Sword casting, the Bronze Age way, in Wiltshire.
Spent last weekend in Neil Burridge’s Yurt at Devizes Museum and Avebury, watching & learning casting and finishing techniques as they would have been practised during the Bronze Age.

The time betweeen building the fire to pouring into the mould led to lots of interesting and informative talk about history, archeological evidence of weapons, development and grave deposits.

On the Sunday, joined Neil again with more archeology students to do some axe casting and some copper smelting, with impressive results.

Now I have the unenviable task of hand finishing the rapier, polishing out the uneven areas of the blade and getting it ready for adding a handle.