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What was life like at home? |
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| Saucepan Pot |
| This is a hand-made storage jar known as a ‘saucepan’ pot. It is typical of the middle Iron Age in Sussex, but it could date to the early 1st century BC. |
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| Cooking pots |
| These are late Iron Age pots used for cooking. They were made using a potters wheel. |
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| Latch lifter |
| This is an iron object, designed to allow a door-latch to be lifted through a hole in the door from the outside. It acted as a simple key. |
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| Iron Age domestic reconstruction |
| This is a reconstruction of an Iron Age domestic scene. There were no separate kitchens, as food preparation and cooking would have been done in the same places as where people slept. Here you can see a clay oven and a quernstone, both probably used for making bread. |
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