{"id":1580,"date":"2014-10-10T17:27:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T17:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2014-10-10T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T17:27:43","slug":"vm_365-day-103-roman-flagon-from-broadstairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1580","title":{"rendered":"VM_365 Day 103. Roman Flagon from Broadstairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/VM-103.jpg\" alt=\"VM 103\" width=\"600\" height=\"767\" \/>The image for Day 103 continues the series of images of vessels re-assembled from the many sherds recovered from the dump of kitchen ware from the <a title=\"VM 365 Day 45 Roman Broadstairs 2 \u2013 Roman building at Fort House\" href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1228\">Fort House Roman Building.<\/a><br \/>\nThe vessel shown is a ring-neck flagon, a bottle with a handle which would have been used to store liquids, perhaps even wine. The flagon is made of a silty grey fabric with the addition of very fine grog filler and tiny fragments of red ironstone less than 2mm in size. Firing has turned the fabric to a buff-brown colour. The range of manufacturing date for this type of flagon is between 130-200 AD.<\/p>\n<p>As it is pictured here, the pot has been carefully rebuilt from the 53 sherds that were recovered in the excavation, just enough sherds to reconstruct the full profile, although there were quite a few gaps. Fragments of another very similar flagon were present but could not be reconstructed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image for Day 103 continues the series of images of vessels re-assembled from the many sherds recovered from the dump of kitchen ware from the Fort House Roman Building. The vessel shown is a ring-neck flagon, a bottle with a handle which would have been used to store liquids, perhaps even wine. The flagon &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1580\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VM_365 Day 103. Roman Flagon from Broadstairs<\/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":[2,50,10,27,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-broadstairs","category-in-the-store","category-roman","category-uncategorised","category-vm_365-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","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=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}