{"id":2989,"date":"2015-05-06T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2015-05-06T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T16:00:15","slug":"vm_-365-day-311-roman-millstone-from-a-pit-at-minnis-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2989","title":{"rendered":"VM_ 365 Day 311 Roman millstone from a pit at Minnis Bay."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3000\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3000 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/VM-311.jpg\" alt=\"VM 311\" width=\"600\" height=\"491\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After P.H.G Powell-Cotton and G. F. Pinfold, 1939.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today&#8217;s image for Day 311 of the VM_365 project shows a large Roman Millstone found on the foreshore at Minnis Bay in 1938 by a 14 year old schoolboy named James Beck. The picture of the millstone was taken at the Powell-Cotton Museum where the millstone now resides.<\/p>\n<p>James Beck identified and excavated a group of eight pits of Roman date assisted by Antoinette Powell-Cotton. The millstone, measuring nearly a metre in diameter and almost 12 centimetres thick, was found covering one of the pits, an irregular shaped cut which measured about 73 centimetres deep. A fragment of millstone of a similar date found at Broadstairs previously featured on <a href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1307\" target=\"_blank\">Day 59 of the VM_365 project<\/a>. Below the millstone, the pit also contained a fine red ware vessel, two fragments of samian pottery, horses teeth and fragments of wood.<\/p>\n<p>James Beck also identified a Bronze Age site in the same area as the group of Roman pits and excavated and recorded a Bronze Age hoard that was previously featured on <a href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2219\" target=\"_blank\">Day 202 of the VM_365 project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s image for Day 311 of the VM_365 project shows a large Roman Millstone found on the foreshore at Minnis Bay in 1938 by a 14 year old schoolboy named James Beck. The picture of the millstone was taken at the Powell-Cotton Museum where the millstone now resides. James Beck identified and excavated a group &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2989\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VM_ 365 Day 311 Roman millstone from a pit at Minnis Bay.<\/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":[2,48,5,8,27,34,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-birchington","category-bronze-hoards","category-from-the-archives","category-roman","category-thanets-heritage-pioneers","category-uncategorised","category-vm_365-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","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=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}