After our recent trip 4L were excited to have another special project. This time we all set off to the local Secondary school to use their DT resources to create our own Bronze Age arrowheads out of molten metal! It was so much fun. In the D.T. rooms, which were an adventure in themselves, Mr Plumley showed us how to make a mold for our molten metal using a coping saw and a vice. It was tricky work but we all managed to make a wooden cast.
Did you know the furnace that Mr Plumley used to melt the metal in had to be 900 degrees celsius? Wow! We even saw an anvil, which is the large metal block people in the Bronze Age would have used to hammer and sharpen the arrow heads on after they were cast.
More Bronze Age adventures coming soon ….
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