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Services
At Ancient Arts we provide a range of services based around years of experience in reconstructional & experimental archaeology.
See the reconstructed artefacts
Our aim is to always provide a friendly, professional & flexible service.
Learning from the past

"Ancient Arts are a committed team determined to bring our most ancient past to life. They are perceptive about client needs and flexible in working to a specific brief whether that is an exhibition, an event or a research project."

Jill Cook, Head of Prehistory
Firing up a reconstructed Bronze Age furnace!
Meet our happy customers
The British Museum
Events

Our Events are designed to allow people to see, handle & 'have a go at' prehistoric skills. Giving them a real, alive sense of their past.

The Events also include demonstrations of skills and technologies from the prehistoric through to medieval periods such as prehistoric bronze casting (click on here for more information).

Crowds at Holyhead.
We have a 'hands on' artefact and reconstructed tools collection which we encourage people to handle and use & trained staff to chat about the artefacts and answer any questions.
Flint knapping
Holyhead Maritime Festival 2003.
We also have a series of specially designed activities, which allow the public to have a go at prehistoric skills such as making and decorating prehistoric pots (click on Activities for further details). The activities and length of the workshops can be arranged to suit the needs of the individual client.
A flint knapping demonstration.
Forest Schools 2003

These demonstrations are ideal for attracting visitors to heritage events or as promotional activities.

For more information on our Events please click here.
Hand drilling
A stone knapping demonstration for Forest Schools.
Courses Hand drilling using a flint point.
Making a hammerstone Ancient Arts provide experiential learning courses for businesses who want to develop their staff's potential & for individuals or groups who discovery & use their own innate potential through fun & fascinating insights into our shared past. For more information on these adventures please click here or on the Courses icon.
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Using a spear thrower and a newly made spear tipped with flint microliths.
Making a hammerstone!
Projects
We undertake projects in experimental & reconstructional archaeology. This work includes designing prehistoric buildings for museums or heritage sites. We have recently designed a prehistoric village in North Wales which is to be used as an open air museum and resource centre. For more information on this project please click here or on our Projects icon.
Excavating a Prehistoric, wooden trough used for boiling water.
Reconstructed artefacts & replicas

We can provide replica prehistoric artefacts and reconstructed prehistoric tools for museums and universities to form part of their teaching collections.

Our reconstructed artefacts & tools have also been used in museum interpretation displays. In 2005 we produced items for New Permanent Gallery of Oriel Ynys Mon.

We are happy to make stone, bronze, iron or composite reconstructions. They can be made from scaled drawings or photographs. Please use click here for more information of use our Artefact icon.
A selection of bronze tools
A selection of replica prehistoric bronze axes and a dagger.
Advice & Media
Being interviewed during the filming of Meet the Ancestors for BBC TV

We have provided on screen reconstruction activities and off screen advice and guidance on reconstruction techniques and reconstructing individual artefacts for a number of TV programmes and interpretation designers. Please take a look at our clients list.
Filming an interview for the BBC's Meet the Ancestors.
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Ancient Arts

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email: admin@ancient-arts.org