Must Farm – A Bronze Age house and more!
Last week I have the opportunity of visiting Must Farm, a Bronze Age settlement site, with members of the Prehistoric Society. Right...
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Nancy Detchon
Nov 30, 2014
Back to the Stone Age for Ormskirk!
Y3s at Aughton St Michaels CE Primary School in Ormskirk became archaeologists for the morning when they excavated artefacts from the...
Nancy Detchon
Jul 14, 2014
Anglo-Saxons at The Croft
Last Thursday, I returned to the Croft Primary School in Rugeley, Staffordshire, to deliver a workshop to Y5 to support the teaching of...
Nancy Detchon
Sep 24, 2013
Anglo-Saxon Workshop at Atherton
I returned to St Richard’s Primary School in Atherton last week to deliver an Anglo-Saxon archaeology workshop. After training the...
Nancy Detchon
May 30, 2013
Samian Ware Workshop preparations…
For the past few days, my house and garden has looked rather like a Samian Ware factory… For those of you who don’t know, Samian Ware is...
Nancy Detchon
Dec 3, 2012
Putting my new-found potting skills to the test!
I took my new found beaker-making skills with me when I last visited FitzHerbert Primary School in Fenny Bentley. Focussing the children...
Nancy Detchon
Nov 9, 2012
First attempt at making replica Bronze Age beakers…
Well, those of you who tweet, may have caught on to the fact that yesterday I began my first attempt at making replica Bronze Age...
Nancy Detchon
Feb 16, 2012
Buxton Area Home Education Group
On Friday 10th February, I visited parents and children from the Buxton Area Home Education Group with my archaeological tools and...
Nancy Detchon
Feb 13, 2012
Make and Break with CADW
Interesting ideas for engaging children in archaeology are coming from Cadw and Archaeology Wales. On the back of their excavations in...
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