{"id":56357,"date":"2016-11-16T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_anglo-saxon_graves_in_norfolk_thought_to_be_oldest_found_in_uk\/"},"modified":"2016-11-16T18:00:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T18:00:03","slug":"guardian_anglo-saxon_graves_in_norfolk_thought_to_be_oldest_found_in_uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56357","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Anglo-Saxon graves in Norfolk thought to be oldest found in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six Anglo-Saxon graves believed to be the oldest ever found in Britain have been discovered on a waterlogged site in a river valley in Norfolk, alongside 81 coffins made from hollowed oak trunks.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists think the startlingly well-preserved plank-lined graves were part of the burial ground of an early Christian community, dating from between the 7th and 9th centuries. Tree ring dating is being carried out to establish a more precise age.<\/p>\n<p>Finding timber graves of this age is extremely rare, due to wood\u2019s tendency to leave little more than a decayed smudge in the earth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2016\/nov\/16\/anglo-saxon-graves-in-norfolk-thought-to-be-oldest-found-in-uk\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Anglo-Saxon graves believed to be the oldest ever found in Britain have been discovered on a waterlogged site in a river valley in Norfolk, alongside 81 coffins made from hollowed oak trunks. Archaeologists think the startlingly well-preserved plank-lined graves<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56357\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,438,199,133,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-history","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}