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Visit Scotland and experience Stirling this summer! We have a packed entertainment schedule for visitors to enjoy. 🗓️ Sat 16th Aug 🕙 10:00 to 17:00 📍 Stirling Sports Village 🎟️ Buy Tickets https://www.stirlinghighlandgames.com/product-category/ticket/ #visitscotland #explorestirling #SHG25

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My latest blogs the impact of bereavement on two Stirling families. stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/p/from-stirl...

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BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

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My latest blog explores how a veteran of the American War of Independence ended up in Stirling. open.substack.com/pub/stirling...

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Margaret Masterton or Maistertoun was employed in 1594 at Stirling Castle as the nurse of Prince Henry, the son of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...

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Featuring me by proxy!

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The parallels are there because it was the same project. Obliterating any and all evidence for non- Christian matrilineal societies, be it in prehistory or in Africa.

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Best discount on your #SHG25 tickets available until the end of the month! 🗓️ Sat 16th Aug 🕙 10:00 to 17:00 📍 Stirling Sports Village 🎟️ Tickets https://s.mtrbio.com/avqfivuynk 🚚 Street Food 🍺 Scottish beers 🎭 Creative Arts #visitscotland #explorestirling #experiencestirlinghighlandgames

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My latest blog is an update on some new results on the Stirling City Wall by Dominic Farrugia stirlingarchaeology.substack.com/p/scotlands-be…

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Stirling in the news! www.thenational.scot/news/2487082...

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Hugh Paterson of Bannockburn House at work in May 1683, the long-awaited blog post: vanishedcomforts.org/2025/01/17/h...

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Office today the amazing Bannockburn House and a 17th century mermaid and a rubbish lion!

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Looking forward to this!

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There's a fantastic section in this new Digging for Britain episode about the Pictish cross-slab (with as-yet-unread ogham inscription!) from Old Kilmadock in Stirlingshire. Great work @stirlingdigger.bsky.social getting it lifted and removed for conservation. Section is from 34:05 to 45:15.

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New Article! Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social on 'Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

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Stirling in the news! www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle...

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I see Tom Rowsell (AKA Survive the Jive) is rebranding himself as the cosy face of English #paganism. He's got a @hopenothate.org.uk file for a reason - much as he comes across as educated, he isn't & underpinning his output is far right ideology. #Archaeology #Pagan unherd.com/2024/04/brit...

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Best Priced Tickets Available Online in December! Book your next experience with us and start planning your visit to Stirling, Scotland's ancient capital. 🗓️ Sat 16th August 2025 🕙 10:00 to 17:00 📍 Stirling Sports Village, Stirling 🚚 Street Food Trucks 🍺 Craft beer 🎭 Creative Arts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland

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"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search" This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!! www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

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Christmas loony dook anyone? Just what you need to work of breakfast!

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Don't miss the Pictish Arts Society's January lecture! @stirlingdigger.bsky.social will present the latest early medieval archaeology from Stirlingshire - including Pictland's most southerly ogham-inscribed cross-slab, from Old Kilmadock. Details at www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk/lectures-202...

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Writing over for today!

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my latest blog looks at medieval pottery recovered from the fields around Manor Powis Castle. open.substack.com/pub/stirling...

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Great fun to make and we’re still fundraising! www.gofundme.com/f/old-kilmad...

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As a creator of any kind of digital (or digitised) art or writing, you can also sign this much simpler statement. Thanks @nikkijayne.bsky.social for alerting me to it!

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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.

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New paper using 7,000 burial records to track population changes in Iron Age Norway. Shows 75% population decline after 536/540 CE volcanic winter! Viking Age recovery linked to warmer climate, agricultural advances & trade networks. 🌋📊 #Archaeology #ClimateHistory #Viking doi.org/10.1080/0029...

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It was cold in Stirling today!

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A wee fun video I made with Bruce Fumey all about Stirling! m.youtube.com/watch?v=0YJU...

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The view from under the 500 year old bell tower at the Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling!

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We're starting two BIG new digitisation projects next week. More details soon! #StirScanStudio

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