{"id":455,"date":"2013-08-06T19:22:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=455"},"modified":"2013-08-06T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T19:22:56","slug":"day-two-on-the-dig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Day two on the dig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We began excavating sections through a stretch of the ring ditch which has not been sampled before. The edge of the trench at the northern end of the feature had to be defined so we could locate the outer edge and position one section across the ditch.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-456\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-456\" alt=\"Excavating sections through the ring ditch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/LOM-5_UKCTD_section_excavation.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"163\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excavating sections through the ring ditch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Preliminary geophysical survey with a\u00a0 magnetometer showed that a composite plan of the area produced after the\u00a0 excavations in 1981\/82 had a serious error, placing the ring ditch around 17m too far south of its actual location. It is becoming clear that the feature&#8217;s real\u00a0 location in the landscape is more significant to the physical landscape. occupying the plateau at the crest of the downland ridge overlooking Pegwell Bay. This space, with horizons falling away on all but the north west side where the plateau continues,\u00a0 is unique\u00a0 in the natural landscape in this location. The position shares similarities with the location of many round-barrows and other ring ditch features in Thanet, the locations owing more to a careful choice of local topographic conditions rather than a reference to a wider cosmology.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-457 alignleft\" alt=\"Sectioning the later pit feature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/LOM-5_UKCTD_sectioning_pit_feature.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"168\" \/>In a later period, as yet undetermined, the southern edge of the round barrow was cut by a series of pits and possibly a\u00a0 large cut feature. We bagan to try to define the dimensions and shape of the feature by excavating another small section into it, As we make progress with this the nature of the later features will be more clearly defined and perhaps dated in the next few days of work at the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We began excavating sections through a stretch of the ring ditch which has not been sampled before. The edge of the trench at the northern end of the feature had to be defined so we could locate the outer edge and position one section across the ditch. Preliminary geophysical survey with a\u00a0 magnetometer showed that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=455\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day two on the dig<\/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":[7,54,33,36,1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-excavation-project","category-thanet_archaeology","category-training-excavation-at-lord-of-the-manor-2013","category-uncategorised","category-whatson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}