Murray Cook

Dr Murray Cook graduated from the archaeology department in Edinburgh in 1995 and have since worked across Northern Britain in a variety of roles in commercial and curatorial archaeology. He is currently employed as Stirling Councils Archaeologist giving archaeological advice to Stirling, Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and North Lanarkshire Councils. In 2015 he gained a PhD from Edinburgh for a study of the later prehistoric settlement record of the Don Valley in Aberdeenshire, combining key-hole excavation with commercial mitigation excavations. He conduct research excavations into later prehistoric settlement sites in Stirling, East Lothian and Aberdeenshire and is the co-founder and co-director of Rampart Scotland an archaeological field school http://www.rampartscotland.co.uk/. He regularly hosts student placements and am keen to hear from interested individuals. He is passionate about public engagement with archaeology and regularly run free excavations, walks, lectures and other active engagement with the public, the details of which are presented in a regular and informal blog called Stirling Archaeology.