1. Around 4000 years ago, the people living in this area began to make tools and weapons out of bronze (a mixture of copper and tin). For this reason the period of time between 2200 and 800 BC is called the Bronze Age. Often people were buried with grave goods or belongings such as jewellery, weapons or pottery. When Bronze Age people died they were either buried (under a small round mound or barrow) or cremated (their bodies burnt and the ashes placed in a large pot or urn).

2. Archaeologists in Grantham have found the graves of two Bronze Age 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. Finished? MAN EITHER WOMAN BACK Click once on the artefact, let go and drag to box, click again to drop. If you don’t know what the artefact is go BACK…

5. What is It? Back This is a food vessel (pot) with a chevron pattern

6. What is It? Back This is a light brown flint (stone) arrowhead.

7. What is It? Back These are sherds (bits) of undecorated pottery.

8. What is It? Back This is a bronze axe head (the type known as a Palstave axehead).

9. What is It? Back This is a beaded necklace.

10. What is It? Back This is a gold and shale bead. Shale is a type of stone.

11. What is It? Back This is a barbed and tanged flint (stone) arrowhead.

12. What is It? Back This is a piece of whetstone or stone axe. Whetstones were used to sharpen knives.

13. What is It? Back This is a flint (stone) dagger. It was found with a Beaker burial.

14. What is It? Back This is Bronze Age pottery.

15. MAN EITHER 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.