Dr Murray Cook
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Archaeologist from Stirling interested in Romans, Picts and all things Scottish!
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The Govan Stones
about 13 hours ago
š£š¹š¼ Watch the recordings of Prof. Steve's Dalrymple Lectures! Either click FOLLOW THIS LINK here:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
Or, this link should take you to the recordings of both lectures:
echo360.org.uk/section/e305...
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Dr Tess Machling
4 days ago
"The coins were auctioned off in 57 lots by Noonans Mayfair on Wednesday, November 12, attracting global bidders from the UK, USA, Europe and New Zealand." Honestly, it's relentless...
#Archaeology
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#Detecting
#Treasure
#Coins
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Scotlandās staircase to nowhere, Mr Haldaneās Hermitage! Article in the link!
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Do you fancy a Scottish archaeological adventure in 2026? Join me in a hole and we'll all get dirty!
stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/p/fancy-a-di...
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Fancy a dirty weekend in 2026? ....dig with Dr Murray Cook
why not finally pick up that trowel?
https://stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/p/fancy-a-dirty-weekend-in-2026-dig?r=1nbjpr
5 days ago
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Association for Scottish Literature
7 days ago
Brissit brawnis, and brokin banis, š Stryf, discorde, and waistie wanis, š Crukit in eild, syne halt, withal, š¤ Thir are the bewties of the fute-ball. ā½ āThe Bewties of the Fute-ballā (anon) Middle Scots poem, c.15ā16th century, from the Maitland manuscripts (with added emojis) Also heart attacks
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Dunblane Museum
7 days ago
#Museum30
theme 19 is
#magic
. In 1615, during reign of King James VI whoād written about witches & warlocks in his book "Daemonologie" in 1597 approving & supporting witch hunting, one Watty Bryce of Dunblane was brought to trial accused of being a warlock as "one who hasā¦/š
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James OāDriscoll
8 days ago
Hot off the press, our new paper on the incredible Late Bronze Age nucleated settlement at Brusselstown Ring hillfort, Co. Wicklow, Ireland is freely available to read (
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
@uofglasgow.bsky.social
@antiquity.ac.uk
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Brusselstown Ring: a nucleated settlement agglomeration in prehistoric Ireland | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Brusselstown Ring: a nucleated settlement agglomeration in prehistoric Ireland
https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10247
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A great collaboration, bravo, to all who got this backlog sorted out!
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8 days ago
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Office today Stirlingās Old Town Cemetery, a wee bit gardening! This is the oldest one in the cemetery, dating to the late 16th century. The Gibbās were buried here till the 1950s when they left Stirling to form a disco groupā¦. lol sorry couldnāt resist!
8 days ago
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Includes a 3000 year old Golden eagle talon from Stirling.
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8 days ago
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Alan Lester
10 days ago
Trumpās decision to sue the BBC is exposing the Rabid Rightās hypocrisy. For all their flag waving, its extremists would rather side with a foreign despot who shares their fanatically anti-progressive doctrines than with a British institution that most of their compatriots cherish.
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Iām in this one!
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10 days ago
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My latest blog is about the results of our excavation on what we think was Wallace and de Morayās camp ahead of the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
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Results ....Wallace's Lost Camp
Finding the Scot's Camp ahead of Stirling Bridge.
https://open.substack.com/pub/stirlingarchaeology/p/results-wallaces-lost-camp?r=1nbjpr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
12 days ago
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Aidan O'Sullivan
14 days ago
Hey,
@bsky.app
@jay.bsky.team
@support.bsky.team
Why have you suspended
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
account ? When are you going to explain yourselves, and when are you going to re-install her? Is it because she critcises Trump - has someone asked you to suspend her?
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Dr Tess Machling
13 days ago
āWe are so grateful to our supporters who donated funds allowing us to purchase this ring. We do not have many things in the collection either from this part of Mid Devon, or from that time period.ā Annnnnnnnd again...
#Archaeology
#Detecting
#Treasure
www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
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300-year-old gold ring found engraved with a romantic message
It has found its forever home in Devon
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/300-year-old-gold-ring-10638708
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Greg Jenner
16 days ago
Obviously, itās been a tough day for the BBC. Big organisations, working under big pressure, will sadly make errors But I still feel huge pride in hosting a BBC podcast, and having previously spent 11 years making a world-renowned childrenās show that no other broadcaster would have made
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my latest blog is some late Halloween fun....a cautionary tale about the need to do research! Stirling and Aberdeen's Hotel of Death!
open.substack.com/pub/stirling...
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Stirling and Aberdeen's Hotel of Death!
Some late Halloween fun and a cautionary tale on the need to do research!
https://open.substack.com/pub/stirlingarchaeology/p/stirling-and-aberdeens-hotel-of-death?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
19 days ago
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Dr Murray Cook
National Library of Scotland
22 days ago
Did you know Mary Shelley once had to correct Sir Walter Scott for crediting her novel, Frankenstein, to her husband? š For one day only, see this story on paper at the National Library: ā”ļø Mary Shelley's letter to Sir Walter Scott ā”ļø Rare early editions & items from our archives ā”ļø and more!
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Lewis Goodall
22 days ago
Train worker hero credited with saving lives in the Huntingdon knife attack named as Samir Zitouni.
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David Connolly BAJR
22 days ago
It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help. Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology
survey.app.do/archaeologis...
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BAJR SURVEY PIR III: ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN FINANCIAL CRISIS
Inflation, energy costs, fuel costs and food are becoming increasingly expensive - this anonymous survey will help to understand the level of Financial Crisis we are in as archaeologists - as individu...
https://survey.app.do/archaeologists-in-financial-crisis-bajr-poverty-impact
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A great occasion and a tour de force presentation from
@nts-archaeology.bsky.social
on the amazing Pioneering Spirit project!
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24 days ago
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Dr Murray Cook
NTS-Archaeology
25 days ago
Looking forward to speaking at the
#StirlingRocks
conference tomorrow about our
#PioneeringSpirit
whisky project with a wee dash of Stirlingshire sites thrown in to the mix.
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My latest blog is all about Balfron's first ever research dig....Woodend Motte!
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RESULTS....Excavations at Woodend Motte, Balfron. If not a motte..then what?
Initial results from Balfron's first ever research excavation!
https://open.substack.com/pub/stirlingarchaeology/p/resultsexcavations-at-woodend-motte?r=1nbjpr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
26 days ago
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NTS-Archaeology
26 days ago
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Culloden Battlefield finds could be evidence of 'valiant action'
Archaeologists believe the musket balls are from a part of the battle that allowed Jacobites to escape.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2yr02kj3do
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Dr Murray Cook
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum
29 days ago
Earlier this year, we worked with a lovely family to record Private Walter Scott of the Sutherland Highlander's story, and made a digital record of objects that belonged to him. Caitlin takes a look at Private Scott's life and the history of rum in the regiment here:
argylls.co.uk/spirit-of-th...
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Dr Tess Machling
29 days ago
The piece where I get to say everything that's bugging me about the world of detecting & archaeology & ask - why are we not more concerned about this? (Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.)
#Archaeology
#Detecting
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bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...
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The system is broken, so why are we not more concerned?
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) ā the detectorist-facing branch of archaeology ā whicā¦
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/the-system-is-broken-so-why-are-we-not-more-concerned/
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My blog explores archaeology and heritage events round Stirling!
open.substack.com/pub/stirling...
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The Diary - upcoming news and events from 27th October onwards.
off to Eyemouth for my latest ever swim!
https://open.substack.com/pub/stirlingarchaeology/p/the-diary-upcoming-news-and-events-52a?r=1nbjpr&utm_medium=ios
30 days ago
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Featuring me!
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about 1 month ago
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Dr Murray Cook
Association for Scottish Literature
about 1 month ago
My brother is skull and skeleton now empty of mind behind the brow in ribs and pelvis empty space bone-naked without a face⦠āWilliam Montgomerie, āEpitaphā For 2nd Officer James S. Montgomerie of the S.S. Carsbreck, torpedoed off Gibraltar, 24th October 1941
#poem
#WW2
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Dr Murray Cook
Association for Scottish Literature
about 1 month ago
As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane; The tane unto the tāother say, āWhere sall we gang and dine to-day?ā āThe Twa Corbiesā, first published in Scottās MINSTRELSY vol. 2 (1810), is a darker, grimmer,
#Scots
version of the English ballad āThe Three Ravensā
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My latest blog is all about Scotlandās first map!
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Bending Scotland to suit the Roman Empire.....our First Map.
The Geography of Ptolemy and why sometimes experts are wrong!
https://open.substack.com/pub/scottisharchaeology/p/bending-scotland-to-suit-the-roman?r=1nbjpr&utm_medium=ios
about 1 month ago
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Was this my Boromir momentā¦. One dues not simply walk round Abbey Craig without thinking about vitrified hillforts?
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about 1 month ago
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My latest blog explores medieval fish traps and salmon over exploitation and the inevitable conflicts!
stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/p/stirlings-...
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Stirling's Medieval Salmon Wars
Overexploitation of our fishery stock
https://stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/p/stirlings-medieval-salmon-wars
about 1 month ago
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The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum
about 1 month ago
Our next Quiet Time is this Saturday (18th October) from 9.30-10.30am. This is aimed at people with additional sensory needs. Video screens, interactives and sound will be turned down and a quiet space will be available outside the museum. For more information:
argylls.co.uk/events/quiet...
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The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum
about 2 months ago
We are now on our Winter Season hours and the museum will be open from 9.30 until 5pm, 7 days a week. We will welcome our last visitors into the building at 4.30pm each day. The only planned closures during these months will be Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
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The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum
2 months ago
At the museum, we remember, 'The Forgotten War' and the men who served with the 1st Bn in Korea. 75 years ago today, the Battle of Hill 282 took place - a notable event in Argyll history. Caitlin's blog focuses on the Argylls in Korea, and you can read this here:
argylls.co.uk/never-forget...
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Never Forgetting the āForgotten Warā ā The Argyll Sutherland Highlanders Museum
https://argylls.co.uk/never-forgetting-the-forgotten-war/
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my latest blog...results from what may be the last hillfort built in Scotland and the birth of Kippen!
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The Birth of Kippen....Results
Recent Results from our dig at Keir Hill of Dasher
https://substack.com/@stirlingarchaeology/note/p-173644152?r=1nbjpr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
2 months ago
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A wee bit my recent dig!
www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/se...
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University spot could be linked to William Wallace | About | University of Stirling
University spot could be linked to William Wallace
https://www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/september-2025-news/university-spot-could-be-linked-to-william-wallace/
2 months ago
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Iāll be digging in Cowaneās House, Stirling all next week⦠22nd to 27th September 10-3. The house will be open to visitors! Come for a nosy. Weāre also doing a late night Thursday opening for those who work during the day!
2 months ago
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All are always welcome on our digs! What will you find?
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2 months ago
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Get FREE hands on experience of Scotlandās Fabby archaeology. For details follow my blog
stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/p/the-diary-...
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The Diary - upcoming news and events from 15th September onwards.
Exhausted again
https://stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/p/the-diary-upcoming-news-and-events-a45
2 months ago
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My latest blogā¦. A Neolithic tourist from Yorkshire in Stirling!
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Results.....More on Our Neolithic Tourist from Yorkshire!
Lost for 6000 years before we found it again!
https://open.substack.com/pub/stirlingarchaeology/p/resultsmore-on-our-neolithic-tourist?r=1nbjpr&utm_medium=ios
3 months ago
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Andy Wightman
3 months ago
An encouraging example of how assets are being added to a common good fund. It is often assumed that they are historic relics. They are not - they are living, dynamic investment funds that should be expanded for the benefit of folk in Scotland's burghs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New Haddington council homes to be built - thanks to 85-year-old bequest
Solicitor John Richardson left money to fund six new homes in Haddington when he died in 1940.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2djwgdpydlo
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The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum
3 months ago
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum and Historic Scotland partnered with the Foundation Apprenticeship in Creative and Digital Media students at Forth Valley College, Stirling, to create a video based on the Cruachan Story. Lauren writes about their experience:
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The Cruachan Story animation project ā The Argyll Sutherland Highlanders Museum
Return To Landing Page
https://argylls.co.uk/the-cruachan-story-animation-project/
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Stirling Highland Games
4 months ago
Buy a ticket to Stirling Highland Games š Enjoy a day out at a traditional Scottish event. 𤩠Lindsay O'Donnell š
#GamesChieftain
šļø Sat Aug 16th š Traditional Highland Games š 60 Scottish Traders š Artists šļø 20% off entry tickets onlineĀ ā”ļø
https://f.mtr.cool/xhawfxjkgk
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My latest blog is all about FREE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIGS round Stirling!
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Fancy a dirty weekend in 2025? UPDATED AGAIN ....dig with Dr Murray Cook
and a wee update on our lost Celtic Cemetery!
https://open.substack.com/pub/stirlingarchaeology/p/fancy-a-dirty-weekend-in-2025-updated-629?r=1nbjpr&utm_medium=ios
4 months ago
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Amazing to become part of history!
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4 months ago
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My latest blog explores the unrecorded destruction of a large portion of Scotlandās past!
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Scotland's overlooked and destroyed past?
Some thoughts on struck quartz
https://open.substack.com/pub/stirlingarchaeology/p/scotlands-destroyed-and-overlooked?r=1nbjpr&utm_medium=ios
4 months ago
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Annie Leymarie
4 months ago
At last š Now: UK!
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Surely one of the best wee museums in Scotland?
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4 months ago
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