{"id":6528,"date":"2010-11-25T00:09:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T04:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6528"},"modified":"2010-11-24T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T20:08:00","slug":"they-took-more-than-400-highly-detailed-photographs-of-the-dig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/25\/they-took-more-than-400-highly-detailed-photographs-of-the-dig\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;They took more than 400, highly detailed photographs of the dig&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ablogabouthistory.com\/2010\/11\/24\/photographs-of-sutton-hoo-excavation-found-in-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Blog About History<\/a>, a story about a valuable set of over 400 photographs of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/features\/new_sutton_hoo_photographs_unearthed_1_734070\" target=\"_blank\">Sutton Hoo excavations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Like the original ship burial, this remarkable find has laid unseen and forgotten for a long time. Tucked away in a dusty storeroom were a couple of fairly nondescript cardboard boxes.<\/p>\n<p>Inside these unprepossessing packages were a photographic treasure trove which sheds new light on the discovery and the excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship burial.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the boxes were more than 400 photographs taken during the summer of 1939 by two visiting school teachers Barbara Wagstaff and Mercie Lack.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that they had contacts with The British Museum which is why they were given access to the site but very little is known about them.<\/p>\n<p>They took more than 400, highly detailed photographs of the dig &mdash; far more than the 29 official shots taken by the British Museum photographer.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures have laid forgotten until now; as a selection of them are forming the centrepiece of a new exhibition at Sutton Hoo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that the British Museum didn&#8217;t have a more comprehensive formal photographic record of the excavations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By way of A Blog About History, a story about a valuable set of over 400 photographs of the Sutton Hoo excavations: Like the original ship burial, this remarkable find has laid unseen and forgotten for a long time. Tucked away in a dusty storeroom were a couple of fairly nondescript cardboard boxes. Inside these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[288,29],"class_list":["post-6528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","tag-archaeology","tag-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Hi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6531,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions\/6531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}