Saxon Lady. Farm Setting Vocabulary Ideas. Sight Sounds Chickens clucking/scratching at the ground, roosters cawing, horse whinnies, cows lowwing, sheep/goats baa-ing, creaky buildings, horse hooves shuffling through hay or stomping through a barn, pigs rooting for fodder, the wind shushing through hay fields and trees, leaves rustling, mice skittering in the barn walls, birds fluttering as they roost, howls of night creatures (coyotes, wolves, etc) the yip of a fox, the thunk of throwing down a hay bale from the loft, the screech of birds of prey, the roar of machinery starting up, the sound of a plow turning the earth and breaking through roots, the crackle of campfires, trees falling, chainsaws, axe chopping wood, flies buzzing Smells Manure, growing crops, flowering crops (Canola, fruit trees, etc), pine needles, fresh hay, musty barns, dust, dirt, mildew, warm earth, musky animal hides, gasoline, motor oil, fertilizers, wildflowers, burning barrels, campfires, rotting vegetation or garden compost, sweat.
Setting Examples. KS2 History - Saxon life at West Stowe. Anglo Saxons Houses and Saxon villages. We know what Saxons houses may have looked like from excavations of Anglo Saxon villages, such as the one at West Stow in the east of England.
Here, an early Anglo-Saxon village (c.420-650AD) has been carefully reconstructed where it was excavated. Using clues from the what was discovered, archeologists have reconstructed the houses as they may have looked about 1,500 years ago. We know that the Saxons built mainly in wood, although some of their stone churches remain. Anglo-Saxons houses were huts made of wood with roofs thatched with straw. Much of Britain was covered with forests. Youtube. Youtube. Saxon Home. Saxon Home.