{"id":191,"date":"2012-11-01T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T10:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=191"},"modified":"2012-11-01T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T10:01:02","slug":"thanets-historic-coast-displayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Thanet’s Historic Coast Displayed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trust members were at Ramsgate Harbour for the day on Sunday October 28th October, taking part in the\u00a0 Historic Coast at Ramsgate event, held for Kent’s Coastal Week. The weather proved to be surprisingly mild after the lashing wind and surprise hail storms of the day before.<\/p>\n

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The Trust’s stall at the Historic Coast Ramsgate Event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Trust’s display focused on the dynamic coastal change which has altered the shape of the Isle of Thanet over the centuries.\u00a0 Finds of pottery and flint were on show on our stall, collected from the beach under Dumpton Gap where a settlement dating from the Late Iron Age and Roman period erodes with every fall of the chalk cliffs.<\/p>\n

Reconstruction plans showed the sequence of change of the east Kent coast from the Mesolithic period, which has removed so much of the land mass that once stood at the confluence of the\u00a0 Thames valley and the English Channel, where Thanet now stands.<\/p>\n

The immense changes to the regions coastline proved to be a talking point for the steady flow of visitors to the Trust’s stand and those of the other local historical groups who were there on the day. The day went well despite the cold wind that got up later in the afternoon. It was an opportunity to renew friendships and make new contacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trust members were at Ramsgate Harbour for the day on Sunday October 28th October, taking part in the\u00a0 Historic Coast at Ramsgate event, held for Kent’s Coastal Week. The weather proved to be surprisingly mild after the lashing wind and surprise hail storms of the day before. The Trust’s display focused on the dynamic coastal … Continue reading Thanet’s Historic Coast Displayed<\/span> →<\/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":[7,33,1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-thanet_archaeology","category-uncategorised","category-whatson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","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=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}