Bronze Age Craft Weekend
Sat 11 Apr
|Ludham
Explore the Bronze Age on this two day workshop! You'll cast your own Bronze Age axe, carve a wooden handle, and work amber, jet and more to create bronze age jewellery!
Time & Location
11 Apr 2026, 10:00 – 12 Apr 2026, 16:00
Ludham, Ludham, Great Yarmouth NR29, UK
About
This is definitely a weekend for the crafters who love archaeology!
Over this two day workshop you’ll work with a wide variety of materials and try a selection of amazing crafts. We will also explore some of the amazing archaeology of the Bronze Age and how archaeologists know what we know!
You’ll work with James to cast a bronze axe head that can be cleaned and decorated. Using bronze tools, you’ll then carve and shape a wooden handle for your freshly cast axe head. Using rawhide, you will finish the axe by binding it tightly onto the handle. The group will also explore how tools were work hardened and even decorated.
In the other half of the weekend, you’ll work with Em to carve, shape and drill some of the valuable and exotic materials people coveted in the Bronze Age. Amber, shale, jet, tin and copper will be your raw…
Tickets
BA Craft Weekend Ticket
£275.00
VAT included
Total
£0.00