Burren Beo - Week 3

Burren Beo – Archaeology

By Peader Cunningham, 6th Class

On week 3 of the Burren Beo project, we talked about artifacts. Gráinne gave us a sheet with ancient artifacts. We had to label them from how old they were to how new they were (1 being oldest, 9 being newest). The artifacts were; Iron sword, shoe, horseshoe, cauldron vase, stone, scroll, shell and a coin. 

Later on, we got a sheet with a grid on it. We also got a cookie and a toothpick. We had to draw the cookie and we also had to extract the chocolate chips from the cookie as if they were artefacts. On the grid, we drew each chocolate chip we extracted. We did the ones on the bottom a different colour from the ones on the top of the cookie. 

A while later, we got small pieces of a picture of an artefact. We had to piece them together like a jigsaw and find out what they were.

It taught me a lot about archaeology.