{"id":262,"date":"2018-10-15T15:19:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learn-resources\/?p=262"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:13:44","slug":"viking-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/2018\/10\/15\/viking-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Viking Scotland Artefact Investigation Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get hands on with history!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-243 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learn-resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-1-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"71\" height=\"74\" \/>Archaeology Scotland&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learning\/loan-kits\/viking-scotland\/\"> <strong>Viking Scotland\u00a0kit<\/strong><\/a> contains real and replica artefacts that illustrate what life was like in Scotland during the Scandinavian period (796 AD to mid-1400s AD). The kit comes with a Group Leaders&#8217; Guide, information about the artefacts and has ideas for activities and where to find out more. Because the kit is very versatile, it can be used at all levels, although the support material is primarily aimed at beginners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To book any of our kits or if you have any questions\u00a0please email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@archaeologyscotland.org.uk?subject=Loans\">education@archaeologyscotland.org.uk<\/a>\u00a0with \u2018loans\u2019 in the subject line.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may also be interested in borrowing our other kits:<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learning\/loan-kits\/\">Artefact Investigation Kits<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>There are six Artefact Investigation Kits, containing real and replica artefacts. The kits come with information about the artefacts and have ideas for activities and where to find out more.\u00a0 Because the kits are very versatile, they can be used at all levels, although the support material is primarily aimed at beginners.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learning\/loan-kits\/\">Fantastic\u00a0Flint<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>covers flint knapping\/working in the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Ages (c. 8500 BC to c. 500 BC).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learning\/loan-kits\/\">Iron Age Scotland<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>looks at artefacts, houses and settlements from c. 500 BC to c. 500 AD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learning\/loan-kits\/\"><strong>Roman Scotland<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(80 AD c. 200 AD) considers the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire.\u00a0 Most of what we know about the Romans in Scotland comes from archaeological, not historical, sources. \u00a0Full description\u00a0here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learning\/loan-kits\/\"><strong>Industrial Archaeology<\/strong><\/a> has four topics, each with its own set of activities and artefacts: the earth\u2019s natural resources; man made materials; working and living with coal; and taking it outside \u2013 finding out about Industrial Archaeology in your area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learning\/loan-kits\/vikingdiscoverychest\/\">The Viking Discovery Chest<\/a> &#8211; <\/span><\/b>These replicas and reconstructions have been carefully crafted based on real artefacts. More information on each item is included in the chest, as well as fun facts and activity ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To book any of our kits or if you have any questions please email <a href=\"mailto:education@archaeologyscotland.org.uk?subject=Loans\">education@archaeologyscotland.org.uk<\/a>\u00a0with \u2018loans\u2019 in the subject line.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by: Archaeology Scotland<\/p>\n<p>Scottish Charity no. SC001723\u00a0 Company no. 262056<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\">www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1016\" src=\"http:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learn-resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-75yrs-Copy-for-portal-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Archaeology Scotland 75 years (c) Archaeology Scotland\" width=\"139\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-75yrs-Copy-for-portal-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-75yrs-Copy-for-portal-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-75yrs-Copy-for-portal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-75yrs-Copy-for-portal-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-75yrs-Copy-for-portal-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-75yrs-Copy-for-portal-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get hands on with history!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,136,153,154,155,157,158,159,160,170,121,185,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activity","category-archaeology","category-cfe-sciences","category-cfe-social-studies","category-cfe-technologies","category-cfe-first-level","category-cfe-second-level","category-senior-phase","category-cfe-third-and-fourth-levels","category-history","category-period-viking-norse","category-primary","category-users-educators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}