Festival of Metals

24 and 25 May 2025

Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire PO8 0BG

(close to Portsmouth, UK)

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Join the Historical Metallurgy Society for a weekend of all things metal !

Renowned researchers and craftspeople will share their skills and knowledge at Butser Ancient Farms on the weekend of 24 and 25 May 2025. Demonstrations of various metalworkers will take place while national and international researchers are presenting big-picture overviews of their findings. In-depth talks on the history of metal objects next to the creation of ‘metal art’.

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Day	Time	Speaker	Title
Saturday 24 May	11 am	Simon Timberlake	Prehistoric metal mining in Britain
	12 am	Russell Wanhill Omid Oudbashi	Case Histories of Fracture in Ancient Metals
	1pm	Justine Bayley	Non-ferrous metal working in the first millennium – Roman to Vikings
	2pm	Tim Young	Bloomery ironmaking in southern Britain, resources and technology, from the early Iron Age to the late Medieval period
	3pm	Jeremy Hodgkinson	Iron-making in the Weald, 1490-1828: Sows, Cannon and Iron Backs
Sunday 25 May	11 am
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