{"id":2198,"date":"2015-01-13T18:03:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2015-01-13T18:03:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:03:37","slug":"vm_365-day-198-middle-ion-age-painted-pottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2198","title":{"rendered":"VM_365 Day 198 Middle Iron Age painted pottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2199\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2199\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VM-198.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Iron age paint decorated pottery\" width=\"600\" height=\"506\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early to middle Iron age polychrome decorated pottery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The image for Day 198 of the VM_365 project is of a sherd of multi-coloured or &#8216;polychrome&#8217; decorated fineware pottery, dating from the Early to Middle Iron Age.<\/p>\n<p>This group of conjoining sherds from a small-diameter beaker or round bodied jar, made in a fine fabric, was found at Sarre in 1991. The exact dating could be narrowed down further in the future, but it can be safely dated to between\u00a0 around 450-350 BC.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the vessel is painted with a triangular or chevron decoration in cream to white pigment.\u00a0 The triangles are infilled with red iron-oxide pigment. This fragment of vessel is probably the best example that we currently have of this type of polychrome decorated pottery from Thanet.<\/p>\n<p>Although only a small fragment of the pattern is present, it is possible to reconstruct the shape of the body of the pot from the curve of the sherds and to imagine how the pattern extended over the whole surface of the\u00a0 exterior of the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image for Day 198 of the VM_365 project is of a sherd of multi-coloured or &#8216;polychrome&#8217; decorated fineware pottery, dating from the Early to Middle Iron Age. This group of conjoining sherds from a small-diameter beaker or round bodied jar, made in a fine fabric, was found at Sarre in 1991. The exact dating &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2198\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VM_365 Day 198 Middle Iron Age painted pottery<\/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":[2,12,24,29,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-iron-age","category-prehistoric-pottery","category-sarre","category-uncategorised","category-vm_365-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","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=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}