{"id":62,"date":"2008-11-14T17:56:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/?p=62"},"modified":"2009-02-18T05:13:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T05:13:33","slug":"darwin-archaeological-dig-researches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/2008\/11\/darwin-archaeological-dig-researches\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin archaeological dig Researches:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Northern Territory Environment Department<\/strong> says an <em>archaeological dig<\/em> on a vacant lot in the Darwin CBD has uncovered historically significant money and medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The department says among the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/discoveries.htm\">discoveries<\/a><\/strong> they have found a chinese coin, an Australian penny, a pearl shell and metal that may have come off soldiers buckles during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>The excavations have now reached a depth of four metres below the surface and are expected to be finalised by the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage officer, Patricia Bourke says other materials including shells, bone and charcoal have also been found on the site. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 1px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/images\/Darwin.jpg\" alt=\"Archaeological dig researches\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;One of the most exciting finds so far has been a well that was located with help from the Chin family, who were owners of the building for many years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The well is a reminder of a time when there was no reticulated water in Darwin and residents relied on wells for drinking water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Territory Environment Department says an archaeological dig on a vacant lot in the Darwin CBD has uncovered historically significant money and medicine. The department says among the discoveries they have found a chinese coin, an Australian penny, a pearl shell and metal that may have come off soldiers buckles during World War II. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","tag-darwin-archaeological-dig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}