Iron Age

This year APPA-VC celebrates its 25th anniversary.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the hugely successful experimental conference at West Dean in 2010, and the subsequent volume of the same name, the Historical Metallurgy Society would like to invite submissions for both practical metallurgical experiments and oral presentations to be held over a two-and-a-half-day event at the Ancient Technology Centre in Dorset in June 2020.

"Recreating Costume: From source interpretation to the result":

This year's edition of the Festival will be organized under the slogan "Back to the past" . We will present a wide range of attractions, among which both adults, school children and families with children will find something for themselves. And all this in an inter

Experience heat and iron as the forges of fire at The Irish National Heritage Park are fired up for the inaugural Steel Bangers Festival on September 14th and 15th. Our resident Blacksmith will bring his crew of metal workers and steel artists to the Medieval Lodge in the heart of the Park and they will stoke the forges and tell the story of iron and steel and the pivotal role it played in

Experience the Bostel di Rotzo Museum & Park as in the Iron Age!

In cooperation with Suliis As Torc - Evropa Antiqva - Municipality of Rotzo - Pro Loco Rotzo - Pegaso Pony Club - Livelet Educational Archaeological Park - VALE Cultural Association - Department of Cultural Heritage - University of Padua / Stempa

A warm welcome to the crafts week! During this week, Vitlycke Museum's Bronze Age farm becomes a handicraft farm, an open space for all our visitors to roam around in and learn, ask questions or just feel the atmosphere. It will be cast, woven, sewn and burned.

Join Mark Havey from the Butser Education team and  discover how our ancient ancestors gathered materials and made use of them. This workshop is suitable for anyone interested in prehistory and history, ancient technology or bushcraft.