{"id":2135,"date":"2022-07-01T23:43:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T23:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/07\/01\/hot-weather-dries-up-swamp-uncovers-ancient-fort\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T23:43:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T23:43:35","slug":"hot-weather-dries-up-swamp-uncovers-ancient-fort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=2135","title":{"rendered":"Hot weather dries up swamp, uncovers ancient fort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">An historical group in Northern Ireland was instrumental in helping to discover an ancient man-made island settlement near Lough Neagh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The discovery was made by members of the Loup Historical Society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Hot weather during lockdown dried up a swamp area in south Londonderry that had been concealing the man-made island, known as a crannog.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Archaeologists say it is potentially significant because it is made of stone, whereas most crannogs that have been found in Northern Ireland are made out of wood or clay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video journalist: Niall McCracken<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-61986065?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] An historical group in Northern Ireland was instrumental in helping to discover an ancient man-made island settlement near Lough Neagh. The discovery was made by members of the Loup &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}