Wednesday 21 January 2015

Year 6 in The British Museum

The second part of the year 6 trip to London was a visit to the British Museum.
We concentrated on seeing 6 main areas of history:
The Sutton Hoo treasure - above and below



The Rosetta Stone

Egyptian treasures








The Parthenon Statues






Roman Britain - featuring 3 lots of treasure found in Suffolk: The Mildenhall treasure, the Hoxne Hoard and the head of Emperor Claudius - found in the River Alde in Rendham in 1907 by 2 Suffolk schoolboys.


Aztec treasures from Mexico




We also saw some other interesting items such as the original Beetle car from the Herbie films
An Easter Island statue

An amazing display of books


The Great Court