Faience

Faience, also known as Egyptian Paste, was produced in the Bronze Age by skilled craftsmen for use in high status jewellery and as votive objects.

The images below show the beads made in June 2007 using modern recipes and firing techniques as the starting point for research into the production methods.

Several of these beads, and those from later trial firings, have been traded and sold during various events in 2007

This will be developed by attempting to fire the beads in a lower technology fire and then using more suitably authentic materials, which were available in the Bronze Age. Watch this page for details.