{"id":96,"date":"2014-02-27T09:20:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T09:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/?page_id=96"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:49:24","slug":"96-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/","title":{"rendered":"It begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willowford-Farm-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-91\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willowford-Farm-11-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Willowford Farm 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willowford-Farm-11-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willowford-Farm-11-1024x653.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Around the year AD425 the garrison commander of a Roman fort on Hadrian&#8217;s Wall converted the stone granary to a hall, with a hearth at one end and perhaps sleeping accommodation at the other.\u00a0 The last army pay wagon has failed to turn up.\u00a0 No governor has visited these parts in a generation.\u00a0 It is time to take matters into his own hands.\u00a0 Here the commander can store the produce gathered from the surrounding farms to feed his troops; here he can feast the local nobility, house his family\u00a0and maintain the trappings of imperial grandeur in a world shrunk by civil war, barbarian incursion and economic failure.\u00a0 Here, in the centre of Britannia, the Dark Ages begin..<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Facebook entry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bernicehasfriends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LandsOfEogainFestival?src=hash\">@Berniciantweets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Folow us on Instagram <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">@friendsofbernice<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bernician Studies Group is a registered charity no 1170897<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the year AD425 the garrison commander of a Roman fort on Hadrian&#8217;s Wall converted the stone granary to a hall, with a hearth at one end and perhaps sleeping accommodation at the other.\u00a0 The last army pay wagon has failed to turn up.\u00a0 No governor has visited these parts in a generation.\u00a0 It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bernicianstudies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}