For this month’s session we were looking at death and burial. First Cat gave a short talk on how burial practice changed through the ages.

Then it was time to make our burials.  It was a tricky busy cutting out all the parts of the skeletons then assembling them with paper fasteners!

Once the skeletons were made we then had to decide what age our burial can from and make grave goods to go with them.

After this we had a look to see if we could work out what time period everyone’s burials were from.

This month Gemma White came to talk to us about the work of the Coastal and Marine Department at Wessex Archaeology.

She explained why it is important to look underwater and we found out what sort of things the divers find. In fact we found a few objects ourselves!

We had a go at indentifying a whole range of finds – from fossils to bits of aeroplane.

Finally we made our own underwater seascapes, with fish, wrecks and divers.

Gemma works on a project called Time Travelling by Water and you can find out more about it on her website.

Thanks for coming Gemma, we had a great time!