KS2 and Mesolithic Britain: “what did they eat?”
In this peek into the Mesolithic of Britain we are going to look at how the archaeology of the period can tell us how how people...
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Nancy Detchon
- May 13, 2015
Mesolithic Britain: First things first!
Welcome to part one of our look at the Mesolithic period in the Prehistory of Britain! In this, we try to include the basics – what you...
Nancy Detchon
- May 6, 2015
KS2 Roman archaeology workshop in New Brighton!
As it is all about the Romans, we’re going have to talk about pottery. But, not only that, the children are also going to be making their...
Nancy Detchon
- May 1, 2015
KS3 @TMAKirton uncover the past!
KS3 at Thomas Middlecott Academy in Kirton, Lincs get to grips with archaeology! Yesterday Enrichment, in the form of Ian and I, were at...
Nancy Detchon
- Apr 28, 2015
Roman London – a new perspective.
One of the things we try to do here at Enrichment is bring you news of lectures, seminars and other presentations where you can get to...
Nancy Detchon
- Apr 25, 2015
ANZAC day : A WWI war memorial to Gallipoli campaign
War memorial commemorating the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 Today is ANZAC Day and it is perhaps more poignant than ever with it being the...
Nancy Detchon
- Apr 23, 2015
The things you find when you upgrade a railway: prehistoric butter churn?
There has been a lot of talk in the media over the years about developments such as Crossrail, HS1 and HS2, especially about the cost of...
Nancy Detchon
- Apr 22, 2015
Were our ancestors cannibals?
The subject of cannibalism in prehistory is one that has rumbled on in archaeological circles for quite some time and it has recently...
Nancy Detchon
- Apr 21, 2015
FAO teachers in Cheshire: July excavation at Norton priory
One of the things we want to do here at Enrichment is to let people know about the world of archaeology. I bet that the first thing that...
Nancy Detchon
- Apr 21, 2015
The Palaeolithic – Part 3: the things people made and used
Archaeologists are, of course, very interested in the things that people in the past made, used and eventually disposed of. We have just...
Nancy Detchon
- Apr 7, 2015
Keep on track with an archaeology app?
There’s an app for everything right? Well it certainly seems that way, and like many other things in our increasingly busy lives,...
Nancy Detchon
- Apr 3, 2015
What do archaeologists actually do? A HERO from Cheshire!
I am often asked, “well, what do archaeologists actually do? Well, actually there are a lot of different answers to that question. The...
Nancy Detchon
- Apr 2, 2015
A matter of life and death: large medieval cemetery in Cambridge.
A report published yesterday has revealed a large cemetery in Cambridge which has been dated to the medieval period. The site was...
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 27, 2015
Children of WW2 at Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield
Just a little video to highlight some of the work I do with Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield. I appear about 8 seconds in, wearing ...
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 26, 2015
KS2 teachers, what can you find out about . . . the Palaeolithic?
You might think that finding information on the archaeology of the Palaeolithic of the area you live and work in might be difficult....
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 25, 2015
If you go down to the woods today . . .
If you go down to the woods today you could be in for a surprise, well at least if you go into Grin Low woods in Buxton. For while the...
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 23, 2015
Orkney ahoy?
Its getting to that time of year when we begin to look around to what’s going to be happening in the archaeological world over the summer...
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 11, 2015
Beer: its been good for you since they brewed it in Ancient Sumer.
KS2 pupils and teachers are just so lucky – they get to study heaps of interesting things in the History curriculum. One of these can be...
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 10, 2015
A new WWI heritage trail in Norfolk?
Norfolk, quiet rural backwater right? Nothing much ever happens there . . . if only that were true! After last week’s story of the...
Nancy Detchon
- Mar 9, 2015
The Palaeolithic – Part 2: The Environment
As you might well imagine, over the course of almost a million years the environment in what we now call Britain has changed...
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