Year 3 - Iron Age Investigators

Date: 13th Oct 2024 @ 2:31pm

Following on from our learning about the Stone Age, we started to investigate how life changed during the Iron Age.  We studied the Iron Age settlement, Danebury and completed some paired work.  One of the tasks was to examine the arial photograph of Danebury and discuss what we thought the holes may be.  Some of our ideas were shelters, wells and tunnels.  We then found out that they were storage pits were they hid grain as it was such a precious resource to them.  Our other paired task was to study a photograph of artefacts found at the Danebury site and try and figure out what they were and what that tells us about how people lived in the Iron Age.

We also studied an illustration of an Iron Age hill fort.  We thought about what we could see and then what we could work out from what we could see.  For example, we saw a plough so we could work out that they were farming and we saw a dog so we could work out that they kept pets.We also thought about questions we had from the picture.  Some of our questions included: Why are there antlers on poles?  and Why is there a wall and a gate?