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Video playlist
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Introduction: classroom cinema
Introduction, setting the scene for Anglo-Saxon times
through the idea of ghosts of Saxons (through their settlement names).
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 13 min (V316)
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Saxon Wareham
One of the best surviving Saxon walled towns (earthen walls) and once one of the most important towns in Alfred the Great's England.
Supports: textbooks 'Saxon Raiders and Settlers'
Playing time: 3 min
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Saxon clan attack
Shows the way that small bands of raiders may have attacked in the 5th century.
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 3 min (V317)
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Village sites
Find out where Saxons chose to settle and why.
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 4 min (V318)
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A village plan
Explains what Anglo-Saxons had to think about when designing their village.
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 4 min (V319)
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Ship burial
Describes a ship burial similar to one at Sutton Hoo.
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 6 min (V320)
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Recording Anglo-Saxon times
Describes how monks recorded the times through the efforts of Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 6 min (V323)
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Cooking
Describes what Anglo-Saxon people cooked and their meals and home living.
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon raiders and settlers'.
Could be cross curricular with food through the ages and healthy living.
Playing time: 4 min (V325)
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A Saxon burh
Explains what the saxon fortified towns were like.
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 4 min (V326)
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The Battle of Hastings, 1066
A summary of this famous battle.
Supports: textbooks 'Anglo-Saxon raiders and settlers', '1066', and 'Castle'.
Playing time: 12 min (V109)
(Going to this video will take you to the medieval section.)
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