Today we learned that a historical artifact is a man-made object from the past that tells us something about the time period it was made in. For example, William Wallace’s sword is an artifact. It tells us what types of materials were used to make weapons in medieval Scotland and it tells us that Wallace must have been a very strong, tall man because the sword is 5ft 6in long – almost as tall as Mrs McLean! We spent the afternoon making our own replica artifacts…

In between designing our Claymores, we finally got to use our hand-made wax seal stampers. We were working with real wax and we had to be really careful…

Here are some more examples of our finished wax seals. They worked out really well and we’re going to attach them to the signed Ragman Roll, just like the nobles did in 1296 when they swore loyalty to King Edward I…

Watch this space for our finished Scottish Claymores.

Have a great holiday everyone!