My latest blog is all about understanding a 1300 year old insult! stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/p/barbarians...

Why not make your New Year’s resolution to go on an archaeological adventure? open.substack.com/pub/stirling...

💥📰🎉 It's the first A WHOLE LOT OF HISTORY for 2026! Happy New Year; we hope you enjoy these stories ⤵️ ⚫️ Etruscan Greek Bust 🏛🏺 ⚫️ Early Medieval Welsh Nuns ☠️ ⚫️ Medieval Container Ship 🚢 ⚫️ WW2 Star Spangled Banner 🇺🇸 open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

📆 It's now 2026, which means it is over 50 years since 2025. Hats off to the @natlibscot.bsky.social Map Library for getting the latest batch of out-of-copyright large scale OS maps online already! maps.nls.uk/additions/#191 🗺️🎉

Happy New Year from us all at Stirling Highland Games Grab your discounted 2026 Early Bird Tickets now at www.stirlinghighlandgames.com 😍 Highland Games comps 🚚 Traders, Street Food, Craft Bars 🎭 Creative Arts 🗓️ Sat 15th August ➡️ 10:00 to 17:00 📍 Stirling Sports Village  #visitscotland #shg26

Happy New Year! My latest blog explore Roman Treasure found in Drymen! open.substack.com/pub/scottish...

@argyllsmuseum.bsky.social A guest blog this week all about an early 19th century Scottish Soldier stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/publish/post...

And don’t forget the vitrified fort round the base… potentially occupied during the Viking invasion of 875 which led to the collapse of Pictland.

Breaking news the translation of the Greenloaning Stone and the first writing and name from Scotland! stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/p/results-th...

Tis' the season! Join some of the team in the museum for some crafts based on things you can find in the museum on Sunday 7th December from 11am. This is aimed at younger children but we do ask that an adult accompany them.

My latest blog is all about brochs and duns and how to spot the difference! substack.com/@stirlingarc...

You’ve got my vote!

My latest blog is all about Scotland’s ‘first broch’! open.substack.com/pub/stirling...

🗣📹📼 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...

"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 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure #Coins

Scotland’s staircase to nowhere, Mr Haldane’s Hermitage! Article in the link! x.com/revscotcultu...

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...

Brissit brawnis, and brokin banis, 🚑 Stryf, discorde, and waistie wanis, 🚔 Crukit in eild, syne halt, withal, 🤕 Thir are the bewties of the fute-ball. ⚽ “The Bewties of the Fute-ball” (anon) Middle Scots poem, c.15–16th century, from the Maitland manuscripts (with added emojis) Also heart attacks

#Museum30 theme 19 is #magic. In 1615, during reign of King James VI who’d 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 has…/👇

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...). @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @antiquity.ac.uk

A great collaboration, bravo, to all who got this backlog sorted out!

Office today Stirling’s Old Town Cemetery, a wee bit gardening! This is the oldest one in the cemetery, dating to the late 16th century. The Gibb’s were buried here till the 1950s when they left Stirling to form a disco group…. lol sorry couldn’t resist!

Includes a 3000 year old Golden eagle talon from Stirling.

Trump’s decision to sue the BBC is exposing the Rabid Right’s 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.

I’m in this one!

My latest blog is about the results of our excavation on what we think was Wallace and de Moray’s camp ahead of the Battle of Stirling Bridge. open.substack.com/pub/stirling...

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?

“We 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.” Annnnnnnnd again... #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

Obviously, it’s 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 children’s show that no other broadcaster would have made

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...

Did you know Mary Shelley once had to correct Sir Walter Scott for crediting her novel, Frankenstein, to her husband? 🔍 For one day only, see this story on paper at the National Library: ➡️ Mary Shelley's letter to Sir Walter Scott ➡️ Rare early editions & items from our archives ➡️ and more!

Train worker hero credited with saving lives in the Huntingdon knife attack named as Samir Zitouni.

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...

A great occasion and a tour de force presentation from @nts-archaeology.bsky.social on the amazing Pioneering Spirit project!

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.

My latest blog is all about Balfron's first ever research dig....Woodend Motte! open.substack.com/pub/stirling...

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...

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 🏺 bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...

My blog explores archaeology and heritage events round Stirling! open.substack.com/pub/stirling...

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My brother is skull and skeleton now empty of mind behind the brow in ribs and pelvis empty space bone-naked without a face… —William Montgomerie, “Epitaph” For 2nd Officer James S. Montgomerie of the S.S. Carsbreck, torpedoed off Gibraltar, 24th October 1941 #poem #WW2 asls.org.uk/publications...

As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane; The tane unto the t’other say, “Where sall we gang and dine to-day?” “The Twa Corbies”, first published in Scott’s MINSTRELSY vol. 2 (1810), is a darker, grimmer, #Scots version of the English ballad “The Three Ravens”

My latest blog is all about Scotland’s first map! open.substack.com/pub/scottish...

Was this my Boromir moment…. One dues not simply walk round Abbey Craig without thinking about vitrified hillforts?

My latest blog explores medieval fish traps and salmon over exploitation and the inevitable conflicts! stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/p/stirlings-...

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...

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.

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...

my latest blog...results from what may be the last hillfort built in Scotland and the birth of Kippen! substack.com/@stirlingarc...