{"id":21541,"date":"2018-11-12T23:29:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T22:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21541"},"modified":"2018-11-12T23:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T22:29:49","slug":"walking-over-abingdon-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21541","title":{"rendered":"Walking over Abingdon treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18111201.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon treasure\" \/><br \/>\nThis is the bridge, rebuilt in the 1920s, over the Thames at Abingdon, with a view towards Nags Head Inn.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18111202.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon treasure\" \/><br \/>\nThis is the view across the river to St Helen&#8217;s Wharf with the Plane trees and almshouses.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18111203.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon treasure\" \/><br \/>\nA detectorist was searching for treasure round a tree root. The Detectorists TV series was one of the best comedy programmes I have seen in recent years. For every Saxon Abingdon sword there could be thousands of modern ring pulls down there. But because of Abingdon&#8217;s long history there is more treasure beneath our feet than in most places.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18111205.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon treasure\" \/><br \/>\nCulham Bridge is no longer part of the highway and was how Abingdon Bridge looked before the 1920&#8217;s rebuild. The side walls are only about two feet six inches high.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18111204.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon treasure\" \/><br \/>\nThis is the view across the river and empty car park towards a huddle of old buildings including the Abbey Buildings, Unicorn Theatre, and mill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the bridge, rebuilt in the 1920s, over the Thames at Abingdon, with a view towards Nags Head Inn. This is the view across the river to St Helen&#8217;s Wharf with the Plane trees and almshouses. A detectorist was searching for treasure round a tree root. The Detectorists TV series was one of the [&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-21541","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\/21541","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=21541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}