{"id":21523,"date":"2019-02-01T15:58:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T15:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=21523"},"modified":"2019-02-01T15:58:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T15:58:14","slug":"ancient-aberdeenshire-stone-circle-found-to-be-replica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=21523","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ancient&#8217; Aberdeenshire stone circle found to be replica"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/bbc_news_010219.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21524\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/bbc_news_010219.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"300\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a>An Aberdeenshire stone circle initially thought to be thousands of years old has been identified as a modern replica, as reported by the BBC!<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BBC News writes:<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the site at the parish of Leochel-Cushnie found the stones to be about 20 years old. It was originally thought to be the site of a recumbent stone circle &#8211; until the man who built it came forward. The findings sparked excitement among experts and were widely reported.<\/p>\n<p>They were initially celebrated as an authentic recumbent stone circle&#8230;. Further archaeological analysis of the stones was being conducted when a former owner of the farm [said] he had built the stone circle in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Ackerman, historic environment record assistant at Aberdeenshire Council, said the development was \u2018disappointing\u2019, but hoped the site would still be appreciated\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-46946652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Aberdeenshire stone circle initially thought to be thousands of years old has been identified as a modern replica, as reported by the BBC!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21525,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21523\/revisions\/21525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}