{"id":2060,"date":"2014-12-17T17:16:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2014-12-17T17:16:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:16:39","slug":"vm_365-day-171-a-feast-of-flintwork-blades-from-neolithic-site-at-pegwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2060","title":{"rendered":"VM_365 Day 171 A feast of flintwork, blades from Neolithic site at Pegwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2061\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2061\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2061\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/VM-171.jpg\" alt=\"Selection of flint baldes from Neolithic site at Pegwell Bay\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selection of flint blades from Neolithic site at Pegwell Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today&#8217;s image for VM_365 Day 171 is of a selection of blade flakes from the flintwork that was found in an excavation on a site at Courtstairs, near Pegwell Bay in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Although only one stretch of conjoined pits forming a curving line were exposed in the excavation, the finds from the site showed that a sample of the second Neolithic Causewayed enclosure to be found in Ramsgate area had been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the finely worked flint dated to the Earlier Neolithic period, however a significant proportion was residual, with only a few contexts containing only fresh-looking single period lithics.\u00a0 Other contexts had a mix of fresh and earlier residual material.<\/p>\n<p>Many blade flakes were recovered from the pit fills, some contexts producing significant quantities. Finely worked blades and bladelets which had been soft hammer-struck from blade cores were particularly common, with serrated blades frequently represented.<\/p>\n<p>The flintwork form this site is a rich source of information on the craft and technology in use in this period and there will be more to come from this site in future VM_365 posts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s image for VM_365 Day 171 is of a selection of blade flakes from the flintwork that was found in an excavation on a site at Courtstairs, near Pegwell Bay in 2007. Although only one stretch of conjoined pits forming a curving line were exposed in the excavation, the finds from the site showed that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2060\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VM_365 Day 171 A feast of flintwork, blades from Neolithic site at Pegwell<\/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":[2,8,18,25,33,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-from-the-archives","category-neolithic","category-ramsgate","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\/2060","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=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}