Antler and bone carving workshop
Sat 21 Feb
|Flagg
Descover prehistoric crafts at the Into Wilderness HQ through an immersive workshop that explores bone and antler tools. You'll use sand stone hand tools and flint blades to create a needle made from deer leg and an antler harpoon...
Time & Location
21 Feb 2026, 10:00 – 16:00
Flagg, Flagg, Buxton SK17, UK
About the event
About
Bone and antler has been used from the start of prehistory up to the modern day for making tools and ornamentation. People in prehistoric Britain had a close relationship with the animals these resources came from, what does that tell us about the past?
What were the first bone or antler tools? Which hominin added this material to their toolkit alongside stone? We’ll find out on the introductory talk to start the day. Once we move onto the making, we’ll use pieces of bone to carve bone points which will become needles, perhaps one of the most ingenious and important inventions of the Stone Age. You’ll use stone tools to carve, shape and smooth the bone point before drilling an eye for the needle with a flint drill. Needles would be rather innefective without thread, so what cordage was avalible during the time period?
Tickets
Workshop ticket
£65.00
+£1.63 ticket service fee
Total
£0.00