{"id":32789,"date":"2024-10-15T09:27:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T08:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32789"},"modified":"2024-10-15T09:27:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T08:27:52","slug":"ancient-river-systems-predate-a34-at-lodge-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32789","title":{"rendered":"Ancient river systems predate A34 at Lodge Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024101515.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nArchaeologists, working on the site of the soon to be updated A34 interchange at Lodge Hill, near Abingdon, have unearthed evidence of an ancient river system dating back half a million years.<\/p>\n<p>Experts from Oxford Archaeology, commissioned by Balfour Beatty, dug trial trenches and test pits to explore the area&#8217;s deep past before work on the A34 interchange begins. Discoveries include river sediment from an ancient river system and flint tools that suggest early human presence.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to the Oxfordshire County Council news release: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.oxfordshire.gov.uk\/early-hominin-evidence-uncovered-at-site-of-a34-lodge-hill-interchange\/\">https:\/\/news.oxfordshire.gov.uk\/early-hominin-evidence-uncovered-at-site-of-a34-lodge-hill-interchange\/<\/a>. Also thanks to Chat GPT API which generated the image when I gave it the story.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists, working on the site of the soon to be updated A34 interchange at Lodge Hill, near Abingdon, have unearthed evidence of an ancient river system dating back half a million years. Experts from Oxford Archaeology, commissioned by Balfour Beatty, dug trial trenches and test pits to explore the area&#8217;s deep past before work on [&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-32789","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\/32789","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=32789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}