Our Adult team-building days are unique in their content and setting.
Choose one of our tailor-made days or get in touch to see how we can cater to your needs.
Our Earthouse can seat over 200 people and we have a projector to fulfil any presentations you may wish to use our site for.
We have a replica Viking Longhouse which has a fully equipped kitchen, Wi-Fi and electric points and space for approximately 20 adults to stay the night.
We can cater for your day at an additional fee for lunch, dinner or both. Some of the team building days have communal meal preparation of a historic meal as part of the experience.
Your could combine your day with your own training and our bespoke heritage courses or simply hire our site to use.
Get in touch to ask about one of the days below or to discuss your requirements.
adult historic skills days at the Ancient Technology Centre
Bushcraft Experience
Heritage Building Conservation
Heritage Building Conservation
Our tutors have historic bush-craft skills and will run days based on your choices from the following activities:
- fire lighting techniques
- shelter building
- cooking over a fire (fish, pigeon, deer or rabbit each with a different cost)
- moving a stone monolith as a team
- Archery with a longbow
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Heritage Building Conservation
Heritage Building Conservation
Heritage Building Conservation
Join our team of tutors and volunteers in helping to build or conserve our replica buildings. Your day will include some of the following historic skills:
- Making wattle and daub panels.
- Using earth pigments to make paints and painting on walls.
- Making cob for walling and bricks.
- Constructing wooden buildings
Historic Craft Experience
Heritage Building Conservation
Historic Craft Experience
At the Ancient Technology Centre we pride ourselves in our preservation of heritage crafts through our community of tutors, volunteers and craftspeople.
Make your own bespoke day of heritage crafts from the following list:
willow weaving, arrow making, bow making, tablet weaving, nalbinding, blacksmithing, rope making, spoon carving, felt making, tanning, flint-knapping or making cob bricks.
Historic Experience
Heritage Woodland Experience
Historic Craft Experience
At the Ancient Technology Centre we run days from the Stone Age to Viking Age.
Choose a time period to focus on and we will put together a unique experience for your colleagues. The day will focus around historic jobs on site and also preparing food for communal meals at lunch and dinnertime.
We will also have historic skills such as archery or moving a monolith to choose from.
Heritage Woodland Experience
Heritage Woodland Experience
Heritage Woodland Experience
We use wood for just about everything we do on site. In our historic buildings and the fencing around site we use coppiced hazel from the local Sixpenny Handley RSPB woodland.
Work with wood at our centre and choose from the following options:
coppicing using billhooks, weaving a hazel fence, traditional hedge-laying, using froes and other wood tools, pole lathing.
Seasonal September-March.
Historic Combat Experience
Heritage Woodland Experience
Heritage Woodland Experience
At the Ancient Technology Centre we have combat experts who can guide you through warfare from the Stone Age to Medieval times.
The activities will include:
- Archery with a longbow
- Long sword training
- Viking shield wall training
COSTS
Prices correct as of 2024
The Price of your ATC visit will depend on how many tutors are required to teach your sessions. The price is £512 plus VAT for 2 ATC tutors and more can be negotiated.
To hire the site for your own day's events there is a site hire charge of £851 +VAT a day.
Catering costs are per head and dependant upon lunch, dinner and a light breakfast the next morning if staying overnight.
Please get in touch to discuss your requirements.
