{"id":4470,"date":"2026-02-12T16:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/projects\/a382-a383-connection-road\/potted-history-project\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:28:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:28:50","slug":"potted-history-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/projects\/potted-history-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Potted History Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DCC Historic Environment Team is pleased to be supporting the <a href=\"https:\/\/barnstaplemuseum.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon<\/a>&#8216;s Potted History Project: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/potted-history-reviving-a-forgotten-archaeological-archive\/\">Potted History: Reviving a forgotten archaeological archive &#8211; News<\/a>. Volunteers will work alongside the project archaeologist to record and analyse the finds from excavations carried out in the 1970s and 1980s, including three 17th-century pottery kilns that once fired ceramics destined for trade with the Americas, Wales, Ireland, and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>More details will be available soon, and an update can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northdevon.gov.uk\/news\/2026\/museums-potted-history-archaeology-project-enters-next-phase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Devon District Council website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4464 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/02\/English_Stamp_Colour_JPEG-120x120.jpg\" alt=\"The HLF log is a blue circle containing a drawing of a hand with crossed fingers, and the text 'Made possible with Heritage Fund'\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/02\/English_Stamp_Colour_JPEG-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/02\/English_Stamp_Colour_JPEG-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/02\/English_Stamp_Colour_JPEG-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/02\/English_Stamp_Colour_JPEG-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/02\/English_Stamp_Colour_JPEG-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/02\/English_Stamp_Colour_JPEG-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/02\/English_Stamp_Colour_JPEG.jpg 1668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DCC Historic Environment Team is pleased to be supporting the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon&#8216;s Potted History Project: Potted History: Reviving a forgotten archaeological archive &#8211; News. Volunteers will work alongside the project archaeologist to record and analyse the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/projects\/potted-history-project\/\" aria-label=\"Continue reading Potted History Project\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4470","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 07:07:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4473,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4470\/revisions\/4473"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}