{"id":9769,"date":"2022-08-17T17:50:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/?page_id=9769"},"modified":"2023-01-09T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T09:58:18","slug":"runnymede-geophysics-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/runnymede-geophysics-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Runnymede Geophysics Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAS2022_P06<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council Meadow, Runnymede is believed to be where in 1215, the barons camped while they were negotiating Magna Carta with King John.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Monday 28<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;March 2022 until Thursday 14<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;April 2022, Andrew Hutt led a mixed team involving 9 BAS members, 7 Surrey Council Archaeological Unit volunteers, and staff from the National Trust to carry out a gradiometer survey of the meadow.&nbsp;&nbsp;They surveyed around 12ha.&nbsp;&nbsp;The results are shown below.&nbsp;&nbsp;The anomalies found in the results represented evidence of ploughing, a trackway, WWII anti-aircraft trenches, a large drainage ditch, several now defunct field boundaries and three areas with evidence of significant human activity.&nbsp;&nbsp;Artefacts found on the site suggest one of these areas may be Roman, the other two are at the south end of the field adjacent to the Langham Ponds.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1344\" height=\"1093\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Picture-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Picture-1.jpg 1344w, https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Picture-1-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1344px) 100vw, 1344px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The results of the geophysics survey of Council Meadow, Runnymede.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Download the report here:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sdm_download_button_box_default\"><div class=\"sdm_download_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/?sdm_process_download=1&download_id=10295\" class=\"sdm_download green\" title=\"Runnymede BAS2022_P06\" target=&quot;_blank&quot;>Runnymede Report 2022<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAS2022_P06 Council Meadow, Runnymede is believed to be where in 1215, the barons camped while they were negotiating Magna Carta with King John.&nbsp; From Monday 28th&nbsp;March 2022 until Thursday 14th&nbsp;April 2022, Andrew Hutt led a mixed team involving 9 BAS members, 7 Surrey Council Archaeological Unit volunteers, and staff from the National Trust to carry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/runnymede-geophysics-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Runnymede Geophysics Project<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9775,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9769","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10299,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9769\/revisions\/10299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}