Our WorkshopHands on History has workshops where we can make, to commision, anything in wood, leather or metal. Most of the equipment used by Hands on History is made, in house, in our workshops.  Woodworking shop. With a full range of modern machinery and period carpentry tools we can produce accurate reproductions which can be designed to be safely used by the public or for demonstrations. Our trebuchet, ballista and new for 2011 a Roman onegar were built in house. A current commision is a working Iron Age loom. We can also make traditional furniture from our large stock of native hardwoods such as oak and ash.
Metal working shop. We can make anything from a full suit of Medieval armour to swords, spears and replica cannon and mortar. We also work in bronze, copper and brass and can produce good copies of Bronze Age tools and weapons. Leatherworking shop. We have a wide range of different hides and leathers in stock with which we can produce our copies of the different leather artefacts through the ages. Flint working. Although we can do simple flint working in house, we have access to one of the best flint knappers for any orders for museum quality flint tools. As an example of a recent commision we were asked to equip an Iron age roundhouse that had recently been built for Sayers Croft in Surrey. We supplied them with beech bread making boards, rotary corn querns, copper tin-lined cooking pot, an iron cooking tripod with pot chain, an oak storage chest, a hand axe, knife, boar spear and flint and steel kit. We also supplied them with a deer hide, leather prepared hides, cloak pins, a bronze torc and genuine period Celtic and Roman coins. |
