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ANGLO-SAXON DISCOVERY
Journey through Anglo-Saxon life and death
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Anglo-Saxon Arrival
When did they arrive?
Who lived in Britiain before?
Where did they come from?
How do we know about the Anglo-Saxons?
Anglo-Saxon Life
Test your knowledge
Anglo-Saxon Clothes
What did the Anglo-Saxons wear?
How did the Anglo-Saxons make their clothes?
Anglo-Saxon Needles
Anglo-Saxon Spinning
Anglo-Saxon Weaving
Explore Loomweights
Explore Needles
Explore Spindlewhorls
Making Anglo-Saxon Clothes
More About a Loomweight from Sutton Courtenay
More About a Needle from Abingdon
Anglo-Saxon Beads
Anglo-Saxon Brooches
Anglo-Saxon Buckles
Anglo-Saxon Combs
Anglo-Saxon Toilet Sets
Explore Beads and Pendants
Explore Buckles
Explore Children's Clothes
Explore Combs
Explore Cosmetic Brushes
Explore Earscoops
Explore Men's Clothes
Expore Picks
Explore Saucer Brooches
Explore Toiletsets
Explore Tweezers
Explore Women's Clothes
More About Buckles from Wallingford
More About a Comb from Sutton Courtenay
More About a Neckleace from Wheatley
More About Saucer Brooches from Abingdon
More About a Toiletset from Frilford
More About Tweezers from Frilford
Anglo-Saxon Food and Drink
What did the Anglo-Saxons eat and drink?
Anglo-Saxon Eating and Drinking
How did the Anglo-Saxons grow their food?
Anglo-Saxon Farms
Explore an Axe
Explore a Bell
More About A Bell from Sutton Courtenay
How did the Anglo-Saxons cook their food?
Anglo-Saxon Cooking
Explore a Cooking Pot
Explore a Strike-a-Light
More About a Cooking Pot from Sutton Courtenay
More About a Fire Steel from Brighthampton
What did the Anglo-Saxons eat?
Anglo-Saxon Knives
Explore Bowls
Explore Knives
What did the Anglo-Saxons drink?
Anglo-Saxon Horn Objects
Explore a Decorated Bucket
Explore a Glass Bowl
Explore a Horn Core
More About a Horn Core from Sutton Courtenay
Anglo-Saxon Settlement
Where did the Anglo-Saxons live?
Anglo-Saxon Farms
Anglo-Saxon Houses
Anglo-Saxon Place-names
Anglo-Saxon Villages
Explore Burgred's Farm
Explore a House
Explore Sigbert's Village
More About Objects found in a House a Sutton Courtenay
More About Objects found in House 28 at Sutton Courtenay
Anglo-Saxon Daily Life
What sort of things did the Anglo-Saxons do?
Anglo-Saxon Clothes
Anglo-Saxon Coins
Anglo-Saxon Farms
Anglo-Saxon Games
Anglo-Saxon Language - Old English
Anglo-Saxon Swords
Anglo-Saxon Trade
Anglo-Saxon Weapons
A Day in the Life of Anglo-Saxon Children
A Day in the Life of An Anglo-Saxon Man
A Day in the Life of An Anglo-Saxon Woman
Explore an Axe
Explore a Coin of Harold II
Explore a Gaming Piece
Explore a Scale Pan
Explore a Shield Boss
Explore a Spearhead
Explore a Sword
More About the Coin of Harold II
More About a Gaming Piece from Sutton Courtenay
More about Roman Coins
More About Scales
More About a Spearhead from Abingdon
Anglo-Saxon Death
Test your knowledge
Anglo-Saxon Burial
What did the Anglo-Saxons do with their dead?
Anglo-Saxon Burial
Explore a Male Burial
Explore a Female Burial
Explore a Child Burial
Anglo-Saxon Cremation
Explore a Cremation Urn
Explore Asthall Barrow
Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries
Anglo-Saxon Beliefs
What did the Anglo-Saxons believe in?
Anglo-Saxon Beliefs
Explore Anglo-Saxon Decorated Brooches
Explore the Ixworth Cross
Ixworth Cross
More About a Square-Headed Brooch from Brighthampton
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
Anglo-Saxon Coins
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
Anglo-Saxon Kings
Explore the Alfred Jewel
Explore a Coin of King Alfred
More About the Alfred Coin
Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire
Anglo-Saxon Place-names
Anglo-Saxon Oxford
Oxford in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
Edward Thurlow Leeds
What is archaeology?
The work of E.T. Leeds
The life of E.T. Leeds
Meet the Vikings
Who were the Vikings?
Where did the Vikings come from?
When did the Vikings arrive in Britain?
How do we know about the Vikings? - Sources of Evidence
Viking Life
Clothes
Settlements
Trade
Weapons and Warfare
Games and Leisure
Viking Death
Burying the Dead
Myths and Beliefs
The Vikings and Anglo-Saxons
The Vikings and King Alfred
The Danelaw
Cnut - The Viking King of England
What happened to the Vikings
Teacher Resources
National Curriculum Links at Key Stage 2
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