Sutton Hoo burial site

The material in this section  supports the following sections of the QCA Scheme of Work for History unit 6b ?Why have people invaded and settled in Britain in the past? An Anglo-Saxon case study?:

• What was in the Sutton Hoo grave?
• Whose grave was it?

First produced for BECTA, this activity consists of a range of tasks based on pupils searching an NGFL approved Internet site for information on historical artefacts. The British Museum web site contains the Compass database with over 3000 entries including the Sutton Hoo artefacts used in this investigation.

Pupils work through, individually and collectively, a number of tasks:

• Use an online database to find out about the past
• Examine in detail a range of artefacts
• Collect information about an artefact
• Make inferences about artefacts
• Sort artefacts into categories
• Interpret and present the results of their investigations
• ? Summarise the general characteristics of artefacts from one historical period

The activity supports the development of generic research processes