{"id":26178,"date":"2009-03-18T21:23:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T21:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/18\/scotland-police-totally-screw\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T21:23:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T21:23:30","slug":"scotland-police-totally-screw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/scotland-police-totally-screw\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Police Totally Screw The Pooch"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Police officers in northern Scotland have been accused of vandalising a Bronze Age site through ignorance after they removed bones and textiles from the 4,000-year-old burial chamber, apparently because they thought they were investigating a crime scene.<\/p>\n<p>The burial chamber, or cist, was discovered intact, in a field near Oykel Bridge in Sutherland. The area is rich in Bronze Age remains, but this find was of huge importance to archaeologists. Unlike the vast chambered cairns of the earlier Neolithic period, burials from the metal-working people of the Bronze Age are modest affairs with artefacts such as pottery most commonly found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/scotland\/article5927895.ece\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers in northern Scotland have been accused of vandalising a Bronze Age site through ignorance after they removed bones and textiles from the 4,000-year-old burial chamber, apparently because they thought they were investigating a crime scene. The burial chamber, or cist, was discovered intact, in a field near Oykel Bridge in Sutherland. The area &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/scotland-police-totally-screw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scotland Police Totally Screw The Pooch<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[112],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Oe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}