Raising a Roundhouse without Power Tools | Rebuilding the Bronze Age - Part 2

During the second session of our Operation Nightingale project in 2021, the first two days were spent preparing the timber posts that would form the uprights to support the roof of our building. Treewright Darren Hammerton was on hand to teach Operation Nightingale team members the timber working skills required to fashion oak trunks into structural posts. A treewright is essentially a carpenter who works with traditional building tools, such as axes, chisels and augers, to dress and create joints in wood. In the space of these two days, all nine structural posts were prepared, ready to be inserted into the postholes dug during our previous session. ▬ 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