Castlehill Wood (re-)Dun: Reinterpreting a Stirling Oddity

Contents

Introduction

Location and Background

Results

Excavation  

Artefacts  

Discussion

The proposed nature of the roof.  

Intra-Mural Features  

Architectural complexity?  

Dating and Phasing  

Castlehill Wood in Context  

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Appendix 1: A Re-Assesment of Artefacts from West Plean Homestead – Gemma Cruickshanks and Fraser Hunter

Introduction  

The Assemblage  

Discussion  

Acknowledgements  

Appendix 2: A Roman Lava Quern from an Iron Age Site at Gallow Hill, Stirling – Fraser Hunter and Gemma Cruickshanks

Introduction  

Catalogue  

Acknowledgements  

References

About the Author

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 Council’s 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 conducts 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 informalblog called Stirling Archaeology.