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Bronze Age – Make metal
An archaeologist visits Butser Ancient Farm to make a bronze age axe head exactly the way Bronze Age man would have done so. Starting with copper and tin we see how an axe is made by heating the metal to 1000 degrees Centigrade and turning it into a red-hot liquid before cooling it in water. To finish the process the blade is fitted into a wooden handle. Flint and Bronze axes are then compared in order to explore the impact metal making had on people in Britain.
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