{"id":1386,"date":"2014-09-14T14:46:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T14:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2014-09-14T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T14:46:50","slug":"vm_365-day-77-tivoli-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1386","title":{"rendered":"VM_365 Day 77: Tivoli Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1395\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/VM-77.jpg\" alt=\"Tivoli Villa excavation facing across Tivoli Park toward Hartsdown\" width=\"600\" height=\"461\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tivoli Villa excavation facing across Tivoli Park toward Hartsdown c. 1924<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1924, a Roman building known as <a title=\"Tivoli Roman Villa, Margate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/Virtual%20Museum\/3_Displays\/G6%20Displays\/Virtual_Museum_Gallery_6_Display_1_Tivoli.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tivoli Villa <\/a>was discovered while laying out new roads on the west side of Margate. The building was discovered at the southern end of the new Tivoli Park Avenue and was excavated and recorded by Dr Arthur Rowe. Only a single photograph, shown above, and a sketch plan survive although Roman finds from the site are at Margate Museum and the British Museum.<\/p>\n<p>The walls of the building were constructed from flint and there was also evidence of painted plaster and mosaic floors. The layout of the part that Rowe excavated suggests that the structure was foundations of a series of rooms from a much larger range of buildings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1924, a Roman building known as Tivoli Villa was discovered while laying out new roads on the west side of Margate. The building was discovered at the southern end of the new Tivoli Park Avenue and was excavated and recorded by Dr Arthur Rowe. Only a single photograph, shown above, and a sketch plan &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1386\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VM_365 Day 77: Tivoli Villa<\/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":[2,59,27,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-margate","category-roman","category-uncategorised","category-vm_365-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","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=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}