A Scottish heritage charity for people interested in archaeology, the natural heritage, and stories of the Stirling district.
Summer Programme 2026 Now Available — field visits, excursions and excavations from April to September
Founded in the autumn of 1878 by Alexander Croall and a small group of naturalists, historians, and antiquarians, the Stirling Field & Archaeological Society has spent nearly 150 years studying, recording, and celebrating the heritage of the Stirling district.
Today we are a growing community of members — mostly amateur — who share a passion for understanding the past. We organise a programme of winter lectures, summer field visits, and excavations, and will be creating a digital archive of photographs, maps, field notebooks, and artefacts stretching back to our Victorian origins.
Whether you are a lifelong local, a student of history, or simply curious about what lies beneath the landscape, you are very welcome here.
A winter programme of illustrated talks by leading archaeologists, society members and historians, held at St Ninians Old Parish Halls. Free and open to all.
Summer excursions to castles, hillforts, Roman sites, and historic landscapes across Stirlingshire and beyond. Hands-on archaeology for everyone.
View EventsA growing collection of photographs, maps, field notebooks, and artefact records documenting the district's heritage from the 1870s to the present day.
Explore Archive
After lockdown — and after a chance LiDAR plot in a 2024 talk — we revisited the cobbled area. What we’d assumed was an eighteenth-century midden may be hiding something a great deal older.
Covid stopped us digging in 2020, so we spent the time in the archives instead. Pont, Blaeu, Roy, Grassom, Fleming and a long-dead Society Secretary tell a more complicated story than the one we’d been chasing.
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