Dr Murray Cook
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Dr Murray Cook
@stirlingdigger.bsky.social
Archaeologist from Stirling interested in Romans, Picts and all things Scottish!
Scotland’s staircase to nowhere, Mr Haldane’s Hermitage! Article in the link!

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November 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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!
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Includes a 3000 year old Golden eagle talon from Stirling.
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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
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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