{"id":12497,"date":"2023-03-20T23:18:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T23:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12497"},"modified":"2023-03-20T23:18:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T23:18:35","slug":"in-a-west-midlands-mere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/03\/20\/in-a-west-midlands-mere\/","title":{"rendered":"In a West Midlands mere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new academic paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14614103.2023.2187520\">&#8220;The Midlands of England: Economic Backwater or an Agricultural Powerhouse?&#8221;<\/a> offers the results of a&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;palaeo-environmental investigation from Aqualate Mere near Newport, Staffordshire [6 miles west of Stafford,] undertaken on the sediment record [found there &#8230;] from the later prehistoric period onwards. The results challenge the idea this region was a backwater, as there is near-continuous agricultural activity around the mere from the Late Bronze Age through to modern times.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new academic paper, &#8220;The Midlands of England: Economic Backwater or an Agricultural Powerhouse?&#8221; offers the results of a&#8230; &#8220;palaeo-environmental investigation from Aqualate Mere near Newport, Staffordshire [6 miles west of Stafford,] undertaken on the sediment record [found there &#8230;] from the later prehistoric period onwards. The results challenge the idea this region was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}