Humanities
Humanities
Can you help historians and archaeologists solve the mystery of the Staffordshire Hoard?
Its time to come to our own conclusions about why the Anglo-Saxons decided to bury wealth and not come back to it!
Why might people might bury so much wealth and not come back and collect it?
What might you do with your most precious things? Where would you keep them? Why?
Where might the Anglo-Saxons keep extra wealth? Why?
Bronze- Send in a video explaining why you think the Hoard was buried and left by the Anglo-Saxons. What could have happened? Why do you think this?
Silver- Write a paragraph explaining your theory as to why the Hoard bus buried. State your theory and explain why using the evidence you have gathered today.
Gold- Write a paragraph explaining your theory as to why the Hoard bus buried. State your theory and explain why using the evidence you have gathered today. Then, read the extract from Beowulf. Write down what this could tell us about what happened to the Hoard.