{"id":31029,"date":"2023-07-14T21:12:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T20:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31029"},"modified":"2023-07-14T21:12:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T20:12:27","slug":"lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31029","title":{"rendered":"Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023071401.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Lost Monuments of Abingdon exhibition at Abingdon County Hall Museum explores buildings and structures that have disappeared from the town. The exhibition features a range of excavated artefacts and information boards. It opened on July 1st and runs until October 1st.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023071403.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe lost monuments include:<br \/>\n* Abingdon&#8217;s Iron Age Oppidum (traces of a ditch indicate the iron age town&#8217;s defences)<br \/>\n* Abingdon Abbey Church<br \/>\n* Abingdon Market Cross<br \/>\n* Barrow Hills<br \/>\n* Mastervision TV Mast<br \/>\n* Union Workhouse (with model)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023071404.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere is a video of Jeff Wallis, an archaeologist, walking around Abingdon and pointing out places where the Iron Age Oppidum and a Roman Temple have been excavated. An interactive map allows you to explore the locations of the lost monuments without visiting the museum at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/lost-monuments-of-abingdon\/tour.html\">https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/lost-monuments-of-abingdon\/tour.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I found the exhibition to be very informative and interesting. Thanks to local historians, the museum, and Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council, who run the museum.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Wallis leads a tour of ancient Abingdon on Sunday, 16th July. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/event\/guided-walk-through-ancient-abingdon\">https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/event\/guided-walk-through-ancient-abingdon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lost Monuments of Abingdon exhibition at Abingdon County Hall Museum explores buildings and structures that have disappeared from the town. The exhibition features a range of excavated artefacts and information boards. It opened on July 1st and runs until October 1st. The lost monuments include: * Abingdon&#8217;s Iron Age Oppidum (traces of a ditch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31029","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=31029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}