction. Then they were able to design and make some authentic Celtic copper ‘bling’ jewellery; and the afternoon was spent touring the reconstruction of a Roman Villa with its fresco portraits, hypocaust system and mosaics. Here they were able to appreciate the different ideas of the ‘good life’ that the Romans brought over, as well as trying their hand at some ‘secco’ tile-painting techniques. Which type of lifestyle do you think they decided they’d have preferred?
