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Bronze Axe Casting Workshop

Wed 22 Jun

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Llandudno

Cast your own replica Bronze Age palstave axe in the surroundings of the 4000 year old Great Orme copper mine!

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Bronze Axe Casting Workshop
Bronze Axe Casting Workshop

Time & Location

22 Jun 2022, 10:00 – 16:00 BST

Llandudno, Great Orme, Llandudno LL30 2XG, UK

About

A truly unique opportunity to experience Bronze Age metalworking in one of its most most locations. This workshop is led by experimental archaeologist Dr James Dilley of AncientCraft.

Following a safety briefing, workshop attendees will prepare their own mould, before working the leather bellows on the charcoal fuelled furnace to melt copper and tin. They will then cast the liquid metal into their prepared moulds to produce a replica middle bronze age palstave axe to take home at the end of the day. Students can then begin filing off the casting flash and start cleaning the surfaces of the axe.

There will be short talk over lunch about the life and times of Bronze Age people in Europe. It will cover our current understanding of technology in the Bronze Age and how it is reflected in archaeology. It will be an informal talk with lots of scope for open discussion.

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    £120.00

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