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Festival 2022

The 2022 Festival of Archaeology tales place from 16-31 July and this year our theme is Journeys

We are currently developing a new website for the Festival of Archaeology

For information about the 2022 Festival please visit https://www.archaeologyuk.org/festival.html

Make a model Bronze Age dagger

Hosted digitally only

Family Workshop Online

Join Andy for an interactive online family craft workshop to make a model Bronze Age dagger out of junk.
We’ll be using scrap card from the recycling bin and things that you should have lying around at home to make a model of the Hameldown Dagger discovered in 1872 in a Bronze Age Burial Cairn.

This was a Facebook Live event but can be watch on Youtube here. 

This is a list of what you will need  to make the model Hameldown Dagger.
1. Basic craft kit- scissors, sellotape, glue- prittstick or pva(school) glue or double sided sticky tape, pencil or pen
2. Thin card from a packet like a cereal box
3. Corrugated card -thin enough to cut with scissors- like a home delivery box
4. Garden twine for handle (optional)
5. Brass paper fasteners for decoration (optional)
6. Thin stick similar to barbeque skewer about 15cm long
7. Tin foil to wrap the blade
8. Red or orange paint and brush for handle

Web and social media

Dates

Throughout the Festival of Archaeology 2020

Who

This event is hosted by:

Dartmoor National Park Authority

The event contact(s) are:

Categories

Event types
Archaeology skills icon
Archaeology skills
Excavation visit icon
Excavation visit
Exhibition / display icon
Exhibition / display
Family fun icon
Family fun
Guided walk or tour icon
Guided walk or tour
Hands-on activity icon
Hands-on activity
Re-enactment / demonstration icon
Re-enactment / demonstration
Talk / lecture icon
Talk / lecture
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Youth
Event periods

Prehistory

Romans

Saxons, Vikings & Early Med.

Medieval

Tudors and Stuarts

Georgians and Victorians

20th and 21st Century