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  • Home
  • Open Day 2018
  • Education days 2018
  • 2018 plans
  • Open Day July 8th 2017
  • Information for volunteer diggers
  • About the site
  • Get involved
  • Contact
  • Making Bronze Swords
  • Updates
  • Find us
  • Meet The Team
  • Gallery
  • Day 1 2017
  • Day 2 2017
  • Day 3
  • Day 4
  • Day 5
  • Day 6
  • Day 7
  • Day 8
  • Day 9
  • Day 10
  • Feedback
  • preliminary findings

Making bronze swords

Mixing copper with 10% by weight of tin, we made bronze; the technology that transformed the world c5000 years ago.

​Click the link to see a short video.  Thanks to Martin Eddy and his forge.

​Experience bronze casting on our archaeology open day, Saturday July 8th, with a replica Bronze Age furnace.
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  • Home
  • Open Day 2018
  • Education days 2018
  • 2018 plans
  • Open Day July 8th 2017
  • Information for volunteer diggers
  • About the site
  • Get involved
  • Contact
  • Making Bronze Swords
  • Updates
  • Find us
  • Meet The Team
  • Gallery
  • Day 1 2017
  • Day 2 2017
  • Day 3
  • Day 4
  • Day 5
  • Day 6
  • Day 7
  • Day 8
  • Day 9
  • Day 10
  • Feedback
  • preliminary findings