Services & Sales

LIVING HISTORY & DEMONSTRATIONS

Craft Description Comment
Price
Flintknapping presentation & demo

Primative techniques to demonstrate making a range of flint hand tools from pre-history.

Content varied to suit all ages from 7-8 through to adult.

Outdoor event or well ventilated room
Typically from £60 per half day (plus expenses)
Late Roman Army presentation

3rd - 5th Century British-Romano army life. Combat techniques and stories. Examples of weapons & armour displayed.

Content varied to suit all ages from 7-8 through to adult.

Can be in period costume if requested
Typically from £60 per half day (plus expenses)
Arrow Fletching
Prehistoric or Medieval fletching techniques to bind feathers to arrows
Indoor or outdoor event
Typically from £60 per half day (plus expenses)

 

WORKSHOPS

Craft Description Comment
Price
Flintknapping

Learn ancient techniques, using hard and soft hammers to make a range of flint hand tools from pre-history.

Individual tuition - Maximum group of 8 & suitable for ages from 14 through to adult (safety equipment provided).

Outdoor event or well ventilated room
Typically from £110 per day (plus expenses)
Atlatl

Assemble / decorate your own Atlatl and fletch your own dart. Then see how far can you launch the 1.5m dart using the Atlatl (world record is around 280m)

Individual tuition - Maximum group of 8 & suitable for ages from 10 through to adult.

Outdoor event (Large area)
Typically from £60 per half day (plus expenses)

 

ITEMS FOR SALE

Item
Description
Image
Price
Replica of Ötzi the Iceman's shoes

These shoes are based upon interpretation of the analysis from W. Groenman-van Waateringe). I have tried to use similar materials and style of construction, although this is not an except replica.

I can supply any size from (UK) 5 - 12 and also single shoes for display use. See Projects for construction process.

This would be ideal for a museum/heritage centre as a visitor handling exhibit, for prehistoric re-enactment, as part a private collection or even for a fancy dress occasion.

£60 pair (includes P&P to UK address)

 

(Price for single shoe is £35)

Replica of Ötzi the Iceman's flint knife and grass sheath.

The tool is approximately 18cm in total. The triangular flint blade is around 7cm x 4cm and is hearthed in a split wooden handle (14cm x 2cm). Natural cordage binds the wooden handle and a small loop completes the item.  

The sheath is approximately 22cm long and made from dried grass and plaited with natural cordage. It has a leather strap (25cm) for attaching to a belt, with 3 gray slate decorative beads


This would be ideal for a museum/heritage centre as a visitor handling exhibit, for prehistoric re-enactment, as part a private collection or even for a fancy dress occasion.

£25 (includes P&P to UK address)

 

(Price without sheath is £15)

Replica of a  Mesolithic toolkit (middle stone age from around 10,000 to 5,500 years ago)

Nine items including flint tranchet knife, flint blades, scrappers and microlith. Bone harpoon and bone needle, plus sinew thread. Periwinkle (Littorina littorea) shell necklace - as found in Mesolithic sites such as Oronsay.

This would be ideal for a museum/heritage centre as a visitor handling exhibit, for prehistoric re-enactment, as part a private collection or even for a fancy dress occasion.

£40 (includes P&P to UK address)
Fridge Magnet: Replica of Vogelherd Horse (from around 30,000 BCE)

The Vogelherd Horse is one the most famous of man’s earliest works of art from the Aurignacian period, being exceptionally accurately carved. It is generally thought to represent a stallion.

The horse was discovered by German archaeologist Gustav Riek in 1931, along with several other small sculptures, in the Vogelherd caves.

Unique handmade gift usingFIMO modelling clay and painted to represent ancient ivory (9cm x 4.5cm)

£5 (includes P&P to UK address)
Fridge Magnet: Replica of Vogelherd Mammoth (from around 30,000 BCE)

Found in 2006, the Vogelherd Mammoth is from the caves of the Swabian Alb and was carved with great detail with the use of stone artefact

Found as part of the systematic excavations at the site, lead by Tübingen archaeologist Nicholas J. Conard between 2005 and 2009.

Unique handmade gift usingFIMO modelling clay and painted to represent ancient ivory (6.5cm x 5cm)

£5 (includes P&P to UK address)
Prehistoric Venus figurines

Unique handmade gift using FIMO modelling clay and painted to represent original construction materials.

Venus of Hohle Fels - £8.00

Venus of Galgenburg - £7.00

Orkney "Wife" - £6.00

£6 - £8 (includes P&P to UK address)

I also sell on ebay - look out for my items through: jd_tyranus

Please email for further details - Commissions accepted

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