1. In 43 AD the Romans arrived in Britain. For nearly 400 years the area of England that is now Grantham was part of the Roman Empire. Often people were buried with grave goods or belongings such as jewellery, weapons or pottery. When they died, these people were either buried or cremated (their bodies burnt and the ashes often placed in a large pot or urn). The people who lived in Roman Grantham adopted Roman styles of dressing, wore Roman style jewellery and used Roman style pots, tools and money.

2. Archaeologists in Grantham have found the graves of two Roman people – a man and a woman. OH NO! The archaeologists have mixed all these grave goods up and they can’t remember which object or artefact belonged to which person – do you think you can help? Look! They were each buried with their belongings or grave goods.

3. At the bottom of this slide are the artefacts the archaeologists found. Which person you think they belonged to? On the next slide you can drag and drop the artefacts to the person you think they were buried with. Click START when you are ready …. If you don’t know what an object is click on it to find out….. START

4. MAN EITHER WOMAN BACK Click once on the artefact, then move it to a box, click again to drop. If you don’t know what the artefact is go BACK… Want to check if you are right? Click here

5. What is It? This is a knife handle made of antler bone. It is the handle of the knife blade, which is another of the artefacts found. Back

6. This is a Roman coin. What is It? Back

7. This is a Roman ring – quite small in size. What is It? Back

8. This is an iron ladle. What is It? Back

9. This is a small glass bottle or phial. It may have contained perfume. What is It? Back

10. This is a pottery oil lamp. What is It? Back

11. This is an iron key. What is It? Back

12. This is a piece of highly decorated pottery called Samian ware. It is part of a bowl decorated with a hunting scene. What is It? Back

13. This is an iron spike. What is It? Back

14. This is an iron knife blade. The antler handle, another of the artefacts found, is the knife blade’s handle. What is It?

15. MANEITHER WOMAN Did you work out which artefacts would have been with a man, which with a woman, and which might have been buried with either….? The End When archaeologists excavate (dig up) a grave they will always look at the sorts of artefacts buried with the skeleton to help them work out whether it is a male or female burial.