🛡️ Year 6 Blog: Discovering the Real Vikings 🛶

This week, Year 6 have been exploring how archaeological excavations have changed what we think about the Vikings. 🏺
Instead of imagining them only as fierce warriors, we learned that digs have revealed homes, tools, jewellery, and even everyday items that tell a very different story.

🔍 What Excavations Have Taught Us

Archaeologists have uncovered Viking villages, longhouses and workshops. These discoveries show that Vikings were:

• 👩‍🌾 Farmers who grew crops and kept animals
• ⚒️ Craftspeople skilled in metalwork and woodwork
• 🌍 Traders and explorers who travelled far across the world

These finds help us understand that Viking life was full of family, farming, building, and trading—not just raiding!

🪙 Artefacts We Looked At

We also studied a selection of Viking artefacts in class. Looking closely at objects like:

• 🗡️ Tools and weapons
• 💍 Jewellery and brooches
• 🧴 Everyday items like combs and pottery

…gave us a clearer picture of how Vikings lived, dressed, and worked.

✨ What We Learned

By exploring both excavations and artefacts, we now have a much richer and more accurate understanding of Viking life. It’s amazing how much a single object can reveal about the past!