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Book: Asterix in Britain
Perhaps not the most historically accurate account of the end of the Iron Age in Britain, but a famous one nevertheless! There are many...
Book: Beowulf
A children’s retelling of the famous Anglo-Saxon story.
Butser Ancient Farm
The perfect place to recap everyday life in Prehistory up to around 500AD!
Visit: Butser Ancient Farm (Context Recap)
July 2020: Day 6 of our Prehistory Week. A site with clusters of reconstructed historical buildings from different periods. We had been...
Old Sarum
Attraction review. We booked in advance due to coronavirus.
Visit: Old Sarum
July 2020: Day 4 of our Prehistory Week. Old Sarum is an English-Heritage run Iron Age hill fort earthwork site which had the entrance...
Woodhenge
Near Stonehenge
Durrington Walls
Near Stonehenge - possibly the "life" counterpart to Stonehenge's "death" site. Also English Heritage. This is the place with the...
Stonehenge
Run by English Heritage (although the land around in National Trust and National Trust membership also gets you in free) - the stones...
Activity: Build Roman Baths in Minecraft
Minecraft lends itself to making a Roman Bath perfectly - you can have a hypocaust system with a beautiful polished stone floor hanging...
Activity: Roman Playmobil
Playmobil do a huge range of excellent History sets! Quite a lot of them are discontinued but the pieces are pretty easy to find on EBay...
Activity: Mosaic Making
We were originally going to make a "mosaic" picture using pre-cut sticky-backed foam craft squares, when I thought Kane was going to be 5...
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