| Umha Aois is an Irish group of artists, archeologists and other bronze
age enthusiasts, who get together several times a year to celibrate the
ancient bronze casters of the bronze age, by trying to rediscover this
ancient craft and generally having a great time together. Between july
12th and 19th 2009, Umha Aois was invited by the Lejre Experimental Center
in Denmark. This center has a large area with reconstructions of buildings
from the stone age, iron age, Viking period and 1850s. This year the theme
in Lejre is "War and conflict". With regard to this theme, we were asked
to focus on weapons, and the artifacts of the Muldbjerg chieftain in particular.
With only 6 days to work with, which is very very short when having to
build furnaces, prepare moulds, castings etc. we managed to cast the Muldbjerg
sword, as well as various other artifacts. Photos of the event can be found
below. |