{"id":1937,"date":"2022-11-20T15:39:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T15:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2022-11-20T15:39:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T15:39:32","slug":"the-story-behind-the-timber-of-old-wick-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/20\/the-story-behind-the-timber-of-old-wick-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind the Timber of Old Wick Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>In five short videos Drs Will Wyeth, Coralie Mills and Hamish Darrah look at the project funded by both the Castle Studies Trust and Historic Environment Scotland to date a timber found at Old Wick Castle, Caithness, and in turn help us understand better this little understood castle. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first video Dr Will Wyeth gives the background to the project:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introduction to the Old Wick Timber Dating Project Results\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mUym9oO8Ygs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/bDEO0H\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second video Hamish Darrah gives more detail on the wood they found<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Castle of Old Wick Timber - More Details\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/snd92_6GZEk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While in the third one, Coralie Mills looks at how they dated the timber<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What was the Date of the Timber at Old Wick?\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B-RWUZr7tRU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In video four, Will looks at what the dating of the timber means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Does the Surprising Date of the Old Wick Timber Mean?\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rEDIDSFyWWA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before summing up in video five about what the significance of the research is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is the Significance of the Results of the Old Wick Timber?\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WQ4Pj4VPZF4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/bDEO0H\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/donate.kindlink.com\/castle-studies-trust\/2245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donate to support our work<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In five short videos Drs Will Wyeth, Coralie Mills and Hamish Darrah look at the project funded by both the Castle Studies Trust and Historic Environment Scotland to date a timber found at Old Wick Castle, Caithness, and in turn help us understand better this little understood castle. In the first video Dr Will Wyeth &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/20\/the-story-behind-the-timber-of-old-wick-castle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Story Behind the Timber of Old Wick Castle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[265,1],"tags":[370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"http:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castlestudiestrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}