The Stirling area's Doors Open Days Festival is happening this weekend, Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th of September 2025. To see the full line up of participating venues visit doorsopendays.org.uk & download the interactive map to find your way round them all.

There's still time to book your free place at one of our upcoming SW Scotland Archaeological Research Framework workshops. Join us at Brodick Hall this Saturday, or CatStrand in New Galloway on the 4th Oct. All welcome! More info on our Eventbrite page: bit.ly/3IdW91H #HESSupported

A new blog post by Archaeologist Steve Worth on a project he is undertaking at Kinloss Abbey in Moray, a 12th C Cistercian monastry. Read about what research, geophys and fieldwalking have revealed so far. nosasblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/arc…

So important to support heritage projects. This one is doing amazing work, rewriting the history of Govan.

Fantastic opportunity to hear about Scotland in the 1800s, during the time of Frederick Chopin visiting Scotland. facebook.com/share/p/1KBjbM…

Help us turn £10k into £2,000,000! ​We're raising funds for a 2-year project to showcase the 1,500-year-old Govan Old graveyard. ​Hitting our £10k goal unlocks over £2M in pledged funding for our building's future. Your donation has a massive impact. ​ tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard-g…

My latest blog explores a lost cemetery in Dunblane open.substack.com/pub/stirlingar…

Remember event on today at Chatelherault Visitor centre.

Fab picture, while folks are working away in background. 🤔

We have just completed a week of fantastic archaeology, digging the Loch Achilty crannog with the Nautical Archaeology Society. We opened 3 trenches and found probable structural oak timbers in all of them. Trenches are now backfilled and samples await analysis.

📽 A Facebook Live tour of the The Govan Stones 🛡👑 I gave to promote our £10,000 fundraiser!

I’ve started doing some work with the incredible Ronald Morris archive with a small team of UofG Archaeology students. I’ll share some gems in the coming months. Here’s Ronald himself! 📸 Historic Environment Scotland

🎉 62%! Thank you! Now, can we get to 65% before Sunday's #HOGBACKLIVE? tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard-g…

Wowser my substack which deals with Scottish archaeology and Stirling is just outside the top 10! If you want to find out what all the fuss is about … here’s the link! substack.com/@stirlingarcha…

Clutha Members Jean and Tom were on this dig, where the flint was discovered.

A wee film about the site of our latest dig…Woodend Motte, Balfron

Have you ever wondered about rubbish cobbling in an archaeological site? This may be the post for you!

While most folks stayed indoors on a dreich day, the Clutha Volunteers did some walkover surveying at Crogal Castle and The Mount near Carnbroe. If you saw a group of folk wandering in fields at side of M8 it was us.