{"id":591,"date":"2014-12-06T12:05:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=591"},"modified":"2014-12-06T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T12:07:47","slug":"591","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/591\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_592\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-mingary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-592\" class=\"wp-image-592\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-mingary.jpg\" alt=\"North Range, Mingary Castle\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-mingary.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-mingary-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-mingary-1024x701.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Range, Mingary Castle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Scaffolding has obscured the front of the main residential building in the courtyard of Mingary Castle for the last year, so it was an exciting moment, a milestone in the refurbishment of this historic building, when the scaffolding came down last week, revealing a\u00a0facade modelled on what the &#8216;north range&#8217;\u00a0would have looked like after its last major refurbishment, some time around 1720.<\/p>\n<p>This is not as the MacIains would have remembered it. \u00a0At the height of their power on Ardnamurchan, this would have been a mediaeval hall with cellars beneath, feasting hall above, and an upper area for sleeping accommodation. \u00a0This hall isn&#8217;t lost &#8211; archaeologists have found that many of its walls still stand, incorporated into later building.<\/p>\n<p>Completion of the refurbishment of the castle is due early next summer. \u00a0For more details of this historic\u00a0project, go to the Mingary Castle blog- link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mingarycastletrust.co.uk\/mingarycastletrust\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scaffolding has obscured the front of the main residential building in the courtyard of Mingary Castle for the last year, so it was an exciting moment, a milestone in the refurbishment of this historic&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,3,82],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-of-ardnamurchan","category-mingary-castle","category-photo-of-the-week","tag-mingary-castle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}