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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 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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Ruthwell Cross
Shows the Anglo-Saxon cross at Ruthwell, Dumfries and Galloway, which was originally an outside cross where people met to pray before churches were built.
Transition from pagan times.
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 5 min (V321)
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The Moan at Canonby
This famous cross contains a rare 'moan'. It comes from Cumbria.
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 3 min (V322)
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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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Anglo-Saxon churches
Shows two of the best-preserved and longest-surviving Anglo-Saxon churches in England (in Northamptonshire).
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 6 min (V324)
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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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Wallingford Saxon burh
A drive through Wallingford, the site of a Saxon burh.
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 4 min (V960)
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Alfred the Great
Shows the statue of Alfred the Great in Winchester, along with some facts about his life.
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 1 min (V829)
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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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Making pottage
A video showing a pottage being cooked. For the poor, pottage was eaten every day. This video explains what it was, why it was made, and how it lasted as a key meal not only during times, but from its Stone Age beginnings right through to the present day.
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon Raiders and Settlers'.
Playing time: 8 min (V1040)
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Making flour by hand
This video shows grain being ground by hand using a pestle and mortar to produce flour. People in the past had to grind corn manually like this to make the flour needed to make bread.
Supports: textbook 'Anglo-Saxon Raiders and Settlers'.
Playing time: 4 min (V970)
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