The Anglo-Saxon England

 Over the past few history lessons, we have been looking at the Anglo-Saxons. 

We originally started our search with local history, when we heard about the Battle of Bentfleet (894): a burnt viking boat had been dug up near Haleigh along with a few skeletons and swords. Historians believe that the vikings had made their stronghold on top of Haleigh hill and moored their bouts in the river near by when someone set fire to one (or more) of the boats. We know that a battle then took place because of the bodies and the swords found there, so we theorised that the vikings had an enemy near by, possibly in Kent who sailed over the Thames, and they had attempted to sabotage them. Only the vikings saw from their hill and came to fight them off, the battle then ensued. We decided after researching this battle, that we wanted to look into Vikings and Anglo-Saxon Britain

We created a timeline spanning 600 years, where we outlined what we had found out about Anglo-Saxon Britain. This started with the fall of the Roman empire (450) and ended with the Battle of Hastings where William the Conqueror won and became the King of England. After completing the timeline I rewrote it on a larger A3 piece of paper, after that I wrote two paragraphs about Alfred the Great and King Canute. I then drew two maps; one from the beginning of Anglo-Saxon era and the second from the end to see the difference between the two. Finally I drew the famous helmet found at Sutton Hoo. I enjoyed making it and in making it I understand the Anglo-Saxon England.