Bronze and Pewter Casting
The Exhibitors
John Bartholomew
I will be casting bronze into clay moulds, using a charcoal furnace to heat the metal to about 1100 C
Mark Vyvyan-Penney
Snowflakes cast with pewter in moulds carved from cuttlefish.
I will be playing with fire and molten metal, attempting to cast a bronze axe head, from a pattern carved originally in wood and then made into a two part mould using clay.
http://htp://www.vyvyanpenney.co.uk
markvyvyan@hotmail.com
Bill Crumbleholme
With help from my apprentice Laurence Eastwood, I will be casting lead-free pewter into clay and cuttlefish moulds and also using my grandfather's lead soldier moulds to make Nurdling Trophies.
http://www.beakerfolk.co.uk
bill@beakerfolk.co.uk
Venue Location
About the Exhibition
Demonstrations of metal casting.
Bronze casting into clay moulds, making Bronze Age axe heads and similar.
Lead Free Pewter casting into clay moulds and also into moulds carved from cuttlefish - a technique at least as old as the Romans.
Directions, Parking and Accessibility
Look out for the smoke and flames
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About South Dorset Ridgeway Festival July 2010
The Ancient Wessex Network is staging an event as part of the South Dorset Ridgeway Festival within the Festival of British Archaeology.
Look for more information about the whole Festival on the AONB website
The Ancient Wessex Network members will be demonstrating during the day on Sunday 25th July and hosting a celebration in the evening at the top of the Ridgeway, between Goulds Hill and the main Dorchester to Weymouth Road.
More information can be found by following the links on the lefthand menu.
Fans of the Festival and the Network are invited to the evening celebration, bookings by email are now open for anyone who wishes to reserve some of the evening Hog Roast feast and refreshment. Follow this link for details.
This event is on the route of a British Heart Foundation Sponsored Walk during the day visit the website for details
The South Dorset Ridgeway Heritage Project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Natural England to help local people and visitors to the area discover and celebrate this outstanding ancient ceremonial landscape, wildlife and stories. Located in South Dorset, between Weymouth and Dorchester alongside the Jurassic Coast this area is unique in the country for the number of historic monuments along its ridge. Not only does it present incredible evidence of past lives it has also provided more recent inspiration for art and literature.
A Press Release about the event can be found at this link