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Archaeologists Uncover Graves Of National Significance Near Meigle Archaeologists have discovered a historic site of national significance beneath the sandy soil of rural Perthshire. More info : http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/Pertshire/article/22297/archaeologists-uncover-graves-of-national-significance-near-meigle.html Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by drewbhoy 20th April 2012ce

Carpow logboat comes home to Perthshire 3,000-year-old Carpow logboat comes home to Perthshire One of the finest archaeological finds ever made in Perthshire has taken up residence at Perth Museum and Art Gallery The Bronze Age Carpow logboat has been transported to the town and painstakingly lifted into its new home by conservation specialists... continues... Comments (1)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by moss 1st March 2012ce

Dunning Iron Age find shows Roman-Pictish link Iron Age dwelling remains uncovered in Perthshire could cast "new light" on early Scottish history. Archaeologists working near the village of Dunning found an Iron Age broch which has evidence of early contact between the Picts and the Roman Empire... continues... Comments (3)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by BigSweetie 1st September 2011ce Edited 1st September 2011ce

Neolithic Axe Head Unearthed At Perth Museum has been allocated the 6,000 year old treasure which is just one of the finds north of the border. More info : http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/2140794 Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by drewbhoy 17th February 2011ce

Early brewing in Perthshire... http://heritage.caledonianmercury... continues... Comments (3)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by nickbrand 2nd November 2010ce Edited 2nd November 2010ce

Perthshire burial chamber is Scotland's 'Valley of the Kings' A 4000-year-old burial chamber in Perthshire has been described as Scotland's "Valley of the Kings." Excavation of the site at Forteviot, just to the south of Perth, began in earnest last year and ever since it has been regarded as something of an archaeological jewel... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by moss 26th September 2010ce

Bid For Luxury Golf Course At Loch Rannoch Is Rejected Woodland Trust is 'delighted' by decision to throw out application for resort. by Lucinda Cameron. published 17/06/2010. Conservationists were celebrating yesterday after planning permission for a luxury golf course and hotel in ancient Scottish woodland was rejected... continues... Comments (3)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by drewbhoy 17th June 2010ce

Forteviot cemetery Had been thought to be Bronze Age but according to Dr. Kenneth Brophy in a talk tonight the C14 dates came back Fiday and place it in the Neolithic with dates in the range 3000-2800 B.C.E. pre-dating the henge and the timber circle Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by wideford 1st June 2010ce Edited 2nd June 2010ce

Nettles Put Through Their Paces At Festival Iron Age visitor attraction shows stinging weed's many applications. Nettle soup anyone? More at : http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1739118 (Published 17/5/2010) Comments (3)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by drewbhoy 17th May 2010ce

Bronze Age burial ritual shown to have flowers in grave goods Dig in Scotland has discovered a bunch of meadowsweet blossoms in a Bronze Age grave at Forteviot, south of Perth. More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8412938.stm Comments (1)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by mascot 15th December 2009ce Edited 15th December 2009ce

Log Boats Maiden Voyage Is Plain Sailing Bronze Age replica made from a single tree. by Alison Middleton. First published in the Press and Journal 2/09/09. A replica Bronze Age boat has successfully completed her maiden voyage across Loch Tay. The rest of the story : http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1377482 Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by drewbhoy 3rd September 2009ce Edited 4th September 2009ce

Bronze Age boat to be lifted from Tay mud From the Courier http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2006/07/29/newsstory8595566t0.asp Archaeologists have been working this week on a 30ft long Bronze age log boat, which is in the tidal mudflats of the Tay near Abernethy... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Rhiannon 29th July 2006ce Edited 28th August 2006ce

Bahn Lecture Paul Bahn finishes a series of six Rhind lectures, "Art on the Rocks", tomorrow at the National Museum of Scotland. I managed to get to three on the Saturday. All were hugely informative, entertaining thought provoking and at times very funny. The one that would be of interest to most was "The Emperor's New Clothes"... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by tiompan 18th March 2006ce Edited 19th March 2006ce

Perthshire Archaeology Month 27 May - 25 June 2006 the events for Perthshire Archaeology Month have just been announced, running from 27 May - 25 June 2006 http://www.perthshire.co.uk/index.asp?tm=49 some megalithic highlights: The continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by BigSweetie 15th March 2006ce

Ancient Drowned Forest Discovery "Underwater archaeologists in Perthshire have made the incredible discovery of a drowned forest, thought to date from the neolithic period some 5000 years ago." More details here Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Hob 19th September 2005ce Edited 20th September 2005ce

Time to get digging for Archaeology Week A series of events celebrating the rich and varied archaeology of Strathearn and beyond is set to take place from May 29 until June 6. Perthshire Archaeology Week has been organised by a consortium of local and national organisations, and receives funding from Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust and the Perthshire Tourist Board... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Jane 21st May 2004ce

Perthshire Archaeology Week 29/5/04 to 6/6/04 Perthshire Archaeology Week will be held this year from 29/5/04 to 6/6/04. Details can be found at; www.perthshire.co.uk/archaeologyweek This page will be updated as the programme is finalised (not much on there today). Details can also be obtained from Douglas Ritchie in the Tourist Board in Perth (01738 627958) or David Strachan, Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust (01738 447855). Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Martin 12th May 2004ce

Kettins stone needs a home From Blairgowrie Advertiser a couple of weeks ago; Pictish stone needs a home Sally Wilson AN ancient Pictish slab, which has been severely eroded after lying in an East Perthshire churchyard for decades, could soon be conserved in a museum... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Martin 30th July 2003ce

Dig brings some excitement to Dull village http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/11-6-19103-23-50-7.html DULL by name but not by nature... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by nickbrand 13th June 2003ce

Norse code taps back 9000 years to life in Highlands From the 23rd December edition of The Herald. by MARTYN McLAUGHLIN Archeologists have discovered the remains of a 9000-year-old community that shows Scotland's earliest settlers may have been of Nordic origins... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by nickbrand 23rd December 2002ce

Ancient dwelling found in quarry may be 10,000 years old from the Herald: Shan Ross The earliest known house in Scotland is understood to have been unearthed in Dunbar, East Lothian. Archaeologists believe the remains of the house on the site of a limestone quarry dates from the Mesolithic era of the hunter-gatherers between 8000BC and 4000BC... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Rhiannon 21st November 2002ce

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More news about Carpow Log Boat. http://www.pkht.org.uk/Projects/Carpow-Logboat/ Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by drewbhoy 1st May 2012ce

Full article at icPerthshire . Local 'Earth Energy' researcher and author David Cowan has some theories about the placing of local stone circles in relation to a major geological fault line. "According to a local geological map, a fault line runs across Crieff's High Street, and it may be this which is responsible for some unusual occurrences," he said. "For instance, one precursor to the Killin 'quake on the Thursday (20th Jan) afternoon was felt in the Pretoria Bar in the High Street, just prior to the 10pm shock, when a bottle of whisky fell off a shelf. This must have been very unnerving but geological fault lines give a plausible explanation for these seemingly paranormal events." David says: "There must be many other ancient sites built upon and making use of the strange but natural energies our planet emits. It is probably this fault, running through a large part of the town which causes people to hear, feel and see things which may frighten them, when the culprit may really be the human brain reacting to natural energies. People may see visions, ghosts and objects but they can be put down to natural sub-surface energies." On the Crieff Golf Course there is the remains of an ancient four-stone circle which can be seen from the Crieff-Gilmerton road. David suggests that the circle has been carefully placed directly on top of a fault line, where the conglomerates - or pudding stones - of the Knock butt against the schistose grits to the south. This fault appears to run down to near Millar Street to the High Street, presumably close to the Pretoria, running roughly parallel to the east of King Street and on to the River Earn bridge. David explained: "When faults move they emit a wide variety of sounds and electro-magnetic frequencies, rather like an orchestra, with every instrument playing out of tune and at full blast. Any sounds heard are usually deep, like thunder, as the higher frequencies are filtered out by the overlying rock. It is probably these frequencies which caused the bottle to be displaced. Imagine an opera singer smashing a wine glass with a sustained note at a certain pitch, or your washing machine waltzing across the kitchen on full spin. Everything has a resonant frequency, and when it is reached things do start to move, oscillate or break. No ghosts or poltergeists needed to explain this!" He points out that the siting of this stone circle is not alone - there are a number of ancient sites around Crieff built on top of the many faults which make up the mile-wide Highland Boundary Fracture Zone - the fault which seperates the Highlands from the Scottish Lowlands. Here are some of the local ancient sites which the Crieff man believes are on volcanic anomalies: Ochtertyre Mausoleum and burial-ground directly on top of the Highland Boundary Fault; Monzie Burial-ground and church, surrounded by two faults, the HBF and a nearby parallel fault. The river can be seen tumbling over these faults beside the burial-ground; A prehistoric cup-marked boulder with some 60 carvings on its surface in a field opposite Foulford Inn in the Sma' Glen, on a parallel fault to the HBF. Cup-marks are sometimes called petroglyphs. These are depressions, sometimes surrounded by one or more circles pecked into boulders, standing stones and the living rock several thousand years ago; Another cup-marked stone in field to the east of the Comrie-Cultybraggan road on top of fault leading to Lawers house. The four-stone circle next to the Comrie graveyard on the low Comrie-Crieff road is also on top of this fault; Cup-marked stone east side of fault running across the Shaggie Burn, in the Sma' Glen; Stone circle (kerbed cairn) in Monzie Castle grounds, again on fault where the Knock conglomerates meet the schistose grits; Four-stone circle on summit of volcanic pluton to the north of Comrie. apologies if I've linked these to the wrong sites - just let me know, and if you know where any others refer to Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Rhiannon 26th April 2005ce Edited 26th April 2005ce

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AHDS 'Report on Stone Circles in Perthshire, Principally Strathearn; with measured plans and drawings..' by Fred R Coles. This article in the 1910/11 volume of PSAS has sixty-three illustrations and a lot of description. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Rhiannon 24th March 2010ce

The Scottish Megaraks Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by nickbrand 23rd June 2003ce

Highland Perthshire: Heartlander Web Guide Excellent local guide to the heart of Perthshire, all sorts of information from accommodation through commentary and local recommendations. Very useful. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by nickbrand 20th December 2002ce

The Megalithic Sites of Perthshire This website is dedicated to the megalithic sites of Perthshire. Just now, it focuses on standing stones, stone circles, and ring cairns, but with time it will hopefully expand to include other megalithic sites in Perthshire. Contains an impressive listing of all the standing stones, stone circles and ring cairns in Perthshire (including possible and destroyed sites). Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by nickbrand 19th December 2002ce Edited 19th December 2002ce

Scotty's Prehistoric Perthshire Standing stones, stone circles and other prehistoric sites in Perthshire. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by nickbrand 19th December 2002ce

Tullichuil (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Fieldnotes

Found yesterday , 3 metres from the site of one of the new Beauly to Denny pylons so some notifications in hand . It has to be said that the all the previously recorded sites on the route that I'm aware ahve been well signed and the route avoids . This one is different ,although you may have imagined a watching brief would have tatken place at such a sensitive spot . Although having said that the markings are not that clear to an unpracticed eye . Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by tiompan 23rd May 2012ce

Tullichuil (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Images (click to view fullsize)

Posted by tiompan 23rd May 2012ce

Little Trochry (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Fieldnotes

A couple of new finds , ctually from about a month ago but light was poor so had to go back a couple of weeks later to get better pics . The possible standing stone was noted about six years ago but despite the packing I didn't feel like suggesting as a possible as they are so common but a recent visitcoupled with burnt heather led to the discovery of a sub circular enclosure that is not a hut circle ,too small and entrance is in the north and a cairn within 60 metres si I decided to consider it as a possible ,plus there is nothing upstanding like this for a couple of miles . Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by tiompan 17th May 2012ce

Little Trochry (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Images

Posted by tiompan 17th May 2012ce