4Learning History Essentials: Unit 6c – Vikings
Activity sheet A – Digging up one Viking
Name
Look carefully at this diagram of a Viking grave
and the objects found there. Match the numbered
objects in the grave with the key. Write the
numbers by the names of the objects.
1
9
10
Key
spearheads
arrowheads
comb
the body
stirrups
Arabic coin
bowl
round metal
axe
‘bosses’ (centres)
knife
of shields
sword
Now look carefully at this picture.
Put the same numbers by the objects in the picture.
Something is missing by the number
12 in the diagram. Can you guess
what it is?
Why have some things survived
1000 years in the grave?
Why have some things rotted away?
8
11
6
5
7
4
2
12
3