{"id":89,"date":"2013-05-02T15:18:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T14:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=89"},"modified":"2013-05-27T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:56:36","slug":"hungerford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/05\/02\/hungerford\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungerford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the geophysical survey of the area around the villa we took a decision to survey the big field to the south. This piece of land is known as &#8216;Hungerford&#8217;, a fieldname that usually denotes poor land. In the nineteenth century this big field was a number of smaller fields some of which were named &#8216;Little&#8217; and &#8216;Lower Danscombe&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The geophysical survey was undertaken between 2009 and 2011 and revealed an astonishing <a href=\"http:\/\/webapp1.somerset.gov.uk\/HER\/details.asp?prn=29883\" target=\"_blank\">archaeological landscape<\/a>. It is of many phases but includes a large and almost circular enclosure and a settlement with trackways and enclosures. This ancient settlement was a new discovery. We had no idea it was there and it came as quite a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement probably dates to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeologyuk.org\/books\/Taylor2007\" target=\"_blank\">Iron Age and Roman periods<\/a>. Some of the geophysical anomalies are likely to be contemporary with the villa &#8211; it may be where the agricultural workers and tenants lived.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_90\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/files\/2013\/05\/HUngerford.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/files\/2013\/05\/HUngerford-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/files\/2013\/05\/HUngerford-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/files\/2013\/05\/HUngerford-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/files\/2013\/05\/HUngerford-443x300.jpg 443w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/files\/2013\/05\/HUngerford.jpg 1502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geophysics of Hungerford \u00a9 GeoFlo and the Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the geophysical survey of the area around the villa we took a decision to survey the big field to the south. This piece of land is known as &#8216;Hungerford&#8217;, a fieldname that usually denotes poor land. In the nineteenth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/05\/02\/hungerford\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geophysics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}