Dr Murray Cook

Good to meet you!

Tis' the season!

Join some of the team in the museum for some crafts based on things you can find in the museum on Sunday 7th December from 11am. This is aimed at younger children but we do ask that an adult accompany them.

Scotland's Prehistoric Towers.....Brochs and Duns and how to spot the difference! Are duns really a poor man's broch?

My latest blog is all about brochs and duns and how to spot the difference! substack.com/@stirlingarc...

You’ve got my vote!

Oh it’s just arrived! How exciting.

Scotland's First Broch?.....a Robber's Castle? ......the multiple lives of Coldoch! Unpicking the historiography of a southern broch!

My latest blog is all about Scotland’s ‘first broch’! open.substack.com/pub/stirling...

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Webpage of recorded lecture video.

Information about the Dalrymple Lectures with Prof. Steve Driscoll.

🗣📹📼 Watch the recordings of Prof. Steve's Dalrymple Lectures!

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Or, this link should take you to the recordings of both lectures:

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"The coins were auctioned off in 57 lots by Noonans Mayfair on Wednesday, November 12, attracting global bidders from the UK, USA, Europe and New Zealand."

Honestly, it's relentless...

#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure #Coins

Scotland’s staircase to nowhere, Mr Haldane’s Hermitage! Article in the link!

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Fancy a dirty weekend in 2026? ....dig with Dr Murray Cook why not finally pick up that trowel?

Do you fancy a Scottish archaeological adventure in 2026? Join me in a hole and we'll all get dirty! stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/p/fancy-a-di...

Brissit brawnis, and brokin banis, 🚑
Stryf, discorde, and waistie wanis, 🚔
Crukit in eild, syne halt, withal, 🤕
Thir are the bewties of the fute-ball. ⚽

“The Bewties of the Fute-ball” (anon)
Middle Scots poem, c.15–16th century, from the Maitland manuscripts (with added emojis)

Also heart attacks

#Museum30 theme 19 is #magic. In 1615, during reign of King James VI who’d written about witches & warlocks in his book "Daemonologie" in 1597 approving & supporting witch hunting, one Watty Bryce of Dunblane was brought to trial accused of being a warlock as "one who has…/👇

Brusselstown Ring: a nucleated settlement agglomeration in prehistoric Ireland | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Brusselstown Ring: a nucleated settlement agglomeration in prehistoric Ireland

Hot off the press, our new paper on the incredible Late Bronze Age nucleated settlement at Brusselstown Ring hillfort, Co. Wicklow, Ireland is freely available to read (doi.org/10.15184/aqy...). @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @antiquity.ac.uk

A great collaboration, bravo, to all who got this backlog sorted out!

Ha ha brilliant!

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!

Includes a 3000 year old Golden eagle talon from Stirling.

Thanks very much!

Trump’s decision to sue the BBC is exposing the Rabid Right’s hypocrisy. For all their flag waving, its extremists would rather side with a foreign despot who shares their fanatically anti-progressive doctrines than with a British institution that most of their compatriots cherish.

I’m in this one!

Results ....Wallace's Lost Camp Finding the Scot's Camp ahead of Stirling Bridge.

My latest blog is about the results of our excavation on what we think was Wallace and de Moray’s camp ahead of the Battle of Stirling Bridge. open.substack.com/pub/stirling...

Hey, @bsky.app @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team

Why have you suspended @sarahkendzior.bsky.social account ? When are you going to explain yourselves, and when are you going to re-install her?

Is it because she critcises Trump - has someone asked you to suspend her?

300-year-old gold ring found engraved with a romantic message It has found its forever home in Devon

“We are so grateful to our supporters who donated funds allowing us to purchase this ring. We do not have many things in the collection either from this part of Mid Devon, or from that time period.”

Annnnnnnnd again...

#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure

www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

Obviously, it’s been a tough day for the BBC. Big organisations, working under big pressure, will sadly make errors

But I still feel huge pride in hosting a BBC podcast, and having previously spent 11 years making a world-renowned children’s show that no other broadcaster would have made

Stirling and Aberdeen's Hotel of Death! Some late Halloween fun and a cautionary tale on the need to do research!

my latest blog is some late Halloween fun....a cautionary tale about the need to do research! Stirling and Aberdeen's Hotel of Death!
open.substack.com/pub/stirling...

Thanks very much! Yes I did it was quite a shock!

Page 1 of a letter of Mary Shelley to Sir Walter Scott on the authorship of ‘Frankenstein’, 14 June 1818 (MS.3889 f. 118)

Page 2 of a letter of Mary Shelley to Sir Walter Scott on the authorship of ‘Frankenstein’, 14 June 1818 (MS.3889 f. 118)

Did you know Mary Shelley once had to correct Sir Walter Scott for crediting her novel, Frankenstein, to her husband? 🔍

For one day only, see this story on paper at the National Library:
➡️ Mary Shelley's letter to Sir Walter Scott
➡️ Rare early editions & items from our archives
➡️ and more!

Train worker hero credited with saving lives in the Huntingdon knife attack named as Samir Zitouni.

BAJR SURVEY PIR III: ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN FINANCIAL CRISIS Inflation, energy costs, fuel costs and food are becoming increasingly expensive - this anonymous survey will help to understand the level of Financial Crisis we are in as archaeologists - as individu...

It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help.

Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology

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A great occasion and a tour de force presentation from @nts-archaeology.bsky.social on the amazing Pioneering Spirit project!