Bronze Sword Casting Workshop
Fri 13 Oct
|Chichester
Join Dr. Dilley for a day all about Bronze Age Swords! You'll have the chance to cast your own replica sword at the Weald and Downland, home of the BBC's Repair Shop!
Time & Location
13 Oct 2023, 10:00 – 16:00
Chichester, Town Ln, Chichester PO18 0EU, UK
About
The Course
The first swords in Europe were made of bronze. They are an iconic development in the human story as social pressure led to tension between groups and individuals. Swords were as much a tool of fighting as they were status symbols. During the workshop, participants can make either the earliest type of sword in Britain: a rapier, or one the two late sword types in Britain and Europe: the Ewart Park style leaf sword, or the Naue II.
Workshop students 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 bronze age sword 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 sword.
The Tutor
Dr James…