Eddie Butterfield, a Dorset blacksmith and craftsman, has for many years specialised in the restoration of ancient and historic ironwork.

His work is well known to heritage and ecclesiastical bodies who value his craftsmanship, knowledge and high standards of authenticity.

 

 

 

   
His interest in our cultural and rural heritage extends to the research and conservation of craft skills (which are fast disappearing elsewhere) and the preservation of rural bygones, so he has extended his remarkable abilities to the careful restoration and painstaking replication of traditional Shepherd’s huts.