{"id":1642,"date":"2014-10-19T17:05:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2014-10-19T17:05:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T17:05:25","slug":"vm_355-day-112-roman-brooch-from-minster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1642","title":{"rendered":"VM_355 Day 112. Roman Brooch from Minster."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1648\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/VM-112.jpg\" alt=\"VM 112\" width=\"600\" height=\"510\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s image is another brooch found at the <a title=\"Virtual Museum of Thanet's Archaeology Roman Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/Virtual%20Museum\/3_Displays\/G6%20Displays\/Virtual_Museum_Gallery_6_Display_1_AbbeyFarm.html\" target=\"_blank\">Roman villa site at Abbey Farm, Minster.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This lozenge shaped plate broochwith an intact pin, although bent, is made of copper alloy.\u00a0 It measures 33mm long and 18mm wide and has a circular hollow back. There is a central raised projection that was filled with enamel that is now coloured yellow and dates to the 2nd to 3rd centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Other Roman brooches from the site have been posted on <a title=\"VM_365 Day 88. Rosette brooch 1st Century AD\" href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1503\" target=\"_blank\">Day 88<\/a>, <a title=\"VM_365 Day 89. 2nd Century Brooch from Minster, Thanet\" href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1494\" target=\"_blank\">Day 89<\/a>, <a title=\"VM_365 Day 90. Roman Equal-ended Brooch\" href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1508\" target=\"_blank\">Day 90<\/a> and<a title=\"VM_365 Day 96. Roman Enamelled Brooch from the Villa at Minster in Thanet\" href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1549\" target=\"_blank\"> Day 96<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s image is another brooch found at the Roman villa site at Abbey Farm, Minster. This lozenge shaped plate broochwith an intact pin, although bent, is made of copper alloy.\u00a0 It measures 33mm long and 18mm wide and has a circular hollow back. There is a central raised projection that was filled with enamel that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1642\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VM_355 Day 112. Roman Brooch from Minster.<\/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":[2,25,27,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-ramsgate","category-roman","category-uncategorised","category-vm_365-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","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=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}