Bronze Casting Workshop

A truly unique opportunity to experience Bronze Age metalworking in one of the most significant locations to the Bronze Age in the UK! Join experimental archaeologist, Dr James Dilley as he guides you through the process our ancestors perfected over 4000 years ago.

Participants will get the hands-on chance to prepare a mould, working the leather bellows and cast liquid bronze to produce a replica axe or dagger to take home!

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 early bronze age dagger. Students can then begin filing off the casting flash and start cleaning the surfaces of the dagger.

There will be short talk over lunch about the life and times of Bronze Age people in…