{"id":6379,"date":"2018-10-01T14:38:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2018-10-01T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:38:50","slug":"islay-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/2018\/10\/01\/islay-seal\/","title":{"rendered":"Islay Seal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/ihsp\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0099-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/ihsp\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0102-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/>P67 at Port Ellen have been recreating a letter from the time of Dunyvaig castle. They had to imagine a letter that might have been written and had a seal attached.\u00a0 This is because there was a seal from 1593 discovered at this years dig at the castle; seals were used with wax to seal letters to make them official.\u00a0 We have been using a seal in class to add to our letters, which we have aged using cold tea.\u00a0 We melted wax in a spoon over a candle and then used a tree of life seal to imprint in the wax.\u00a0 We think they look very authentic!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/ihsp\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0091-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/ihsp\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0101-e1538400069898-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; P67 at Port Ellen have been recreating a letter from the time of Dunyvaig castle. They had to imagine a letter that might have been written and had a seal attached.&nbsp; This is because there was a seal from 1593 discovered at this years dig at the castle; seals were used &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379","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\/1891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6380,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions\/6380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}