News, research updates, and articles from the Stirling Field & Archaeological Society.
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.
A second season opened a metre west of the 2018 trench — and turned up something completely unexpected: a cobbled surface, a ring of large stones, and a sudden rush of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century pottery.
In 2017 the Society went looking for a long-lost castle in a Cambusbarron wood. We found rocks, a whetstone and a tanged-iron knife — and a puzzle. Paul Sorowka tells the story of the first season.
Dr Tertia Barnett's captivating lecture on Scottish rock art unveiled the secrets of Scotland's oldest artistic tradition, engaging Society members with tales of Neolithic creativity.
From volcanic eruptions to glacial sculpting, from Mesolithic whale hunters to 18th-century peat clearers — how the Forth Valley landscape was formed and transformed over millennia.
From Agricola's legions to the Antonine Wall, the Stirling area was a strategic corridor for Rome's conquest of Scotland. Yet remarkable gaps remain in our understanding of how they crossed the Forth.
How a dog walk in the Stirlingshire hills led to the discovery of a prehistoric roundhouse — and the Society’s first excavation of the modern era.
From Roman forts to Iron Age brochs, our 2026 summer programme offers eleven outings across central Scotland — plus five weeks of community excavation at Bannockburn House.
A Jacobite mansion, a hidden mine shaft and a musket ball — how SFAS volunteers are uncovering centuries of history in the grounds of one of Stirling's most remarkable buildings.
As the Society approaches its 150th anniversary in 2028, we trace its remarkable journey from a circular to 'a few gentlemen' in 1878 to the thriving community it is today.
Our new season of winter lectures brings a varied programme of talks on Stirling's archaeology and history.
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