BUTSER Ancient Farm will open seven days a week from the Easter weekend and to celebrate there’s lots to explore and discover at the Chalton site.

The farm currently has 17 baby lambs and six baby goats frolicking around the roundhouses – the kids are quite the escape artists so there’s never a dull moment keeping an eye on the new arrivals.

Over the weekend Hampshire-based Anglo Saxon re-enactment group Herigeas Hundas will be greeting the spring and making the farm their home with demonstrations including traditional crafts, cooking and fighting. The group will be showing visitors what life would have been like in fifth to seventh century Hampshire with the backdrop of the farm’s Saxon Long Hall.

Families can get a further taste for Saxon life by following the farm’s spring trail to find and translate Saxon runes and reveal a secret message.

Each day of the holidays there’s also the chance to get hands on with some DIY archaeology experiments, from making mosaics to Stone Age painting, and to learn more about the farm and archaeology with ten-minute talks. On Wednesdays visitors can learn the art of felting and create something to take home.