Archaeological Evaluation

Date September 2011

Event ID 966043

Category Recording

Type Archaeological Evaluation

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/966043

NS 8094 9565 The Abbey Craig Dig is intended to be the first of many community archaeological training projects run by Stirling Council and the Ranger Service. Season One in September 2011 looked at the portions of the Abbey Craig Hillfort which lay beyond the outer rampart and a Late Victorian toilet block associated with the Wallace Monument. Local volunteers, tourists and schoolchildren undertook all the work.

The results confirmed the presence of an outer terrace beyond the second rampart, as well as the toilet block. Finds included a hammerstone, a mason’s chisel, pottery and glass associated with the Victorian tea room and a hoard of 1970s halfpennies, presumably stolen from the Wallace Monument and dropped by the thief as they ran from the scene.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: Stirling Council, Murray Cook, Claire Bird, Stuart Dinning and Doug Rocks-Macqueen

Stirling Council, 2011