{"id":429812,"date":"2025-09-16T22:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/429812\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T22:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:16:23","slug":"forgotten-royal-castle-uncovered-at-finlaggan-on-islay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/429812\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Forgotten&#8217; royal castle uncovered at Finlaggan on Islay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Archaeologists have spent almost 30 years studying Finlaggan to gain a better understanding of its place in the kingdom of the Lords of the Isles, and the site&#8217;s earlier history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Remains of a castle were uncovered and dated to the 12th and 13th centuries, before the lords rose to power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The castle had a rectangular stone tower similar to a keep, a type of heavily fortified stronghold found in castles in Carlisle, Bamburgh and Lancaster in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tower had living quarters, courtyards, kitchens, a great hall where feasting took place and a chapel with a burial ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Archaeologists have spent almost 30 years studying Finlaggan to gain a better understanding of its place in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-429812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-scotland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115216291275214246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}