Murray Cook

Murray Cook graduated from the archaeology department in Edinburgh in 1995 and has 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 has conducted 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. He regularly hosts student placements and is keen to hear from interested individuals.

He is passionate about public engagement with archaeology and regularly runs 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.