Artwork by artists Lorraine Whelan & James Hayes
UMHA AOIS - 10 YEARS ON
The Bronze Age 4,000 Years On
Day long workshop at Roundwood Co Wicklow, part of 'Celebrating the
Bronze Age in Wicklow' October 22nd 2005


Niall O'Neill (right) wearing bronze casting protective leather clothing, with reinactors behind in Bronze Age clothing. Also visible are bellows and above ground clay furnaces.
Umha Aois participants (from left to right foreground) Para, Fiona & Cordula running a clay furnace, getting ready to pour bronze.
A successfully cast clay mould by Cordula Hansen, split open to show the pouring cup (now a solid lump of metal) and a ring shape of bronze.
Artwork by artists Lorraine Whelan & James Hayes