{"id":508,"date":"2014-08-28T18:07:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T18:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=508"},"modified":"2014-09-01T18:18:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:18:32","slug":"ruins-tell-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/ruins-tell-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruins Tell a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_500\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-farmstead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-500\" class=\"wp-image-500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-farmstead.jpg\" alt=\"Farmstead\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-farmstead.jpg 1400w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-farmstead-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-farmstead-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ruins of some farm buildings.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the joys of Ardnamurchan is the hiking that can be enjoyed across its hills. \u00a0There are very few fences, and most of these are easily crossed. \u00a0Further, there is a\u00a0&#8216;right to roam&#8217; which is enshrined in Scottish legislation, so one can wander where one wills.<\/p>\n<p>The result is that, in some remote part of the peninsula, we often come across the scattered remains of what was obviously a human settlement. \u00a0This is an example, which we stumbled upon a week ago to the north of Achnaha &#8211; the scattered stone remains of what may have been three agricultural buildings. \u00a0They all had square corners, which suggested\u00a0a date after the clearances &#8211; and so it proved because they were not marked on William Bald&#8217;s map of 1806, but the centre building, possible;y a dwelling, was marked on the Ordnance Survey&#8217;s 1872 6&#8243; map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the joys of Ardnamurchan is the hiking that can be enjoyed across its hills. \u00a0There are very few fences, and most of these are easily crossed. \u00a0Further, there is a\u00a0&#8216;right to roam&#8217;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,82],"tags":[50,5],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-of-ardnamurchan","category-photo-of-the-week","tag-alexander-bald","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}