{"id":17850,"date":"2017-01-03T23:17:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T22:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17850"},"modified":"2017-01-03T23:17:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T22:17:01","slug":"abingdon-sword-on-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17850","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Sword on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17010301.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Sword on View\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford there is an exhibition called &#8216;King Alfred&#8217;s Coins&#8217;. It show the recently discovered Watlington Hoard, and a large number of other local artifacts, including some from Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17010302.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Sword on View\" \/><br \/>\nYou can see the original Abingdon Sword  on display at this exhibition &#8211; an iron sword fragment and hilt found near Abingdon in 1874. The sword itself dates from around 874. <\/p>\n<p>A reproduction of the Abingdon Sword can be seen at Abingdon County Hall Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford there is an exhibition called &#8216;King Alfred&#8217;s Coins&#8217;. It show the recently discovered Watlington Hoard, and a large number of other local artifacts, including some from Abingdon. You can see the original Abingdon Sword on display at this exhibition &#8211; an iron sword fragment and hilt found near Abingdon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}