Who Was the Amesbury Archer? with Richard Osgood MBE

In our latest Roundhouse Chat, Richard Osgood MBE, Senior Archaeologist for the Ministry of Defence, chats to Butser archaeologist Thérèse Kearns about the Amesbury Archer, an early Bronze Age man who inspired our wickerman design for Beltain 2026. The grave of the Amesbury Archer was excavated by a team from Wessex Archaeology (‪@archaeologists‬) in 2002, three miles from Stonehenge. All images kindly provided © Wessex Archaeology. For more information about the excavations and other Wessex Archaeology discoveries and research, visit their website: www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/amesbury-archer ▬ About Us ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Butser Ancient Farm is an open-air experimental archaeology museum and active research centre, learning about the past by recreating it. Our experiments are world-renowned, and our buildings include a Roman villa, Celtic village, Stone Age farm and Saxon halls — all reconstructed from real UK archaeology, and open to be explored! We do everything we can do share our passion for the past, from visitor opening and school groups to filming our experiments for bitesize documentaries. ▬ Support Us ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Thanks to our supporters, we can continue to explore the cutting-edge of experimental archaeology, expand our understanding of the distant past, and pass our passion for archaeology onto the next generation. Visit www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/butserplus to learn more! ▬ Find Us Elsewhere! ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Facebook: / butserancientfarm ► Bluesky: / butserancientfarm.co.uk ► Instagram: / butserancientfarm ► Website: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk #asmr #accidentalasmr #archaeology #experimentalarchaeology #petersfield