Jet Jewellery Workshop
Sun, 10 Aug
|Ludham
Create your own Bronze Age jewellery using a range of techniques that would have been available to makers over 5000 years ago!
Time & Location
10 Aug 2025, 10:00 – 16:00
Ludham, Ludham, Great Yarmouth NR29, UK
About
The Course
Find out how people in the Bronze Age used jet and jet-like materials to create a range of personal ornamentation, from bangles, buttons, belt rings, beads and pendants! Which artefact will you choose to replicate?
Our day will begin with an introductory talk into personal ornamentation in the Bronze Age, focusing on jet and jet-like materials. We’ll take a closer look at what artefacts have been found in Britain, what they’re made from and how experimental archaeology can help to better understand how these objects were made.Â
The rest of the morning will be spent working with a piece of jet to shape and drill a bead before moving onto creating a shale button, belt ring or pendant.Â
Despite its fame in the Victorian period, jet and jet-like materials have been collected and shaped by people for thousands of years. Using far simpler tools than Victorian crafts people,…
Tickets
Jet Jewellery Workshop Ticket
One day jet & jet like materials workshop with Emma Jones
£90.00Tax: +£18.00 VAT
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