{"id":2315,"date":"2015-01-29T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2015-01-29T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:55:10","slug":"vm_365-day-214-neolithic-serrated-flint-blade-from-margate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2315","title":{"rendered":"VM_365 Day 214 Neolithic Serrated Flint blade from Margate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VM-214.jpg\" alt=\"VM 214\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The VM_365 project&#8217;s image for Day 214 is a fine, serrated flint blade excavated from a pit dating to the Neolithic period on a site near Margate Railway Station in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 blade is fine, partly-worn and serrated along both edges with approximately 11 serrations per 10mm.\u00a0 The fine blade shows some wear indicating that it has seen some use. It has a break at the proximal-end which has removed the striking platform and crushing along the ridge of the blade along with a couple of notches taken out of one edge suggest that the blade had been hafted or mounted on a handle.<\/p>\n<p>The fine serrations distributed so regularly along both edges of this blade attest to the skill and craft of the Neolithic flint worker.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VM_365 project&#8217;s image for Day 214 is a fine, serrated flint blade excavated from a pit dating to the Neolithic period on a site near Margate Railway Station in 2004. The\u00a0 blade is fine, partly-worn and serrated along both edges with approximately 11 serrations per 10mm.\u00a0 The fine blade shows some wear indicating that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VM_365 Day 214 Neolithic Serrated Flint blade from Margate<\/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":[2,10,59,18,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-in-the-store","category-margate","category-neolithic","category-uncategorised","category-vm_365-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","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=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}