- ale
- Drink made from barley.
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- A history of England begun in the 800s.
- archaeologist
- A person who finds out about the past by looking at old objects or buildings that are buried under the ground.
- barn
- A farm building.
- Bayeux Tapestry
- An embroidery telling the story of the Norman Conquest in 1066.
- Bede
- An English monk and historian. He lived from about 673 to 735.
- Beowulf
- A long poem about a hero, probably made up before AD 800, and written down later.
- brooch
- Ornament used to fasten clothing.
- capital
- The main town or centre of government of a country.
- Celts
- People in Britain before the Romans invaded in AD43.
- Charlemagne
- King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor.
- charm
- A magical object or words, to protect a person from harm.
- Christian
- A person who follows the religion taught by Jesus Christ.
- conquer
- To beat an enemy and control them using force.
- court
- The place where a king meets his followers and gives commands.
- cremate
- To burn a dead body to ashes.
- evidence
- Objects and facts that give clues as to what happened long ago.
- freeman
- A person who was not a slave and owned land.
- Hadrian's Wall
- Wall marking the northern frontier of Roman Britain.
- historian
- A person who studies the past.
- hearth
- A fireplace, usually in the middle of a house, and with no chimney.
- influence
- The effect of a person or things on another.
- invaders
- People who attack and try to take over land from other people.
- Latin
- Language of the Romans.
- longship
- Viking ship with a sail and oars.
- loom
- Machine for weaving cloth.
- lyre
- A small harp played at Anglo-Saxon feasts.
- mail shirt
- Armour made from chain mail, worn on the upper body.
- monastery
- The building where monks live.
- monk
- A male member of a religious group, living, praying and working together and following a set of rules.
- nun
- A female member of a religious group, living, praying and working together and following a set of rules.
- oxen
- Strong cattle used to pull carts and ploughs.
- pagan
- A person who worships many gods.
- Picts
- People who lived in Scotland at the time of Roman Britain.
- Pope
- Head of the Roman Catholic Church.
- potter
- Person who makes pots, jars and bowls from clay.
- raider
- An enemy who attacks and then goes away.
- rank
- Status or position in society.
- Reconstruct
- To rebuild something as it was.
- riddle
- A puzzle based on playing with words.
- Romans
- People who ruled an empire 2,000 years ago
- runes
- The letters of the Anglo-Saxon alphabet.
- Scots
- People in Scotland; they called themselves Gaels - 'Scots' was a name the Romans gave them.
- settlement
- A place where people make their homes.
- slave
- A person who is not free but is owned and made to work by another.
- smith
- A worker who makes things from metal, usually iron.
- strip fields
- Long narrow ploughed fields.
- Sutton Hoo
- Site in Suffolk, England, of a king's ship-burial.
- thane
- An Anglo-Saxon nobleman who owned land.
- thatch
- A roof covered in straw or reeds.
- tribe
- A group of people who share a common background and culture.
- Vikings
- People from Scandinavia who were fighters, sea-travellers, traders and farmers.
- walled
- Having a defensive wall or wooden barrier around it, such as a walled town.
- warrior
- A person trained to fight in battle.
- weaving
- Making cloth.
- well
- A hole dug to supply drinking water to a settlement or house.
- Wergild
- Money paid to a murdered Anglo-Saxon's family by the murderer.
- will
- A document setting out how a person wants their possessions shared out after death.
