Archaeology Christmas quiz 2025

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Across
  1. 4. The study of bones.
  2. 7. Posh Roman pad for maximum lounging.
  3. 11. Capital of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires.
  4. 12. Pottery fragment.
  5. 13. Hand tool with a curved blade at right angles, used for shaping wood.
  6. 14. Earth pigment often found in archaeological assemblages.
  7. 15. Clay-based filler material: wattle and ____.
  8. 16. Branch of the British forces based at Altrincham Munitions Depot.
  9. 17. Excavation tool for shifting spoil.
Down
  1. 1. A place at Haigh where beasts were kept to look at.
  2. 2. How Aspull ring ditch is photographed from above.
  3. 3. Neolithic burial cairn on Anglezarke Moor.
  4. 5. Largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver ever found.
  5. 6. Early medieval Scandinavians who loved a boat trip and a raid.
  6. 8. Symbol of fertility, often carved with a smirk.
  7. 9. Type of urn found at the Luzley Bronze Age Mayhill Cairn excavation.
  8. 10. Lancashire bay with a rare Bronze Age barrow.
  9. 13. Roman road begun in 312 BC by Appius Claudius Caecus. The 'Way' Graham showed us.
  10. 18. Wigan local history group published a book about this street.