3.THE BRONZE AGE
3.THE BRONZE AGE
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In this exploration of Bronze Age life pupils journey through some of the major milestones of prehistory, combining interactive lessons with hands-on workshops where they cast their own Bronze Age axe blades to experience first-hand how innovation, creativity, and community shaped the prehistoric world.
In this exploration of Bronze Age life pupils journey through some of the major milestones of prehistory, combining interactive lessons with hands-on workshops where they cast their own Bronze Age axe blades to experience first-hand how innovation, creativity, and community shaped the prehistoric world.
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Session 1.1 Carefully designed sessions led by academics experienced in bringing the latest research into the classroom and working with replica tools to engage pupils. Available in person or online.
Workshop 1.1 Hands-on workshops that engage pupils in experimental archaeology, designed to help them test hypotheses, explore processes, and evaluate evidence. Available only in person.
3.1 - Exploring the Bronze Age
3.1 - Exploring the Bronze Age
Step into the world of Bronze Age innovation, where metalworking, exchange, and mobility transformed everyday life and communities across Britain, Europe, and the Mediterranean. During the lesson we will discover how technological innovations such as metal casting and resource exchange, expanding settlements, war and mobility shaped Bronze Age societies across Britain, Europe, and the Mediterranean and some of the most surprising recent discoveries of one of the most transformative periods of British and European prehistory.
Duration: 1 hour
Price: £50
Level: KS2
Delivery: This session can be delivered either in school or online.
3.2 - Cast a Bronze Age axe
3.2 - Cast a Bronze Age axe
In one of our most requested and successful workshops, pupils experience ancient metalworking first-hand by casting a Bronze Age–style axe blade using safe, low-melt metal, gaining insight into the skill, cooperation, and innovation behind prehistoric weapons.
Duration: 1.5 hours.
Price: £200
Level: KS2 and KS3
Session requirements: an outdoor space where our archaeologist can set up a small fireplace.
Delivery: This session can be delivered in school.
3.3 - Bronze Age Britain
3.3 - Bronze Age Britain
In this session, pupils explore how archaeologists reconstruct Bronze Age Britain through the things people left behind: monuments, burials, settlements and metal objects. We begin with the arrival of Bell Beaker material culture in the early Bronze Age, using grave goods, pottery and burial practices to show how archaeologists identify cultural change, and we introduce a major shift in recent scholarship: ancient DNA now suggests that the Beaker period involved substantial migration into Britain and a dramatic reshaping of the population, not simply the spread of ideas. The session then follows the Bronze Age as a period of growing connectivity, where new technologies and long-distance exchange transformed daily life, and where Britain’s tin became central to wider bronze-making networks.
Duration: 1 hour
Price: £50
Level: KS2
Delivery: This session can be delivered either in school or online.
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3.4 - Dyeing and Weaving in the Bronze Age
3.4 - Dyeing and Weaving in the Bronze Age
In the workshop, pupils will try their hand at weaving using simple looms, handling replica fibres like wool and flax, and exploring Bronze Age dyes to create their own woven samples.
Duration: 1.5 hours.
Price: £120
Level: KS2
Session requirements: a room with a projector for presentations and tables for the workshop.
Delivery: This session can be delivered eiher in school.
This AI generate image is for illustration purposes to reflect the nature of the workhsop offered.
3.5 - Bronze age pottery making and decorating
3.5 - Bronze age pottery making and decorating
During the workshop, pupils will use craft their own pots using traditional hand-building methods like pinching and coiling. They will decorate their creations with natural textures and tools inspired by Neolithic designs, gaining hands-on experience with one of the most important innovations of the period.
Duration: 1.5 hours.
Price: £120
Level: KS2
Session requirements: a room with a projector for presentations and tables for the workshop.
Delivery: This session can be delivered in school.
3.6 - Life as ... a child in the Bronze Age
3.6 - Life as ... a child in the Bronze Age
In the Bronze Age, children were active members of their communities, learning skills through care, play, and everyday life. Using archaeology and scientific evidence such as human bones and isotope analysis, pupils discover how archaeologists learn about children’s health, diet, and the care they received, and how toys, small tools, and burials show how children learned, played, and belonged within their families and communities.
Duration: 1 hour
Price: £50
Level: KS2
Delivery: This session can be delivered either in school or online.
Sesion 3.7 - The Bronze Age beyond Britain: Indus Valley Civilisation
Sesion 3.7 - The Bronze Age beyond Britain: Indus Valley Civilisation
Pupils explore the great cities of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, which flourished during the Bronze Age between c. 2600 and 1900 BCE, analysing their street grids, drainage systems, granaries, seals and standardised weights to investigate how one of the world’s earliest urban civilisations functioned without monumental kings or royal tombs. Through archaeological evidence and current academic debates about governance, trade and the undeciphered Indus script, they learn how scholars reconstruct complex urban organisation from architecture, craft production and everyday objects.
Duration: 1 hour
Price: £50
Level: KS2
Delivery: This session can be delivered either in school or online.
If you like your classroom to explore the Bronze Age beyond Britain theme further, why not check the Greece, Egypt and Sumer and Babylon pages for more sessions and workshops?
3.8 - Life as ... a woman in the Bronze Age NEW 2026
3.8 - Life as ... a woman in the Bronze Age NEW 2026
Step into the Bronze Age and explore the lives of women as spinners, weavers, potters, priestesses, traders, and powerful elite figures, from the palace workshops of Mycenaean Greece and Mesopotamia to prehistoric Britain and Bronze Age Spain. Using archaeology, ancient texts, and extraordinary burials, this session reveals a far richer story than old stereotypes suggest: women were not confined to the margins of Bronze Age society, but stood at the heart of production, innovation, ritual, and social power.
Duration: 1 hour
Price: £50
Level: KS2
Delivery: This session can be delivered either in school or online.
Prices
Prices
Prices include all equipment, teaching and workshop materials and FREE preparatory and follow up activities for your classroom.
Discounts are applied when three or more sessions/workshops are booked together.
Travel costs may apply for schools located more than 20 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne (UK).
Number of pupils: Each in person session is designed for one classroom, typically around 30 pupils. Online sessions can be extended to larger groups.
Info and Booking
Info and Booking
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