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Were the heads of dead children really a memorial<\/a>?<\/p>\n

In the depths of the cave, there’s the first glimpse of the trapped pool of water– this was the bridge to another world, the high altar of a Bronze Age basilica.<\/em><\/p>\n

Any BBC Scotland viewers, let me know what you think of the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Were the heads of dead children really a memorial? In the depths of the cave, there’s the first glimpse of the trapped pool of water– this was the bridge to another world, the high altar of a Bronze Age basilica. Any BBC Scotland viewers, let me know what you think of the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20,5,17],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-paganism","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-cL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1044,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1044","url_meta":{"origin":791,"position":0},"title":"The Invention of Scotland…","author":"Chas S. 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