Saxon Experience
Leave only Footprints
Saxons in the Meon ValleyThis program focuses on Anglo Saxons life in the Meon Valley and current practices here at the Sustainability Centre.
Your class join us in the woodland classroom, set up as a Saxon longhouse, to look at replica artefacts of the period. We discuss the domestic life, hand crafts and warrior kit of Saxon peoples. Children engage in a hands on challenge to find evidence from pottery found in archaeological sites. Pupils also have the opportunity to weave mini-hurdles with willow, while learning about coppiced woods used by Saxons to build homes and fences. Exploring the site’s plants, herbs and ‘hedges’, a word derived from Anglo Saxon ‘haga’ meaning enclosure, we see how people then and now value biodiversity in the landscape. Finally pupils hear about the evidence left behind by Saxon settlements and consider what impact the buildings on our site have on the land and what evidence will be left for future generations. |
The Saxons in your school!Pupils will carry out some hands on activities and look at how pottery is identified from archaeological sites. |
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