{"id":22311,"date":"2019-04-01T01:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T00:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22311"},"modified":"2019-04-01T01:39:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T00:39:05","slug":"interesting-find-in-abingdon-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22311","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Find in Abingdon field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040102.jpg\" alt=\"Interesting Find\" \/><br \/>\nThere have been reports for some weeks of strange smells in North Abingdon. <\/p>\n<p>Excavations have been happening in a field between the Wootton Road and Dunmore Road in North Abingdon, which is going to be houses. The archaeological dig is bigger that you would expect for such a site. They could have unearthed the bad smell.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the smell has not been found, but what has been found is part of a skull. The skull is quite human-like, but not fully human.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19040103.jpg\" alt=\"Interesting Find\" \/><br \/>\nNearby there are some very early forms of clay plates with part of a meal. Early analysis shows that it is bread-like with dried grape bits. These appear to be pre-historic currant buns.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing of interest near the human-like skull are two horns fixed into a mask-like frame.<\/p>\n<p>There is a long way to go but, if this is confirmed as a new sub-species, it could be called <em>Homo abingdonii<\/em>. It would also mean that bun throwing and morris dancing started much earlier than we thought. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been reports for some weeks of strange smells in North Abingdon. Excavations have been happening in a field between the Wootton Road and Dunmore Road in North Abingdon, which is going to be houses. The archaeological dig is bigger that you would expect for such a site. They could have unearthed the bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-fool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22311","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=22311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}