{"id":189,"date":"2024-12-21T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2025-02-01T21:55:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T21:55:33","slug":"durn-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/2024\/12\/21\/durn-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Durn Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was a lovely solstice walk up durn hill for the first time, if a touch on the windy side. Getting there meant a drive via the carnyx find site and past Gaulcross. I parked at the quarry which is disused but it looks like Aberdeenshire council sometimes uses the site for storage, so don&#8217;t block anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First off, I explored the quarry which reminded me of the Ringmer quarry where I cremated both Sprot and genghis. But with more gorse. Then straight up the the hill, following a grassy track that soon hit a gate at a field and what looked like a disasembled recumbent stone circle &#8211; with pictish markings on one of the stones!!?!? As a notable archaeologist once opined: &#8220;You only see what your eyes want to see, How can life be what you want it to be?&#8221; and so on.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I later researched if that&#8217;s a RSC and there&#8217;s nothing sooooo. In ieder geval it has a lovely view over to Sandend and Portsoy. Straight up the hill again and soon I was at the top, which was very windy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazing views! Good for the soul. The <a href=\"https:\/\/online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk\/smrpub\/master\/detail.aspx?refno=NJ56SE0003\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk\/smrpub\/master\/detail.aspx?refno=NJ56SE0003\">current thinking <\/a>is there are remains of either an incomplete hilldfort or an early one, but why not a ritual centre where precious quartz was quarried? Especially since quartz can have seams of gold! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a lovely solstice walk up durn hill for the first time, if a touch on the windy side. Getting there meant a drive via the carnyx find site and past Gaulcross. I parked at the quarry which is disused but it looks like Aberdeenshire council sometimes uses the site for storage, so don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[47,45],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excursion","tag-durn-hill","tag-solstice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mujinga.net\/berryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}