Anglo-Saxons Box 1, Schools Loans Box - Loan Box Subscription Service
Anglo-Saxons Box 1, Schools Loans Box |
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In the box you will find a collection of rocks to use with your class to help them learn about life in Anglo-Saxon Britain, provoke conversation and support learning in the classroom. The teacher pack contains information about the objects in the box, local history links and suggested activities that will use the objects. Each activity stands alone and can be used independently of the others. The activities and objects in this box can be used to extend the topic of the Anglo-Saxon beyond your history curriculum. Object listThis list, from the teacher pack, shows the objects that are included in the Anglo-Saxons Box 1 Loans Box. |
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Ceramic accessory urn This pot is unusual as it has survived over 1000 years in almost one piece! Pots like this were decorated with shapes stamped into the wet clay before firing. The symbols may have been special to a particular family group. Small pots were used to hold food or possibly drinks. They date to between the 5th and 7th centuries AD. 
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Ceramic loomweight This donut-shaped object is made of baked clay and was used to weigh down the vertical threads (warp threads) on a loom. There would have been a line of these loomweights at the bottom of the loom frame, they made it easier to weave the horizontal threads (weft threads) through the warp threads to make the cloth. 
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Coloured glass beads The main colours used for glass beads were blue, red, white and sometimes yellow. Beads were strung together and could be worn as a necklace or between two brooches worn one on each shoulder. Orange beads made of amber from northern Europe were also used. These beads were made between 400 and 600 AD. 
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Bronze strap end with traces of iron rivets This object is called a strap end and is about 3cms long and made of bronze, it would have been a dull red gold colour when new and polished. It was attached to a leather belt or laces with two iron rivets – you can see traces of these at the flat end. 
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