{"id":9070,"date":"2018-08-29T14:36:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9070"},"modified":"2018-08-29T14:36:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:36:24","slug":"simon-elliott-on-roman-ragstone-in-the-kent-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/08\/29\/simon-elliott-on-roman-ragstone-in-the-kent-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Elliott on Roman ragstone in the Kent Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Simon Elliott, Honorary Research Fellow in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>, featured in a double-page spread in the Kent Messenger newspaper (dated 26 August 2018) in an article exploring \u2018Roman History in Kent\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The article looks at Simon\u2019s research on ragstone quarries, an extensive industry in the region in Roman times.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Ragstone is grey-green sandy limestone from the Hythe Beds in the Lower Greensand geological formation &#8211; which we today identify as the Weald,\u2019 explains Simon in the article. \u2018It was utilised across the south east of the province of Britannia &#8211; the Roman name for Britain &#8211; in huge quantities, either as dressed facing stone in-fill rubble, or to create hard road surfaces, principally because it is hard-wearing but also workable.The sheer scale of this industry is particularly striking, with enormous quantities of stone utilised.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/kent\/news\/what-did-the-romans-do-for-us-188634\/\">www.kentonline.co.uk\/kent\/news\/what-did-the-romans-do-for-us-188634\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Simon Elliott, Honorary Research Fellow in the\u00a0Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies, featured in a double-page spread in the Kent Messenger newspaper (dated 26 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/08\/29\/simon-elliott-on-roman-ragstone-in-the-kent-messenger\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":9072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9070"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9075,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070\/revisions\/9075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}