FAMILIES came together to learn more about the landscape at Greystones Farm in Bourton-on-the-Water from prehistoric times to modern day.

The family discovery day called 'Love my Landscape' took place on Saturday, June 25 the Gloucester Wildlife Trust site of Greystones Farm.

Around 100 people of all ages came together and found out about the Late Iron Age town of Salmonsbury, which lies under the pasture land and Sites of Special Scientific Interest. 

The town is only visible today by the lumps and bumps of the perimeter ditch and bank earthworks.

Just as in the Iron Age when people would have been farming the land, Greystones is a farm today. 

Today, the farm makes use of modern technology, such as the robot milking machine, to help with tasks.

Visitors also got to try Iron Age cooking, make Iron Age pots, handle prehistoric objects, explore the wildlife, whittle tools, make mini-roundhouses and have a go at taking soil cores to see the story of the landscape.

The event was organised by Durham University’s REFIT project team, which is working with communities at four sites across Europe who live and work in landscapes containing Late Iron Age towns (known as oppida).

The project hopes to find out what these landscapes mean to people and how all the factors that make up these landscapes, from modern farming to archaeology, can be best managed for the future.

To find out more, you can follow the REFIT project on Twitter @_REFIT or check out their website www.refitproject.org.