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Flint knapping - The oldest trade on Earth.

Workshops & Events - 2007/2008 Past events

SPECIAL EVENT- PREHISTORIC WEEKEND

On the 4th-5th of October 2008 Will and John Lord are teaming up to host a weekend of prehistoric fun, in a woodland location on Rougham Estate, Nr Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Whats on offer: During the weekend the skills we will be teaching are, Flint Knapping, Tanning Skins, making Glue and Resin, producing Cordage, Arrow making. We will also have a pit oven burning on the Saturday with a range of primitive style food in it.

Unlocking the past - Picture copyright Worcester YAC'S

Picture - courtesy of Worcestershire County Council.

The cost is £100 per person. Contact Will for further details.

FLINT KNAPPING WORKSHOPS - £100 per day - includes up to 4 persons

Our Flint Knapping workshops can be carried out either at our home base or at a customer's preferred location. The course can be tailored from one day courses to a week's course dependant on level of skill you want to attain. One on one tuition is preferred but courses can be adapted to cater for up to 4 persons at a time.

During the course customers will learn the basic art and understanding of Flint Knapping and learn how to make a range of prehistoric tools from arrowheads to axe heads.

Courses can be specially designed to a customer's requirement. The tools used during the course are soft antler hammers, a range of different quartzite pebbles and flint.

BOW MAKING WORKSHOPS - £100 per day

Our Bow Making workshops are carried out at our home base cover the activities required to construct a six foot long bow. The course duration is three days to construct a bow from start to finish.

Types of wood used in our bows range from Hickory, Yew, Lemonwood, Purple Heart, Green Heart and Maple. The tips of the bow can be made from buffalo horn, antler or wood. Strings are made from traditional Irish linen. Handles are finished with buckskin and fine leather or other materials such as snakeskin according to customer's own requirements.

Preparing laminatesGluing laminates

The type of bow required can be tailored accordingly to a customers own specific requirements.

ARROW WORKSHOPS - £100 per day

Our Arrow workshops can be booked following our Bow Making workshops or as standalone courses. We are happy to for our customers to make either prehistoric or modern arrows. All prehistoric arrows are made from natural resources which include flint arrowheads. Types of feathers used are goose, turkey and pheasant.

Arrows can also be made to customers specific requirements.

BUCKSKIN WORKSHOPS - £100 per day

Our Buckskin Workshops provide customers with the knowledge of how to work a real deer skin into useable items ranging from clothing to accessories such as bags, belts, arrow quivers etc. This workshop is a real eye opener as not only do we have to cope with the visual content and the slightly rank smells, but the effort required to naturally convert the hide into useable cloth is quite something else. Using flint scrapers, brain or bark for tanning and finally smoking the skin to waterproof it. (peeing optional) it truly brings you into context with a highly valuable but underestimated cloth.