{"id":973,"date":"2017-07-24T18:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=973"},"modified":"2017-07-24T18:32:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T17:32:47","slug":"first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2017\/07\/24\/first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"First impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first proper day on site. We achieved a lot, removing the turf and topsoil. This has exposed a rubble spread and some other deposits that seem to be later than the rubble. We&#8217;re not entirely sure what&#8217;s going on yet&#8230; time will tell. We have had our first finds &#8211; a few sherds of pottery and a couple of fragments of animal bone (including a few cattle teeth). There&#8217;s plenty of Roman brick and tile and even a few tessera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/WsDbq7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4318\/35744748550_2a11172da6.jpg\" alt=\"20170724_142816\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s worked really hard and a great deal was achieved. Thanks go to Colin who ran our equipment to site in a trailer pulled by his tractor. Lots of thanks also to Andy who spent a lot of the day driving around Yeovil for various bits and piece and did sterling work putting the big army tent up.<\/p>\n<p>We returned home to some delicious chicken wraps lovingly prepared by Dan and James I<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first proper day on site. We achieved a lot, removing the turf and topsoil. This has exposed a rubble spread and some other deposits that seem to be later than the rubble. We&#8217;re not entirely sure what&#8217;s going on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2017\/07\/24\/first-impressions\/\">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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excavations-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","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=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}