Making Must Farm at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery -
It was great to see friends at the 'Introducing Must Farm' exhibit preview evening, and especially pleasing to see our work (as replicas & film) displayed alongside the original Bronze Age artefacts recovered by Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

#Heritage events Stanwick Lakes!
🛶This weekend watch our #BigBronzeAgeBoatBuild in action with Dr. James Dilley!
🛖 1st June - Open Day at our #IronAge Settlement - weaving, food, blacksmithing, woodwork, crafts & storytelling!
See you there! All FREE thanks to
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The newly reopened #GrimesGraves exhibition features the video I filmed with Dr. James Dilley; knapping, polishing and hafting a Neolithic axehead before using it to fell a tree. It was great to see it in situ being enjoyed by John Lord, the Grandfather of flintknapping!

Stone Age replicas on their way to Creswell Crags 🦣 gift shop!

From Creswellian points to antler harpoons and glass handaxes, you'll soon be able to get some pretty unique gifts over at crags-shop.com There are not many places you can purchase replicas like these!

Happy Birthday emmalouwynjones!

Today we celebrate Emma's birthday which is always blessed with good weather. We're so impressed with what you've achieved this year with films in new museum galleries and on TV as well as some stunning replica jewellery with workshops to boot!

It was great to see one of my 'Making Must Farm' video's on display at the 'Introducing Must Farm' exhibition at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery last week!

It's a fab exhibition that really showcases the finds along with all the hard work Cambridge Archaeological Unit Unit have done to bring this site to life.

I was delighted to be commissioned to make a set of Neolithic - Bronze Age replicas for the new English Heritage Grimes Graves exhibition space and to feature in an axe making film by emmalouwynjones. You might even recognise one of the Neolithic people working below ground!

What makes Bronze?

In prehistory it was copper and tin initially. While both metals are soft, when combined they make the hard alloy that was cast into moulds across Europe over 3000 years ago to produce thousands of swords, axes and other tools.

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Amazing two days out East for the opening of the Must Farm exhibition Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery and the new Grimes Graves experience English Heritage. Both highly recommended 🙌

Whats brown & sticky?...Yep, prehistoric glue
(its a v. dark brown, honest)

Glue use in prehistory stretches back to our Neanderthal cousins over 50,000 years ago. When coupled with some replica tools to haft, it makes an excellent display piece!

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Two of these stone tools represent the end of a time period that is around 10 times further away from the axe in the middle is to today!

The Stone Age is the longest in the human timeline, yet has left little other than stone survives for archaeologists to piece back together.

‘Sparking’ and interest in early humans…

I'm fortunate to have a profession with the objectives of inspiring & educating. Moments like this stick in young minds and its vital to use these visual tools in heritage engagement to enthuse the next generation.

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Europe 30,000ya was full of challenges, yet people lived in almost all corners. The Gravettian technocomplex dominates, but it wasn't carried by one related group. Evidence has found many groups who would be identified as Gravettian were genetically distinct from each other.

Its the weekend!
I'm off for a non-work trip, but looking forward to next week. Which will include not one but two museum display openings! First we'll be at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery for 'Introducing Must Farm', then at Grimes Graves for their new exhibition space.

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Palaeolithic handaxes were used across a vast period of time. Minutes to make and often discarded after only a brief period of use. Small numbers of handaxes in one area became many over thousands of years of people returning to the pull factors of water, food and flint.

Join emmalouwynjones, Sally Pointer and I at Creswell Crags 🦣 from the 1st of August to try your hand at flintknapping, bone & antler working, jewellery making, textiles and sprang the Stone Age way!

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Found near Hayscastle in Pembrokeshire in 1840, Crudwell-Smerrick type axes are usually only found in the east of the UK. They are believed to be earlier Neolithic. The axe was found in a turf moor which may indicate it was ritually deposited. Now on display in Tenby Museum and Art 💙

Back to the Boat Build tomorrow at Stanwick Lakes - have a go at swinging a Bronze Age axe!

The boats are looking very much like vessels nearly ready to head out on the water. This weekend we will be letting visitors have a go so come and see us in the boat yard!

Stone vs. Metal

The grand battle of the old world technology with a heritage hundreds of thousands of years in the making, against the mysterious, resource-hungry new material on the block. Both come from rock, but one could see the end of the age of stone.

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Volunteers & Dr. James Dilley are back in the boat yard this weekend for our #BigBronzeAgeBoatBuild Stanwick Lakes! A fab opportunity to watch the build in action or get hands on yourself - just speak to one of the team on the day 🛶⛏️
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