{"id":2897,"date":"2015-04-24T17:56:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T16:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2015-04-24T17:56:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T16:56:39","slug":"vm_365-day-299-iron-age-comb-decorated-sherds-from-dumpton-excavation-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2897","title":{"rendered":"VM_365 Day 299 Iron Age comb decorated sherds from Dumpton excavation archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2912\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/VM-299.jpg\" alt=\"VM 299\" width=\"600\" height=\"228\" \/>Today&#8217;s image, for Day 299 of the VM_365 project, shows six joining sherds and two other sherds from the decorated shoulder of the same Late Iron Age vessel. The sherds\u00a0 belong to the pottery assemblage that we have been examining in our VM_365 posts, all contained in the <a title=\"VM_365 Day 293 What\u2019s in the archive box?\" href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2855\" target=\"_blank\">the box of archive from the 1964 excavation<\/a> at Broadstairs.<\/p>\n<p>The sherds are from a large grog-tempered Late Iron Age &#8216;Belgic&#8217; style storage jar, where a band of very fine horizontal combing has been applied beneath the plain neck and rim. In the upper part of the combed band there is a panel of diagonal decoration from the tip of the comb. This type of decoration, a narrowish band of diagonal or more commonly crossing diagonals of comb tip impressions, is quite a common occurrence on &#8216;Belgic&#8217; style storage jars of Late Iron Age or Early Roman date. The sherds represent a vessel that probably dates to some time between 25-75 AD.<\/p>\n<p>Other VM_365 posts exploring the contents of this archive box have been posted on <a title=\"VM_365 Day 294 Iron Age and Roman pottery sherds from 1964 Dumpton excavation  Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2861\" target=\"_blank\">Day 294<\/a>, <a title=\"VM_365 Day 295 The medium is the message\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2835\" target=\"_blank\">Day 295<\/a>, <a title=\"VM_365 Day 296 Mortaria from the 1964 Dumpton Gap site\" href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2876\" target=\"_blank\">Day 296<\/a>, <a title=\"VM_365 Day 297 Samian from the 1964 Dumpton Gap site\" href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2867\" target=\"_blank\">Day 297<\/a> and <a title=\"VM_365 Day 298 Iron Age pottery from the 1964 Dumpton Gap site\" href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2885\" target=\"_blank\">Day 298<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>With thanks to Nigel Macpherson-Grant for kindly providing information on this vessel.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s image, for Day 299 of the VM_365 project, shows six joining sherds and two other sherds from the decorated shoulder of the same Late Iron Age vessel. The sherds\u00a0 belong to the pottery assemblage that we have been examining in our VM_365 posts, all contained in the the box of archive from the 1964 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2897\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VM_365 Day 299 Iron Age comb decorated sherds from Dumpton excavation archive<\/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":[2,50,52,8,12,24,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-broadstairs","category-coy-archive","category-from-the-archives","category-iron-age","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\/2897","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=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}