{"id":581,"date":"2014-11-16T18:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T18:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=581"},"modified":"2014-11-16T18:01:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T18:01:39","slug":"6000-year-old-cairn-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/6000-year-old-cairn-found\/","title":{"rendered":"6,000-Year Old Cairn Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_582\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1-cairn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-582\" class=\"wp-image-582\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1-cairn.jpg\" alt=\"Erickson's Cairn\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1-cairn.jpg 2000w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1-cairn-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1-cairn-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neolithic Kerb Cairn to the east of Mingary Castle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This site is less than a mile to the east of Mingary Castle, just beyond the lime kiln used to produce the mortar\u00a0used to build\u00a0its great walls. \u00a0Found by Ricky Clark, a member of the Ardnamurchan Estate&#8217;s staff, only a week ago, its main feature &#8211; arrowed &#8211; is what is probably a Neolithic kerb cairn, a burial mound which, in its original form, consisted of a great mound of stones over a &#8216;cist&#8217;, a tomb constructed of slabs of local stone, of which two are still visible\u00a0in the centre of the circular structure. \u00a0The site was cleared on Saturday by members of the Ardnamurchan Community Archaeology group who, to be honest, were amazed at what they had found as\u00a0it&#8217;s not marked on any archaeological maps of the area. \u00a0Also visible are two ancient walls and another circular structure just beyond the cairn, picked out by tufts\u00a0of\u00a0marsh grass, leaving the archaeological group plenty\u00a0more to work on in the future. \u00a0Now named Erickson&#8217;s Cairn, the site will be\u00a0registered with Archaeology Scotland. \u00a0More details on the Kilchoan Diary &#8211; link <a href=\"http:\/\/kilchoan.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/11\/ericksons-cairn.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site is less than a mile to the east of Mingary Castle, just beyond the lime kiln used to produce the mortar\u00a0used to build\u00a0its great walls. \u00a0Found by Ricky Clark, a member of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-of-ardnamurchan","category-photo-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}