Paperback. white binding with black title and iron age hut on the front board.

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First edition hardback in the Colonnade Books series, 1979, with uncropped jacket. In overall near-fine used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage – dust jacket just a touch rubbed; boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. See Photographs.

Review: I had Thought when I ordered this book that it was a book on a 1970s Iron Age Living experiment and that it would cover trials and day-to-day living experiences (Another book I have, covers this in a later social experiment, with references to a 19 years earlier experiment that had involved parents of some of these latter folks) So I had thought this book was on that earlier 1 year long experiment. I was clearly mistaken. BUT,… tho I was disappointed in That respect,… the book itself is a well-done RESEARCH experiment,… alas, it only covers (in depth) Round-house building, Livestock the Iron-age folks would have had, and cultivation techniques. This is Not a bad thing, just not what I had expected to be reading. If I had ordered it expecting to learn these specific things, I would have given it more stars, but as a historical reenactor, I have no plans to build a 36 foot round house, nor grow wheat, nor raise livestock,… I am Much more interested in Iron Age clothing, crafts and food prep. But I shall keep it. It is Knowledge.

Butser Ancient Farm is an archaeological open-air museum and experimental archaeology site located near Petersfield in Hampshire, southern England. Butser features experimental reconstructions of prehistoric, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon buildings. Examples of Neolithic dwellings, Iron Age roundhouses, a Romano-British villa and an early Saxon house are on display. The site is used as both a tourist attraction and a site for the undertaking of experimental archaeology. In this latter capacity, it was designed so that archaeologists could learn more about the agricultural and domestic economy in Britain during the millennium that lasted from circa 400 BCE to 400 CE, in what was the Late British Iron Age and Romano-British periods.

Founded in 1970 by the Council for British Archaeology, in 1972 they recruited experimental archaeologist Peter J. Reynolds to run the site as project director. It was initially located on the site of a Bronze and Iron Age farmstead on Butser Hill, but in 1989 relocated to Hillscombe Down, and in 1991 to Bascombe Copse on the slopes of Windmill Hill.

The farm is open to the public and runs various events throughout the year. Archaeologist Mick Aston commented that “Virtually all the reconstruction drawings of Iron Age settlements now to be seen in books are based” on the work at Butser Farm, and that it “revolutionised the way in which the pre-Roman Iron Age economy was perceived”.