20 October 2023

Bronze Age Jet Jewellery Workshop

Led by Emma Jones. Venue: Learning Centre, Kilmartin Museum. Bookings via Kilmartin Museum website

Book quickly as there are only 8 spaces available on this one-day workshop, and the cost for the day is £70 and includes materials you will use to make your jewellery. The minimum age for participants is 16 years.

Emma Jones specialises in creating replica prehistoric jewellery from the Stone Age through to the Bronze Age. Having recently completed a replica of the Poltalloch Jet Necklace, Emma is fascinated by the tools and techniques our prehistoric makers would have used to create the originals found in Scotland today.

This one-day workshop will give participants the opportunity to create their own Bronze Age jewellery using a range of techniques that would have been available to makers over 5,000 years ago! 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! The workshop will contextualise Bronze Age jewellery with a focus on Scottish finds. Which artefact will you choose to replicate?

20 October 2023

Bronze Casting Workshop

Led by James Dilley. Venue: grounds of Kilmartin Museum. Book on Kilmartin Museum website.

In this one day workshop at Kilmartin Museum, participants will have the opportunity to cast their own Bronze Age axe head with the expert tuition of Dr James Dilley. Workshop participants will make their own mould and use a charcoal furnace to melt bronze at over 1000°C. They will then cast their axe and begin the cleaning and decorating process.

There are only 6 places available on this one-day workshop, and the cost is £100 per person for the day- and all materials are provided

The workshop will take place in an open marquee, so please come dressed for the Scottish weather.

The minimum age for participants is 16 years.