{"id":558,"date":"2014-10-17T10:57:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T10:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=558"},"modified":"2014-10-17T10:57:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T10:57:12","slug":"standing-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/standing-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_559\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-standing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-559\" class=\"wp-image-559\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-standing.jpg\" alt=\"Bronze Age standing stone at Branault\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-standing.jpg 1800w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-standing-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-standing-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Branault Standing Stone<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The standing stone at Branault is one of two impressive othostats on Ardnamurchan, the other being at Camas nan Geall. \u00a0It&#8217;s 2.2 metres high, and was\u00a0one of a pair, the other standing about a metre to the north and having, at some stage, fallen and been removed so that only a stump remains.<\/p>\n<p>Little is known of the societies that raised these structures, or of the\u00a0stones&#8217;\u00a0purpose. \u00a0Most are late neolithic to bronze age\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0over 4,000 years old &#8211; so the MacIains would have seen this\u00a0stone and, possibly, wondered who had raised it. \u00a0The location is called Cladh Chatain, which revers to\u00a0St Chatan&#8217;s churchyard, so there was, at one time, a church here which was dedicated to the saint. \u00a0There is also said to have been a nearby sacred spring. \u00a0There is no evidence of either today.<\/p>\n<p>The stone is an historic monument and, therefore, protected, but the West Ardnamurchan Community Archaeology group have been doing some work on it, including taking a large number of photos\u00a0which have enabled them to create a three-dimensional model. \u00a0The results can be seen on the link <a href=\"http:\/\/kilchoan.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/10\/branault-standing-stone-in-3d.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The standing stone at Branault is one of two impressive othostats on Ardnamurchan, the other being at Camas nan Geall. \u00a0It&#8217;s 2.2 metres high, and was\u00a0one of a pair, the other standing about a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,82],"tags":[36,5],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-entries","category-photo-of-the-week","tag-bronze-age","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}