Ireland

Two-day Bow-Making Course with Mike Henderson

Date
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Organised by
Irish National Heritage Park (INHP) (IE)
Country
Ireland

Course will cover the art of the bow-making and the use of bows in hunting and warfare. This is a practical hands-on course. Participants will learn to shape and form traditional bows, to make string from natural raw materials. At the end of the course, participants will leave with their very own bow.

(hand tools & materials included)

Seminar: Viking Age Women

Seminar: Viking Age Women
Date
Organised by
Dublinia Heritage Centre (IE)
Country
Ireland

Join us for a seminar exploring Viking women of Norway and Ireland with speakers and topics including….

‘Discovery of Viking female burial, Finglas’ – John Kavanagh, Icon Archaeology.

‘Significant Women. Female Viking Burials in Norway’ – Mari Arentz Østmo, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Archaeology, University of Oslo

Three day Hide Tanning Workshop

Three day Hide Tanning Workshop
Date
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Organised by
Wildwalkbushcraft
Country
Ireland

Before the advent of modern tanning agents, humans were turning raw skin into usable leather products using very basic techniques and materials. Learn to produce incredibly soft, strong and durable leather from raw animal skin using one of human kind’s earliest tanning technologies!

Scandinavian Arrowheads of the Viking Age, Their Manufacture and Distribution

Author(s)
Hector Cole 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2023/2
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the arrowheads used in the Viking Age and their distribution. The 187 excavation of Viking graves in the Black Earth of Birka region of Sweden, re-examined in 2019 by Price (Price, et al., 2019) and the finding of arrows and arrowheads where glaciers have melted in Norway, prompted my research into the forging techniques of specific arrowheads from these...

EXARC Sessions at EAA 2023

Call for Papers: EXARC Session at EAA 2023
Date
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Organised by
European Association of Archaeologists
Country
Ireland

At the annual conference of the EAA there will be several sessions related to experimental archaeology which EXARC happily supports. They fall in theme 4, "People of the Present - Peopling the Past".

Please note: the conference is hybrid, but only EAA members will be able to see presentations or participate.

-> Experiments with Organic Materials