{"id":223,"date":"2010-12-10T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T11:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/OurLearningBlog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2010-12-10T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T11:47:03","slug":"carved-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/2010\/12\/10\/carved-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"Carved Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/OurLearningBlog\/files\/2010\/12\/100_0323.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/port-ellen-celtic-w\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/public\/peps\/uploads\/sites\/1008\/2016\/04\/Port-ellen-celtic-w.png\" data-orig-size=\"1000,198\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Port ellen celtic w\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/glow-prod-ab.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/ab\/public\/peps\/uploads\/sites\/1008\/2016\/04\/Port-ellen-celtic-w-300x59.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&amp;X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjECAaCWV1LXdlc3QtMSJHMEUCICzuxs%2F37I12mu0grlA0IoILMZoZtjDz4J8bWTEW%2FiO1AiEA%2FMaFPCiMQseLnAKZJlYQo3UgHPOxNpUVTXCjDujxA0wqwgUI6f%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FARAFGgwyNzM1NzAxOTU0MzMiDJLFTpLqiqRWbTH%2F7SqWBRWEl3jfswZNS8ehchu3XxIlcTTVg6Cw2FZODsFFTmSJDjDBIYYMYTLsC7NUkV5YenSQJvUNavkjEYhXfj6%2FzIEHBKlLQW6bbuKgtCW%2FrPMWdyt1q6UK1KRd3aVvSwUPAZxWkQhGBGJf%2FwrStb2Dzq3rmtv%2B2p4iLFVremFM2KwCKeHXu9XEtSkypvBEZT7MKTUvPSULNiXfBIq8qZFEHXuNKwh6z%2B97x%2B5XhXUueJKTa8zFTUHqaRLTFtNfFtCGDx1y0iZwOhpH02khrrR2PRz7X9pTM4tZtuqVLE8a0OSKvHqICMK%2FPQ0V69H7R%2FQ2SUO9LBmSY5aU7zyjgl9AYwEWiRnR%2FyKRtPqRyujY6DX8wmlJfGSofKDD3fAFMJeyiRzn6BajWEkSpKCqidkA26qQjdoWxjljhg1Swy3H5Yo9%2FOYP7uNQ%2FJy9%2F%2BxubfzTjW13iQAqO61mkbXGraDcwNGzWbIJmI7TUUoG4VBUP3w%2FoDKdpCnooCmqKtBnN99WeXJ9kYNVMaiOyk3BB3BfHeBNyW7nsReoyp8%2FmibivV7jlTTDYlTRoTC3Av%2BWR1DIoMV3FXKuhwP7MvJIwHYo2N38aDwlszKDPtge5J1vf%2FXt4ts3HgXTLEysVgequhjhDRj1IXEWpQYkdGOW%2BRzNaxNQpVfBlVVXWQKJblDRu3xFX5BTjdQdKJPhHbfwEsktsm0piPqT9D87hEyPQ%2B32dl9e9X66UJAR2PIAuWbFvbzvmOaI%2BsueLbFsS4KMaiDhaRY6bGsTrnqXR5VO%2ByR0%2B4JLKJesLE5ikRLJKNA4jdaSs573elP5XLaQH9UhPXGk0WDZ8ecQFDesM1TgPUgxAmGfYYNMinHx8b06VhgnVqBiWy4HxetaMMvE1M4GOrEBYsAYj2WMNVSC0rPdodLcm2FqzjxdmZ8NZPPcWKjeP07Mcs3c2MxKl1pP4jKocsTp03n55D1uonCpXto8%2FNNfR0sWti60mI9BXMXXb7aFzg8PrWIqltadhfCAEHSxZOFm3K9tLuZ0pij42hH4bg9RUlyroXpVxXT%2FZH9vuqPJLQ1mMMbhU10wCeNJnJMHo0M7RGdaQHt8BLH6LO5Ny9XHONHZsIEWY2fu8sSzg%2BL8vRld&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=ASIAT7MQN47UU7K3OWVJ%2F20260407%2Feu-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Date=20260407T154030Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=900&amp;X-Amz-Signature=e11ac388aefe238a15f0ffc8074ab8e28b654ab6f9db0f8020a93f238df398b8\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/public\/peps\/uploads\/sites\/1008\/2016\/04\/Port-ellen-celtic-w.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43 alignleft\" title=\"100_0323\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/OurLearningBlog\/files\/2010\/12\/100_0323-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">A long time ago people in Scotland carved stones instead of writing.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t know why they did it.\u00a0 Perhaps it was to mark a grave or tell people about something that happened.\u00a0 All the stones have different symbols on them, each of them mean something different.\u00a0 The Picts carved lots\u00a0 of mythical beasts on their stones.\u00a0 You can find lots of carved stones all over Scotland. In Orkney there is the ring of Brodga and there is a big hole in the middle of the stones.\u00a0 Some people think a carved mirror means a woman. Carved stones are one of the only things we can get information from that time, because all the other materials have rotted away.\u00a0 The Gaels carved stones had crosses on them because they were Christian.\u00a0 Here are some we made in class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Eilidh and Alicia<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/OurLearningBlog\/files\/2010\/12\/100_0336.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42 aligncenter\" title=\"100_0336\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/OurLearningBlog\/files\/2010\/12\/100_0336-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago people in Scotland carved stones instead of writing.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t know why they did it.\u00a0 Perhaps it was to mark a grave or tell people about something that happened.\u00a0 All the stones have different symbols on them, each of them mean something different.\u00a0 The Picts carved lots\u00a0 of mythical beasts on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/2010\/12\/10\/carved-stones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carved Stones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[217,208,216,209,215,213,212,214],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","tag-art","tag-celtic","tag-clay","tag-crosses","tag-gaelic","tag-gaels","tag-picts","tag-stones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}