Things to do

Write with Roman ink
Before computers and tablets all writing had to be done by hand, in fact writing has been around for about 6,000 years! Early writing used pictures to represent objects called 'pictograms'. The two earliest types of pictograms were 'cuneiform', used by the…

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Grow your own cropmark!
One of the most fascinating ways of spotting archaeological sites is through recognising "cropmarks". Cropmarks occur when there are ditches or features, such as a stone wall, buried underneath an area used for growing crops. The  archaeology below the surface…

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Make a tussy mussy
The causes of diseases were not understood in medieval times. One theory was that bad smells could make people ill. Tussy mussys were believed to be a way of protecting from diseases, particularly the plague, by guarding against bad smells. A tussy mussy is a sweet-smelling…

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