{"id":102,"date":"2017-02-17T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T12:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/?p=102"},"modified":"2018-03-30T14:37:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:37:02","slug":"excavation-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Excavation completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-103 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Carnoustie10-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Carnoustie10-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Carnoustie10-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Carnoustie10-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Carnoustie10-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/>On 17 February 2017, the GUARD Archaeology team completed their excavation of the archaeological remains at Balmachie Road, Carnoustie. Altogether they had recorded the remains of up to 12 sub-circular houses that probably date to the Bronze Age along with the remains of two rectilinear halls that likely date to the Neolithic period. The Neolithic features are significant in themselves, and include the largest Neolithic Hall ever found in Scotland. The hoard was buried in a pit close to a roundhouse that cut through the large Neolithic hall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-104 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/guided-tour2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/guided-tour2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/guided-tour2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/guided-tour2-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/guided-tour2-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/>Over the\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">previous six months, the Carnoustie excavation had received a lot of interest. Not least from teachers and pupils at Carnoustie High School, which lies adjacent to the site. So GUARD Archaeologists had led guided tours of the excavation to 200 pupils and teachers from Carnoustie High School and other schools in Angus. Following requests from Angus Council, G<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">UARD Archaeology were also able to offer\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">week-long<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">work placements to two pupils from Carnoustie<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0High School and Brechin High School\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Community, who are interested in studying archaeology at University. The Carnoustie excavation ended with<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0Open Days and guided tours of the\u00a0 site over the last two days of the excavation in February 2017 attended by over 200 people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 February 2017, the GUARD Archaeology team completed their excavation of the archaeological remains at Balmachie Road, Carnoustie. Altogether they had recorded the remains of up to 12 sub-circular houses that probably date to the Bronze Age along with the remains of two rectilinear halls that likely date to the Neolithic period. The Neolithic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}