Things to do

Bake an eggless cake
There was a shortage of eggs during the Second World War. Many people used powdered eggs or used recipes that did not need eggs at all. Why don’t you try making this easy eggless cake? During the War, cakes like this one would have been made as Christmas cakes. Remember…

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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 your own Viking tortoise brooches
We know quite a lot about what Vikings used to wear, and our information comes from a range of sources, including archaeology. However, fabrics do not survive very well when buried in the soil, so archaeologists do not often find pieces of clothing. What they do recover are…

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