{"id":805,"date":"2013-09-04T20:38:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2018-08-25T08:57:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T07:57:25","slug":"aberdeenshire-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/aberdeenshire-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeenshire 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, after a lie in, we went for a walk at Burn o&#8217;Vat &#8211; a huge meltwater kettle hole left over from the glacial times that shaped most of the landscape in Scotland. Here we found that it wasn&#8217;t just a hole you could look into, but one you could walk into and examine from its bottom &#8211; very impressive!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Burn o'Vat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/9671113731\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3762\/9671113731_28fd5026a8_z.jpg\" alt=\"Burn o'Vat\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From there we took a walk around Lock Kinold &#8211; 4.25miles in total &#8211; past delightful little coves of water lillies and bullrushes, overlooking ancient lake villages, in the shadow of more recent Celtic Cross stones. A really lovely walk indeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Loch Kinold\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/9671114799\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5543\/9671114799_fe15d6f7f4_z.jpg\" alt=\"Loch Kinold\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Loch Kinold\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/9671122639\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3818\/9671122639_d8b033a2b7.jpg\" alt=\"Loch Kinold\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Cletic Cross at Loch Kinold\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/9671132053\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2837\/9671132053_a084976f57_z.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, on what was turning out to be a quiet day after Monday and Tuesday&#8217;s excursions, we paid a visit to the nearby Balronald Wood, where there is a recumbent stone circle with a (later) central cairn. This site is completely overgrown and uncared for, but clearly still visited by those who have respect for it.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Untitled\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/9671273777\/in\/album-72157635353782096\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/4\/3729\/9671273777_0c983c052e_b.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a title=\"Untitled\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/9675798670\/in\/album-72157635353782096\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/8\/7452\/9675798670_498415ef8d_b.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"577\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<em>Click on any picture in these blog posts to see all the photos in the Aberdeenshire set on Flickr<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, after a lie in, we went for a walk at Burn o&#8217;Vat &#8211; a huge meltwater kettle hole left over from the glacial times that shaped most of the landscape in Scotland. Here we found that it wasn&#8217;t just a hole you could look into, but one you could walk into and examine from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/aberdeenshire-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aberdeenshire 3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aberdeenshire2013","category-archaeology","category-journeyman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}