This week we spent the afternoon being archaeologists. We came up with lots of questions based on some jewellery that was found buried under the remains of a house in Colchester last summer. Who did it belong to? How old was it? Why did they hide it? Why didn’t they come back for it? We then set about working out possible ideas.

We decided that it belonged to a wealthy Roman woman and that the town had been attacked by the Celts. She was probably killed and so never returned for her jewellery.

After that, we worked to reconstruct a drawing of some pottery based on a few broken fragments. It was quite tricky repeating the pattern but we used symmetry to get the shape right.

Pottery Reconstruction – Iwan, 4RF