{"id":908,"date":"2014-07-01T13:01:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T13:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=908"},"modified":"2014-07-01T13:01:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T13:01:56","slug":"vm-365-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"VM 365 Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Day 2 of the <a title=\"VM_365 Starts Here\" href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=909\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Museum 365<\/a> project.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/VM-1.jpg\" alt=\"VM 1\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s picture is of archaeological ceramics specialist Nigel Macpherson-Grant working in our store, sorting through boxes of prehistoric pottery from past sites. Nigel is creating\u00a0 an exemplary collection of Thanet&#8217;s ceramic material which we will use\u00a0 in the Virtual Museum for teaching, display and handling collections. You will be able to see and handle some of it at <a title=\"Archaeology for You \u2013 12th July 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=894\" target=\"_blank\">Archaeology for You on 12th July.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-922\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/VM-2-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"VM 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><br \/>\nThe two sherds of pottery shown above were in one of the boxes Nigel was looking at. They date to the Early to Middle Iron Age, between 550-400 BC and are known as rusticated coarsewares, because of the treatment of their surfaces. They were found in the Fort Hill area of Margate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Day 2 of the Virtual Museum 365 project. Today&#8217;s picture is of archaeological ceramics specialist Nigel Macpherson-Grant working in our store, sorting through boxes of prehistoric pottery from past sites. Nigel is creating\u00a0 an exemplary collection of Thanet&#8217;s ceramic material which we will use\u00a0 in the Virtual Museum for teaching, display and handling &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=908\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VM 365 Day 2<\/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":[46,7,10,62,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-for-you","category-education","category-in-the-store","category-national-festival-of-archaeology","category-uncategorised","category-vm_365-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}