{"id":3322,"date":"2024-06-08T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2024-10-24T12:16:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:16:49","slug":"broch-of-gurness-08-jun-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/broch-of-gurness-08-jun-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Broch of Gurness (08 Jun 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We visited yet another wonderful site on the 8th! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicenvironment.scot\/visit-a-place\/places\/broch-of-gurness\/\">Broch of Gurness<\/a> is  Iron Age rather than Neolithic, and very well preserved. It has a stunning site, overlooking Eynhallow Sound and the <a href=\"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/birsay-moor-and-sands-of-evie-08-jun-2024\/\">Sands of Evie<\/a>. Whilst the Broch was the star, I also got a couple of photos of Fulmars on the wing I was rather pleased with. I&#8217;ve also included photos of some of the information boards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"973\" height=\"730\" data-id=\"3330\" src=\"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/PXL_20240608_132027441_0973.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/PXL_20240608_132027441_0973.jpg 973w, https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/PXL_20240608_132027441_0973-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/PXL_20240608_132027441_0973-508x381.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"973\" height=\"649\" 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Broch of Gurness is Iron Age rather than Neolithic, and very well preserved. It has a stunning site, overlooking Eynhallow Sound and the Sands of Evie. Whilst the Broch was the star, I also got a couple of photos of Fulmars on the wing I was&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[364,43,271,44,14,328,356,23],"tags":[377,378,346],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-364","category-colour","category-da-60-250mm-f4","category-digital-type","category-landscapes","category-pentax-k-3-iii","category-pixel-6a","category-scotland","tag-broch-of-gurness","tag-iron-age","tag-orkney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}