Throughout the week, our team of intrepid artisans will draw on ancient techniques, traditional knowledge, and heritage craft skills to reconstruct a magnificent late Iron Age chariot, and enact an imagined ‘final journey’. An icon of prestige and sacred power in later prehistory, and which once also graced the chalk downlands, chariots were used in many contexts from wars to funerals, and this reconstruction draws upon rare archaeological discoveries found at sites such as Ferrybridge and Pocklington.

But what would an ancient burial ceremony have looked like? And what did it mean to the people that took part? Join our team of heritage crafts practitioners, living historians, archaeologists and musicians as we imagine an ancient chariot burial through procession, ceremony and music. Together, we will explore the potent ritual narratives enacted by our ancestors and the physical traces that they left behind.