{"id":1158,"date":"2019-03-20T09:25:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T09:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2019-03-20T09:25:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T09:25:01","slug":"anglosaxon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/anglosaxon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating Anglo-Saxon finds discovered in Tidworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #1f497d;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #00477f\"><strong>Recent archaeological investigations undertaken in Tidworth, where highways construction works are being carried out by ADCW for the Army Basing Programme (ABP), have revealed important prehistoric and Anglo-Saxon remains<\/strong><\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Part of a prehistoric enclosure ditch containing Late Bronze Age (1100 to 700 BC) and Early Iron Age (700 to 400 BC) pottery was identified, along with a sunken-featured building (see photo) dating from the Anglo-Saxon period, which contained Early to Mid-Saxon pottery (AD 410 to 850) and an iron knife. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Ruth Panes, Project Manager for Wessex Archaeology, explained: \u201c<em>The building remains comprised of a large rectangular pit and two substantial postholes cut into the natural chalk at either end. The holes would once have held timber posts to support a thatched roof. The walls are likely to have been of wood and a planked floor may have covered the pit, forming an air space below the floor and helping to keep the interior dry. The Anglo-Saxon remains are of particular interest as there is only limited evidence for settlement in Tidworth at this time.\u201d<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Earlier excavations by Wessex Archaeology revealed a Mid-Saxon cemetery containing the remains of 57 men, women and children, located approximately 700m to the south-east. This was unearthed during ABP works for the Ashdown Estate (east of the A338 Salisbury Road). \u201c<em>This cemetery may have been where the inhabitants of the newly-discovered sunken-featured building at VCP2 were buried, on higher ground and in sight of their settlement close to the River Avon below,<\/em>\u201d explained Ruth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Mark Duddy, ABP Programme Director, said, \u201c<em>It is fascinating to discover a little of the history of the defence landscape across Salisbury Plain Training Area, as we continue to transform it for the future long-term benefit of soldiers and their families<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent archaeological investigations undertaken in Tidworth, where highways construction works are being carried out by ADCW for the Army Basing Programme (ABP), have revealed important prehistoric and Anglo-Saxon remains. Part of a prehistoric enclosure ditch containing Late Bronze Age (1100 to 700 BC) and Early Iron Age (700 to 400 BC) pottery was identified, along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adcw-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}