{"id":550,"date":"2014-09-14T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=550"},"modified":"2014-09-09T15:17:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T15:17:17","slug":"viking-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/viking-house\/","title":{"rendered":"A Viking House?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_551\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2-archaeology.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-551\" class=\"wp-image-551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2-archaeology.jpg\" alt=\"Viking Raiders\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2-archaeology.jpg 1400w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2-archaeology-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2-archaeology-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A possible Viking raiders&#8217; house<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This broken line of rocks in a Portuairk bay may look like no more than\u00a0the remains of an old wall, but it&#8217;s of some considerable interest to the local Ardnamurchan Community Archaeological group. \u00a0A recent visit by archaeologists from Archaeology Scotland suggested this structure\u00a0might be the remains of a temporary Viking house.<\/p>\n<p>When Viking raiders stopped for a short time on a foreign coastline, they would build a house by raising walls the shape of their boat, and then turning the boat upside down on them as a roof. \u00a0That this curved line of rocks is about 18m long may, therefore, be significant: the most common Viking raiding ship, the snekkja, was usually about 17m long, and carried some forty men and their cox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This broken line of rocks in a Portuairk bay may look like no more than\u00a0the remains of an old wall, but it&#8217;s of some considerable interest to the local Ardnamurchan Community Archaeological group. \u00a0A&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,82],"tags":[5,42],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-of-ardnamurchan","category-photo-of-the-week","tag-history","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}