Ellen’s Outing Report
Students traveled to the Anglo Saxon Church, All Hallow's Barking and the British Museum.
The picture below is of the group in front of The Tower.
Ellen Chornoboy's Outing Report: Visit to the British Museum
By visiting both All Hallows and The British Museum, the main focus was to read and learn about Anglo-Saxons in the 6th to 7th century. Our main mission when visiting the British museum was to see the Sutton Hoo helmet. There was a replica and a reconstruction of it as well. Besides the helmet, there was an illustration of a boat burial that was discovered in 1939. There were not that many artifacts but there was a lot of information about the Anglo-Saxon period in the 600s.
In the middle picture is the Sutton Hoo helmet, which was mentioned in the above paragraph above. On the right is a lyre replica. A Lyre is a string instrument. The one below is made out of wood and was used for reciting stories and accompanying along poems. Lastly on the left, is a drinking horn. Drinking horns come in pairs and are decorated with the tips being carved like bird heads while at the other end human or beast faces interlacing.
