Let me be your guide to our amazing past
Archaeology Month
I hope you will forgive a little bit of self promotion this week?
September, which is just round the corner is Archaeology Month in Scotland which allows the public to find out about their local past for free!
I tend to organise digs, lectures and walks. Obviously with Covid-19, this has been curtailed, some events have been cancelled and you won’t see leaflets around the town.
But some of the open-air walks are happening (with social distancing of course) and there are a series of recorded lectures available on line (recorded with the wonderful people from Bannockburn House).
So what is on offer?
Well three sets of volunteers want to welcome you to their open-air sites, where they have been busy looking after and protecting our shared past (all are wonderful people and if they have buckets please give them a donation): Gillies Hill where a lost garden has been rediscovered; Logie Old Graveyard, where over a thousand years of history (including Viking hogbacks) is being loved and cherished; Old Kilmadock, perhaps the most beautiful of all of Stirling’s cemeteries and a cradle of Scottish Christianity.
For those in the city I will be doing two guided walks: firstly, exploring Sir William Wallace’s greatest victory, with a guided walk across the Stirling Bridge Battlefield on the actual anniversary. Secondly, we will walk round the city walls (the best preserved in Scotland) and reveal a newly-discovered defensive tower!
I hope to see some of you and if you would like further details please email me: cookm@stirling.gov.uk. If however, you are still shielding, fingers crossed for next year but remember those recorded lectures ….and you can email me for the details!