{"id":364,"date":"2011-07-14T09:13:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T09:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk\/the-big-dig\/?p=357"},"modified":"2014-06-12T14:47:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T14:47:45","slug":"the-big-dig-day-21-our-ancestors-adorned-themselves-with-glass-beads-and-brooches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/2011\/07\/14\/the-big-dig-day-21-our-ancestors-adorned-themselves-with-glass-beads-and-brooches\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Dig &#8211; Day 21: Our ancestors adorned themselves with glass beads and brooches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the site activities were being geared towards completing features by the end of this week. It can be felt around the site that the previously inexperienced students have now got into the rhythm of excavating and recording their features effectively.<\/p>\n<p>In area \u2018B\u2019 an impressive pit, which measured 2.5 metres in depth had a complete penannular brooch at the base. There were also defined markings on the chalk\u2019s edge in the pit that were possibly created by our ancestors digging the pit with a pick. In addition, the environmental team uncovered part of a brooch from a soil sample from the skeletal remains of \u2018Bruce\u2019 in area \u2018A.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>An eye catching artefact unearthed in a pit near the Roman platform in area \u2018A\u2019 was a blue Roman glass bead. There was also a grinding stone, possibly a saddle quern, which would have been used to grind grain and other foodstuffs, or perhaps used to grind up other types of materials.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren and Zoe<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<div id=\"attachment_358\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/files\/2011\/07\/day21e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-358\" class=\"size-full wp-image-358\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/files\/2011\/07\/day21e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day 21: Top left, clockwise\u2013 blue glass bead, penannular brooch from the base of a pit, iron brooch from the fill of a grave, recording progressing as digging nears completion, and an oval grindstone, possibly a quern stone.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the site activities were being geared towards completing features by the end of this week. It can be felt around the site that the previously inexperienced students have now got into the rhythm of excavating and recording their features effectively. In area \u2018B\u2019 an impressive pit, which measured 2.5 metres in depth had a&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/2011\/07\/14\/the-big-dig-day-21-our-ancestors-adorned-themselves-with-glass-beads-and-brooches\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about The Big Dig &#8211; Day 21: Our ancestors adorned themselves with glass beads and brooches<\/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-364","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\/364","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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}