Oaken hall where the barn owl flies

Chalton, Hampshire In the morning we find a carpet of shining black pellets brimming with skulls and rubbery tailsAt the highest and darkest point of the South Downs escarpment, an Anglo-Saxon hall stands beefy and lumbering under a black sky dusted with stars. Built with hand-hewn oak timbers and hazel spars, it is the latest addition to the educational farm on Butser Hill where I work as a creative developer, feeding goats and designing guide books. The farm is an outdoor archaeological labora