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| The Venue |
A three day event celebrating bronze swords and mastery of bronze age smiths, with a series of casting experiments and hands on practical work, which allows you to explore sword making in the bronze while working on your own sword (Ewart Park ). The stunning setting of the round houses of Tre-wortha farm, in a bronze age landscape of Bodmin moor, makes this a unique experience: bronze swords in a bronze age landscape and not a car in sight.
Sword festival 2005 was a roaring success, with people coming from all around the world to share a common interest in bronze swords. The combination of the right sized group and the stunning landscape at Tre-wortha farm made it a memorable experience. So when sword festival was announced for September 2006 most of the places were taken in a few days, by people who attended 2005 and it is now fully booked, so I decided to run a second sword festival in August.
Friday 11th Arrive after 2.00 and set up tent and site, there will be an evening meal and a chance for the group to get to know one another and talk about bronze swords.
Saturday 12th Thoughout the day there will be a series of casting experiments using charcoal furnace and clay moulds, this will be a group participation, while the time in between you will be cleaning your own blade, sandwich lunch, in the evening the entertainment is brought to you by the Guild of Fabulists, who will perform stories from ancient times.
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| The Guild of Fabulists |
Sunday 13th We are pleased to welcome Steve Hartgroves, who will give a talk on “Prehistoric Cornwall from the air “- with special reference to the Bronze- Age sites on Bodmin Moor. Apart from finishing the blade, and hardening the edges, we will finish the day looking at riveting handles, this is quite involved and it will only be possible to demonstrate it, so you can fit the handle in your own time. Evening meal, which you will cover, will be at the Caradon Inn, good food and beer, then back to the round house for the evenings entertainment, folk music around the open fire in the round house.
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| Scott Jasper of Dragonflymoon |
Monday 14th First thing will be to catch up on anything we have missed, then clear the site by mid day and take down the tents In 2005 the group decided it wanted to see some of the sites of Bodmin moor, stone circles and the like and if the weather is agreeable we will do the same, a degree of car pooling will be necessary.
The site is situated on high moorland and the weather can be difficult, it is camping with access to showers and toilets. If this is not your your cup of tea, then B+B is recommended. All meals except the Caradon Inn are included, ie cereals breakfast, sandwich lunch and two evening meals
Booking
The cost of the workshop is £180 and you can reserve your place with a non-returnable £40 deposit with the balance being paid by August 1st 2006
There are only sixteen places available, and the following people have booked, this event is strictly bookings only.
People Who have Booked So Far.
| 1 | Paul S | UK | |
| 2 | Geof K | UK | |
| 3 | Andy P | UK | |
| 4 | John P | UK | |
| 5 | Simon M | UK | |
| 6 | Debbie M | UK | |
| 7 | Rob C | UK | |
| 8 | Lori C | UK |