{"id":353,"date":"2005-01-15T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2005-01-15T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-15T23:07:00","slug":"353","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Northumberland rock art<\/strong><\/p>\n

An elegant Web site<\/a> of Bronze Age rock art from Northumberland, in northeastern England. Pagan by definition. I would love to see the same thing done for southeastern Colorado, with our mysterious “Ogham” and not-so-mysterious cowboy\/sheepherder rock carvings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Northumberland rock art An elegant Web site of Bronze Age rock art from Northumberland, in northeastern England. Pagan by definition. 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