2. Supplementary videos
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Axes through the ages
Explains what Early Stone Age and Middle Stone Age hand axes were like. Includes axes a third of a million years old!
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 14 min (V269)
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Hand axe
What a Stone Age hand axe looks like.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 40 sec (V897)
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Flint cutter
A pice of flint used as a cutting tool in the Stone Age.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 30 sec (V879)
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Stone Age arrowheads
Arrowheads from the Stone Age period.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 30 sec (V880)
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Avebury Stone Circle
Describes how the temple was built and used.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 9 min (V270)
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Long barrow
Explains how the Wayland's Smithy long barrow was used.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 4 min
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Moving Stonehenge
Describes how the great stones might have been moved to Stonehenge. Cross curricular with Science Forces.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age'.
Playing time: 8 min (V271)
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A Bronze Age house
Explains what family life was like in the Bronze Age home.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 5 min (V272)
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A Bronze Age farm
Explains what farming was like in the Bronze Age.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 3 min (V273)
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An Iron Age house
Explains what family life was like in the Iron Age home.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 5 min (V274)
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Iron Age farming
Explains what strip lynchets were like, and why they were used.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 2 min (V275)
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An Iron Age fort
Explains how an Iron Age hillfort was used.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 8 min (V111)
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A Scottish broch
Explains what a Scottish fortified house from the Iron Age was like.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 4 min (V276)
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Making pottage
Cooking a pottage. This video uses modern tools but explains the reasons why it was the key meal throughout the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, and beyond.
Supports: textbook 'The Stone Age', 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 8 min (V1040)
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Brooches
Two different styles of decorative brooch used to fasten clothes in Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1148)
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Cloaks
Examples of the sort of cloth used to make cloaks and blankets in Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1149)
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Tunics
Examples of the sort of cloth used to make tunics in Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1150)
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Shoes
Shoes of the style worn in Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1151)
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Decorative beads
Shows replica beads of the style used in Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1160)
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Currency bar
Shows a metal bar that was used as a form of currency in Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1159)
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Romano-British coins
Replicas of the coins used in Britain under Roman occupation.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1175)
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Loom weight
Shows a loom weight, which would have been used to hold vertical threads in place during weaving.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1169)
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Horse bit
Replica metal horse bit of the style used in Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1164)
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Shield boss
Replica metal boss that would have been in the middle of a Bronze Age shield.
Supports: textbook 'Celtic times'.
Playing time: 1 min (V1178)
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