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.
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