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Prehistory Factsheets

The Wiltshire Museum’s prehistoric fact sheet takes you on a journey from the Palaeolithic era to the Bronze Age, including objects used by those who lived alongside Stonehenge!

Subject:

History

Key Stage

Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3

Museum:

Wiltshire Museum
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Amber Necklace

The necklace was found with the remains of a woman buried at Upton Lovell, near Stonehenge. She was laid to rest in a Bronze Age barrow in about 1,800 BC.

Subject:

English, History

Key Stage

Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3

Museum:

Wiltshire Museum
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Looking at the theory of evolution

Alfred Russel Wallace collected a vast amount of bird skins. This collection played a crucial role in his development of the theory of evolution.

Subject:

History, Science

Key Stage

Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3

Museum:

Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
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Calling inventors – The Story of Alfred Cunnington’s telephone

Can you imagine being the first and only person in the UK to own an iPhone? In 1867, Alfred Cunnington designed his personal telephone based in drawings he saw in a magazine.

Subject:

History, Science

Key Stage

Key Stage 2

Museum:

Wiltshire Museum
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Make a Great Bustard – out of cardboard!

The everyday things we throw away have become awesome artworks! This video shows you a step-by-step guide to making the UK’s biggest land bird, the great bustard.

Subject:

Art & Design, Science

Key Stage

Key Stage 3

Museum:

Wessex Museums
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Sawfish are also called carpenter sharks...but they are rays, not sharks!

There’s also a species called a sawshark, but that’s, well, a shark!

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What the heck is a lek?

Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.

Road Runner!

The great bustard has a dignified slow walk but tends to run when disturbed, rather than fly.

Belly Buster!

The hen-bird on display at The Salisbury Museum was one of the last great bustards to be eaten in the town!

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