{"id":8981,"date":"2018-02-20T11:23:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T18:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8981"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:09:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:09:56","slug":"roman-boxing-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/20\/roman-boxing-gloves\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Boxing Gloves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-tyne-43120942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from BBC<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Roman boxing gloves unearthed by Vindolanda dig<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/111B5\/production\/_100096007_gloves.jpg\" alt=\"The gloves on a mannequin\" width=\"480\" \/><em><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><span class=\"story-image-copyright\">VINDOLANDA TRUST<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><span class=\"media-caption__text\">The gloves were &#8220;skilfully made&#8221; about 2,000 years ago<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Roman boxing gloves unearthed during an excavation near Hadrian&#8217;s Wall have gone on public display.<\/p>\n<p>Experts at Vindolanda, near Hexham, in Northumberland, believe they are &#8220;probably the only known surviving examples from the Roman period&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Andrew Birley, Vindolanda Trust director of excavations, described the leather bands as an &#8220;astonishing&#8221; find.<\/p>\n<p>The gloves were discovered last summer along with a hoard of writing tablets, swords, shoes and bath clogs.<\/p>\n<p>Made of leather, they were designed to fit snugly over the knuckles and have the appearance of a protective guard.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-tyne-43120942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at BBC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from BBC Roman boxing gloves unearthed by Vindolanda dig Image copyrightVINDOLANDA TRUST Image captionThe gloves were &#8220;skilfully made&#8221; about 2,000 years ago Roman boxing gloves unearthed during an excavation near Hadrian&#8217;s Wall have gone on public display. Experts at Vindolanda, near Hexham, in Northumberland, believe they are &#8220;probably the only known surviving examples from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}