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Saxon Ship Burial

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ship burial part of painting
In the autumn term the class had investigated life in Roman Britain.
A visit to Dewa Centre in Chester together with class lessons and individual study had given the pupils a good picture of life in Roman Britain. Part of the study had included the decline of Rome and the raids of the Angles, Saxons and other Germanic peoples.

In the spring term we moved on to the Anglo-Saxons.
A previous lesson had focused on the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Ruin' and they had seen a cartoon of the Beowulf story. Pupils were aware of many differences between Roman Britons and Anglo-Saxon English.

Here pupils discuss a painted reconstruction of a ship burial - you can download the whole picture from this web page. See Resources above.

by Chris Bilboe

Last Updated: 24 Mar 2006


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