{"id":71,"date":"2016-09-09T12:35:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T12:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/?p=71"},"modified":"2018-04-04T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:23:58","slug":"strip-and-excavation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Strip and excavation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-85 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/topsoil-monitoring-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/topsoil-monitoring-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/topsoil-monitoring-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/topsoil-monitoring-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/topsoil-monitoring-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following on from the initial evaluation, a monitored topsoil strip and archaeological excavation was begun<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">on 5th September 2016\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">by a larger GUARD Archaeology team led by Alan Hunter Blair. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">This work, undertaken on behalf of Angus Council, was recommended by the Aberdeenshire Council Archaeology Service (archaeological advisers to Angus Council) after several pits containing prehistoric pottery were unearthed during the earlier evaluation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The aim of this work is to\u00a0monitor the machine-excavation of topsoil to establish the full extent of prehistoric features. Our objective is to keep excavating until we have established\u00a0a 10-20 m wide archaeologically sterile buffer around the limit of any archaeological features uncovered. Only with such a buffer will we be confident that no more archaeology is present.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from the initial evaluation, a monitored topsoil strip and archaeological excavation was begun\u00a0on 5th September 2016\u00a0by a larger GUARD Archaeology team led by Alan Hunter Blair. This work, undertaken on behalf of Angus Council, was recommended by the Aberdeenshire Council Archaeology Service (archaeological advisers to Angus Council) after several pits containing prehistoric pottery [&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-71","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\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}