{"id":313,"date":"2011-06-29T06:48:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T06:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk\/the-big-dig\/?p=313"},"modified":"2014-06-12T14:47:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T14:47:46","slug":"day-18-gullies-and-glistening-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/2011\/06\/29\/day-18-gullies-and-glistening-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Dig &#8211; Day 18: Gullies and glistening finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today saw the end of excavation of many more features. The house platform in area \u2018A\u2019 has almost been fully excavated except the narrow baulks, and is still producing a large amount of ceramics from the Roman era as well as possibly recycled material from the stone buildings nearby. It is also producing more high status finds, including today\u2019s discovery of a copper alloy object. First interpretations suggest that this is a \u2018terret ring\u2019 from part of the riding tackle of a horse, but it is yet to be cleaned and analysed more closely.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to the many horse and cow remains deposited together, the femur (upper leg bone) of a cow has been placed close to that of the same bone from a human. Other skeletal remains include another neonate in area \u2018C\u2019, and also a dog (named \u2018Holly\u2019 by students) which will be further excavated next week. In area \u2018A\u2019 and \u2018B\u2019, more pits and gullys are being discovered within the \u2018banjo\u2019 ditch sections as they continue to be excavated.<\/p>\n<p>Following the planning of completed feature excavations, excavators are being assigned to new features, which means that most of the site will be excavated and recorded by the end of the project. We are well on the way to another very successful season at Winterbourne Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren and Zoe<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<div id=\"attachment_315\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/files\/2011\/06\/day18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/files\/2011\/06\/day18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/files\/2011\/06\/day18.jpg 388w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/files\/2011\/06\/day18-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day 18: Pot washing in the sunshine, complete black burnished ware pot, animal bone deposits, dog burial, and decorated copper alloy object<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today saw the end of excavation of many more features. The house platform in area \u2018A\u2019 has almost been fully excavated except the narrow baulks, and is still producing a large amount of ceramics from the Roman era as well as possibly recycled material from the stone buildings nearby. It is also producing more high&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/2011\/06\/29\/day-18-gullies-and-glistening-finds\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about The Big Dig &#8211; Day 18: Gullies and glistening finds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-diary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}