{"id":3858,"date":"2025-07-10T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2025-12-10T08:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:22:29","slug":"east-lomond-iron-age-fort-10-jul-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/east-lomond-iron-age-fort-10-jul-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"East Lomond Iron Age Fort (10 Jul 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I knew there was a <a href=\"https:\/\/fifecoastandcountrysidetrust.co.uk\/pins\/east-lomond-hillfort\/\">Hill Fort<\/a> up there, but not that there had been excavations every summer for many years. It was built by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Picts\">Picts <\/a>who were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/scotland\/history\/articles\/kingdom_of_the_picts\/\">replaced by the Gaels<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Hill Fort has appeared several times in the media since the excavations started, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abdn.ac.uk\/news\/24685\/\">Aberdeen University<\/a> (who supervise the digs), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/past-times\/5312812\/east-lomond-fife-pictish-village-archaeology\/\">Fife Courier<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn02xde4yeeo\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The excavations are on the same small plateaux to the south of the summit that the trig point is, hence looking down on it in the photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"973\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20250710_081108859_0973.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20250710_081108859_0973.jpg 973w, https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20250710_081108859_0973-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20250710_081108859_0973-508x382.jpg 508w, https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20250710_081108859_0973-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20250710_081108859_0973-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20250710_081108859_0973-48x36.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/><\/figure>\n<ul id=\"wp-image-\" class=\"exif\"><li class=\"shutter_speed\">Shutter speed:\u00a01\/850s<\/li><li class=\"aperture\">Aperture:\u00a0&#402;\/1.9<\/li><li class=\"iso\">ISO:\u00a045<\/li><li class=\"focal_length\">Focal length:\u00a05.43mm<\/li><li class=\"created_timestamp\">Taken:\u00a010 July, 2025 08:07<\/li><li class=\"camera\">Camera:\u00a0Pixel 8a<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew there was a Hill Fort up there, but not that there had been excavations every summer for many years. It was built by the Picts who were replaced by the Gaels. This Hill Fort has appeared several times in the media since the excavations started, including Aberdeen University (who supervise the digs), the&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3859,"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":[414,502,43,44,397,23],"tags":[327,47,495],"class_list":["post-3858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-414","category-archaeology","category-colour","category-digital-type","category-pixel-8a","category-scotland","tag-east-lomond","tag-fife","tag-iron-age-hill-fort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858","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=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fifescapes.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}