Iron Gallery trail

8. Think of some metal objects you use
today at home.
Q. Which metals are they made from? Is it
iron? How do you think they were made?
Do you think people had similar objects
about 450 years ago in Tudor times when
this house was built?
Object
Metal
Made by …?
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Iron Gallery Trail
1. Firebacks protected walls from the heat
of a fire and also reflected heat back into
the room (like a radiator).
Find the Fireback .....
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5. A bull’s head
6. A character from a story or myth
7. A hand print
8. Something for cutting.
9. Find these words in the wordsearch:
● iron ore
● metal
● furnace
● blast
● cannon
● gun
● foundry
● hammer
● mould
● noise
● smoke
● heat
● fireback
● casting
● tools
2. Many of the Firebacks tell stories about
real events or myths.
Invent a story with the things below, and
tell it to the person you are with.
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Anne of Cleves Learning Resource 2014
4.
3. Fill in the sentences using the words
below:
Liquid
Iron Ore
Rock
Iron
Hammered
Mould
Furnace
A fireback is made from ……................
This is usually found as a …………. called
…………………….. This has to be heated
at very high temperatures in a …………….
Different things can be made by pouring
the hot …………. metal into a .……………
The metal can also be …………………......
into different shapes.
4. People had been making iron for
thousands of years. Sussex had all the
things needed to make iron Iron ore, wood and lots of water.
By the end of the Tudor reign and into the
C17th there were over 90 furnaces, forges
and iron works, 20 gun foundries and 5
places for making cannons in Sussex.
6. Find
a painting of a working furnace.
Imagine you are working in the iron
industry:
Q. How do you feel?
Q. What can you hear, see, smell?
Find the image of Richard Lennard.
Q. What do these objects tell us about him
or working in the iron works?
7. Draw some of the different objects
made from iron. Q. What were they used
for?
Object
5. Draw your own fireback – you could
include yourself or objects which tell
something about you.
Anne of Cleves Learning Resource 2014
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