Dr Murray Cook
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Dr Murray Cook
@stirlingdigger.bsky.social
Archaeologist from Stirling interested in Romans, Picts and all things Scottish!
Wowser… check out this bad boy, a residual quartz core from our Pictish fort…. Perhaps 4000 years between them! Quartz as a lithic is ghastly and tends to be missed by Scottish archaeologists…. Our digs lead Scotland in terms of its recovery!
July 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Office today…. A curious crowd and a bit of digging on the Antonine Wall!
June 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
New research on cultivation terraces at Dumyat. open.substack.com/pub/stirling...
June 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
My latest blog is an update on some new results on the Stirling City Wall by Dominic Farrugia
stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/p/scotlands-be…
January 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Office today the amazing Bannockburn House and a 17th century mermaid and a rubbish lion!
January 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Christmas loony dook anyone? Just what you need to work of breakfast!
December 25, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Writing over for today!
December 20, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Office today…. The Gowk’s Stanes near Fintry. A natural stone row next to a watershed, parish boundary and a likely medieval open air court.
December 19, 2024 at 12:42 PM
It was cold in Stirling today!
December 11, 2024 at 5:21 PM
The view from under the 500 year old bell tower at the Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling!
December 6, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Office today, the oldest functioning lade in Scotland on the boundary with the 12th century royal park at Stirling.
November 20, 2024 at 1:59 PM
1st post on this new place… hopeing for good things!
A great project today 1st ever formal recording of Stirling’s city wall the best preserved in Scotland!
November 12, 2024 at 4:55 PM