The Auckland Project Archaeology at Auckland Castle What

The Auckland Project Archaeology at Auckland Castle – What is this Building? Home Learning Activity Sheet Use this sheet as a prompt for activity at home. There a few different activities – do some or all, or use it to inspire some more creativity! In 2019, we excavated (dug up) some buildings on our lawns next to the Castle. We found some really exciting buildings and objects, including an old chapel. One of the buildings we found is in this picture:

The Auckland Project Archaeology at Auckland Castle – What is this Building? Home Learning Activity Sheet INVESTIGATE: Can you work out what this would have looked like when it was first built? Here are some clues, and a diagram (a drawing with labels) to help you: • • The hole or pit had no objects (finds) inside it There seems to be no doorway on the ground floor This building was next to the defensive outer wall The building was probably a house for someone to live in Diagram: Here is a diagram we have drawn to help you understand the picture. On the next page, we’ve labelled the picture. Before you look at that, can you try to label it yourself? Make sure the labels are clear so that anyone looking at it will know what you mean.

The Auckland Project Archaeology at Auckland Castle – What is this Building? Home Learning Activity Sheet Inside the building Stone outer wall Shallow to deep trench Deep pit Stairs

The Auckland Project Archaeology at Auckland Castle – What is this Building? Home Learning Activity Sheet QUESTIONS: Try writing answers to these questions, either on this sheet or on a separate worksheet. 1. Why do you think these steps are next to a deep pit? What could its purpose have been? 2. If you were an archaeologist, what other evidence or clues would you need to help you answer these questions? We’ll tell you what we think in a later worksheet!

The Auckland Project Archaeology at Auckland Castle – What is this Building? Home Learning Activity Sheet CREATE: Archaeologists sometimes use 3 D models, often on the computer, to help them understand what buildings might have looked like. There are lots of interesting examples on this website: https: //sketchfab. com/tags/archaeology Try creating your own version at home. 1. Take some clay or playdough (if you don’t have any, use our recipe at the end of this activity sheet) 2. Roll sections of clay/dough into different shapes. Build them up until they look like the picture above. 3. Now use anything you have around the house – lolly sticks work well, or any sticks from the garden! – to build up your structure. Is there anything new you can work out about this building from Auckland Castle now that you have made a model? 4. Once your model has dried a bit, try adding another section to it – an extension – and then taking it away. It will work even better if this is in a different colour. 5. Can you see the mark this has made? 6. This mark is called a ‘building scar’. There are some photos of examples below. When you walk around your road, can you spot any building scars? Try to work out what was there before. We’ve included pictures of some examples on the next page. 7. Try writing about or drawing diagrams of your findings.

The Auckland Project Archaeology at Auckland Castle – What is this Building? Home Learning Activity Sheet https: //cotswoldarchaeology. co. uk/redcliff-quarter-phase-1/ Missing Buildings by Thom and Beth Atkinson (Hwaet Books, 2015)

The Auckland Project Archaeology at Auckland Castle – What is this Building? Home Learning Activity Sheet MAKE: There are lots of ways to make playdough. You can use hair conditioner and cornflour, or add in cream of tartar to our basic recipe below. We’ve included a simple recipe, but feel free to get a bit experimental and look up your own ones, to work out which works best for you. If you don’t have plain flour, selfraising or other types will work. Makes: 1 coloured ball (make lots in different colours, or just increase the amounts in this recipe for more of the same colour). Ingredients: 8 tablespoons plain flour 2 tablespoons table salt 60 ml warm water (or 4 tablespoons) A few drops of food colouring 1 tablespoon vegetable oil Method 1. Mix the flour and salt in a large bowl. 2. In a separate bowl mix together the water, a few drops of food colouring and the oil 3. Pour the coloured water and oil into the flour and salt mix and mix together until it forms a dough. 4. Dust a work surface with a little flour and put the dough on it. Knead together for a few minutes to form a smooth, pliable dough. Now’s the time to add more food colouring if you want a stronger colour. 5. Repeat steps 1 – 4 with different food colourings until you have all the dough you want. For our purposes, if you don’t have food colouring you can just make white playdough, it doesn’t matter too much!