{"id":1247,"date":"2014-08-18T17:36:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2014-08-18T17:36:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:36:46","slug":"vm_365-day-50-neolithic-polished-flint-axe-from-woodchurch-birchington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1247","title":{"rendered":"VM_365 Day 50 Neolithic Polished Flint Axe from Woodchurch, Birchington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/50.jpg\" alt=\"50\" width=\"598\" height=\"735\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s image is of a late Neolithic polished flint axe found during fieldwalking at Woodchurch, Birchington in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>This polished axe may originally have been intended as a status symbol or for ceremonial purposes and it would have taken many hours of polishing to achieve the beautifully smooth surface. On being broken, the ends have been reworked to become a useful hand tool.<\/p>\n<p>Other examples of<a title=\"Polished axes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/Virtual%20Museum\/3_Displays\/G3%20Displays\/Gallery3_Display5.html#Polished_flint_axes\"> polished axes<\/a> found on Thanet can be seen in the Neolithic gallery of the Virtual Musuem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s image is of a late Neolithic polished flint axe found during fieldwalking at Woodchurch, Birchington in 2011. This polished axe may originally have been intended as a status symbol or for ceremonial purposes and it would have taken many hours of polishing to achieve the beautifully smooth surface. On being broken, the ends have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VM_365 Day 50 Neolithic Polished Flint Axe from Woodchurch, Birchington<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,48,18,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-birchington","category-neolithic","category-uncategorised","category-vm_365-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}