{"id":187186,"date":"2025-09-23T14:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=187186"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:42:27","slug":"12-year-old-boy-in-uk-finds-ancient-roman-bracelet-while-walking-his-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/187186\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old boy in UK finds ancient Roman bracelet while walking his dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>A 12-year-old boy walking his dog with his mom in Pagham, England, picked up a rare Roman golden cuff bracelet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/archaeology\/a66127989\/gold-roman-bracelet-dog-walk-1758045160\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Popular Mechanics<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Rowan Brannan, a schoolboy from the town of Pagham, discovered a fragment of a gold Roman bracelet dating back to the 1st century AD in a local field. At first, his mother told him to throw away the object and not bring it home, but the boy insisted on keeping it.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Rowan has always been into finding all sorts of bits and pieces,&rdquo; Amanda Brannan, Rowan&rsquo;s mom, said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m forever saying, &lsquo;Put it down, it&rsquo;s dirty,&rsquo; but on this occasion he kept holding this bit of metal, convinced that it was actual real gold.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Experts at the British Museum later confirmed that the find was indeed part of a gold ornament. According to their assessment, such jewelry was awarded as a military honor in the Roman Empire for acts of bravery.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old boy walking his dog with his mom in Pagham, England, picked up a rare Roman golden cuff bracelet, Popular Mechanics writes. Rowan Brannan, a schoolboy from the town of Pagham, discovered a fragment of a gold Roman bracelet dating back to the 1st century AD in a local field. At first, his mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":187119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187187,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187186\/revisions\/187187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}