{"id":538,"date":"2014-09-21T17:56:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T17:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=538"},"modified":"2014-09-09T15:17:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T15:17:58","slug":"last-stronghold-maciains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/last-stronghold-maciains\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Stronghold of the MacIains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_539\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-coast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539\" class=\"wp-image-539\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-coast.jpg\" alt=\"North coast\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-coast.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-coast-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-coast-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The north coast of Ardnamurchan between Ockle and Eilagadale<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It looks beautiful in the sunshine but it&#8217;s very different in winter! \u00a0It was to this remote and rugged stretch of the north Ardnamurchan coastline that the remnants of Clan MacIain fled early in the 1600s. \u00a0Chased out of their Ardnamurchan homes by the Campbells, outlawed by the Scottish crown, they had turned to piracy.<\/p>\n<p>All along this coast one can find small areas which show signs of having been worked as fields. \u00a0We know from the presence of stone circles that some date back to the Bronze Age, but others may have been tilled by the MacIains.<\/p>\n<p>The final stage of this grim story, of the massacre\u00a0of MacIain women and children in a cave\u00a0to which they had fled, is told elsewhere on this site &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/all-entries\/maciain-places\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks beautiful in the sunshine but it&#8217;s very different in winter! \u00a0It was to this remote and rugged stretch of the north Ardnamurchan coastline that the remnants of Clan MacIain fled early in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,82],"tags":[36,5,6],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clan-maciain","category-photo-of-the-week","tag-bronze-age","tag-history","tag-maciain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}