{"id":2308,"date":"2015-01-28T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2015-01-28T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T15:24:24","slug":"vm_365-day-213-manston-beaker-before-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2308","title":{"rendered":"VM_365 Day 213 Manston Beaker before Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The image for Day 213 of the VM_365 project is one of our pictures from the slide archive <\/a>collection. Taken in 1987, it shows the Manston Beaker prior to its restoration.<\/p>\n

The Beaker, previously featured on Day 161<\/a>,\u00a0 was found resting on its side and was lifted on site in a block of soil, tightly wrapped in bubble wrap, before being transported back to the laboratory where it was excavated from its soil block.<\/p>\n

This picture shows the base of the beaker during cleaning. We often forget when we see an object cleaned up and on display how many stages it may have gone through to get to that condition. In the case of this Manston Beaker it involved the heavy restoration of its missing parts and decorative pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The image for Day 213 of the VM_365 project is one of our pictures from the slide archive collection. Taken in 1987, it shows the Manston Beaker prior to its restoration. The Beaker, previously featured on Day 161,\u00a0 was found resting on its side and was lifted on site in a block of soil, tightly … Continue reading VM_365 Day 213 Manston Beaker before Restoration<\/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":[2,3,8,24,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-beaker","category-from-the-archives","category-prehistoric-pottery","category-uncategorised","category-vm_365-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","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=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}