{"id":1654,"date":"2014-10-20T15:44:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2014-10-20T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T15:44:18","slug":"vm_365-day-113-iron-age-faience-beads-from-north-foreland-broadstairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1654","title":{"rendered":"VM_365 Day 113. Iron Age Faience Beads from North Foreland, Broadstairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1656\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1656\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/VM_113.jpg\" alt=\"Two of three faience beads found with an Iron Age burial at North Foreland, Broadstairs\" width=\"600\" height=\"540\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two of three faience beads found with an Iron Age burial at North Foreland, Broadstairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today&#8217;s image for VM_365 Day 113 shows two beads made from an early type of glass called faience. These were two of three that were found at the neck of the skeleton of a woman <a title=\"VM_365 Day 43 Iron Age burial from North Foreland, Broadstairs\" href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1216\">buried in the fill of an old grain storage pit<\/a> at North Foreland, Broadstairs in the Iron Age. The third bead had decayed so far it could not be recovered.<\/p>\n<p>These beads were probably strung on a necklace, but the cord joining them and any other beads in organic material such as wood have not survived.<\/p>\n<p>Beads like this were made from an uncommon material, based on a manufacturing technique that ultimately originated in Egypt and so are thought to have been items that carried a high prestige in the Iron Age.<\/p>\n<p>The beads with this burial add a layer of detail to the interpretation of whether it was part of a deliberate and formal rite, or whether it was in some way hasty or casual, which the association with an abandoned feature of the nearby settlement seems to suggest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s image for VM_365 Day 113 shows two beads made from an early type of glass called faience. These were two of three that were found at the neck of the skeleton of a woman buried in the fill of an old grain storage pit at North Foreland, Broadstairs in the Iron Age. The third &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1654\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VM_365 Day 113. Iron Age Faience Beads from North Foreland, 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":[2,50,12,33,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-broadstairs","category-iron-age","category-thanet_archaeology","category-uncategorised","category-vm_365-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","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=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}