The Diary - upcoming news and events from 2nd December onwards.
Week 49..results....
Welcome to Stirling Archaeology’s ‘The Diary’ , a weekly summary of all the interesting history and archaeological things happening round Stirling, including some of my adventures which finishes with a very bad joke and a poem so make sure you read to the end!
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Murray’s Meanders!
Saturday saw our annual conference in support of the Church of the Holy Rude which costs £600 a day to run. Thanks to everyone who came on the day and to our sponsors AOC Archaeology and Edinburgh University. Hope to see you next year!
The key result of the day and something I was very proud to announce is that our research (really Dom Farrugia’s) into the City Wall confirms its three years older and built in 1544. This small detail means that is was not a panicky response to the English invasion at the Battle of Pinkie but rather a royal project started by Mary de Guise. It is not just the best preserved wall in Scotland it is also the best ever wall built in Scotland internationally significant! Can’t wait to get more stuck in next year!
And to remind you….. I was nominated for the Stirling Business Awards for the first time ever in the Outstanding Contribution to the City section and I hope that you will vote for me, but I really, I only coordinate what you all do!
Winter Gardening
On the 17th December from 10-1 we’ll do a little bit of tree clearance at the Old Town Cemetery email me if you’re interested m.j.cookstirling35@gmail.com
And if you come along at 11…..I’ll tell you all about Stirling’s amazing city wall…the best preserved and most important in Scotland and its last surviving gate!
oh and here’s the latest issue of Clish Clash!
Stirling Field and Archaeological Society.
The Society’s next evening meeting is on Tuesday 10 th December, at 7.30pm in St Ninians Old Parish Halls, when Bob McMillan from Linlithgow Heritage Trust will talk about OLD BOTTLES and; BUTTER CROCKS. Broken bottles and domestic pottery are the most common finds on our sites, but our speaker will talk about the delights of finding and collecting whole examples – which is possible with patience and a lot of luck – and entertain us with a quiz.
All are welcome.
KINLOCHARD LOCAL HISTORY GROUP 24/25 PROGRAMME
Venue Kinlochard Village Hall: Meeting Time 7.30 pm
Wednesday 04 December 2024
Nigel Bonnet: A Short history of Bridge of Chon House...and its natural history
Wednesday 8 January 2025
Mike Benson: Development of the New Scottish Crannog Centre
Wednesday 05 February 2025
Louise Nixon: Every Contact Leave a Trace
Wednesday 05 March 2025
Don Martin: Last Train to Aberfoyle
Wednesday 02 April 2025
Professor Richard Oram: The Early Burgh of Stirling
Annual Membership £15 or £4 per presentation
Contact Joyce Kelly (Secretary) Tel 01877 387292 James Kennedy (Chair) Tel 01877 387201
For Subscriptions Katy Lamb K.lamb142@btinternet.com – Bank Transfers preferred
Loch Ard Local History Group 80-05-91 00370858
Got a question? Get in touch!
Battle of Falkirk Muir (1746) 2025 Conference
The Battle of Falkirk Muir (1746) Trust are excited to host our next conference that will commemorate the Battle’s 279th anniversary.
Saturday 18 January 2025 at 9:30-5pm
Falkirk Forth Valley College Campus, Falkirk, FK2 9AD
Speakers on the day include:
Dr Georgia Vullinghs - “A Crown of Everlasting Glory”: the Afterlife of Maria Clementina Sobieska in Material and Visual Culture
Phil Carradice - Women of the Jacobite Rebellions, A Forgotten Army
Count Peter Pininski - The Stuart-Radziwill Circle in Rome and Poland 1725-1795
Professor Edward Corp - The Jacobite Order of the Thistle
Paul Macdonald - Swordsmen of the Risings - A presentation detailing several martial legends of the Jacobite Risings, delivered along with original period arms
Dr Harman Murtagh - The Irish Jacobite army 1689-91
Tickets costs - Adult: £30 or Concession: £25
(10% off with code “BOFM2025EB” until 25/12)
Purchase via: www.shorturl.at/XMPmj or QR Code
Conference Content
some of the you might remember Finlay who dug at Balglass?
Joke and Poem!
The joke is from Denis of the Rambler…
What do you call a Russian man with bronchitis? Ivan Nastichestikov.
and a bit of Kathleen Jamie for the poem
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Thank you for all that Murray.
Nastichestikov ... groan ...