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HAVE SCOTTISH ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND ROB ROY'S HOME? By Graham Spicer 10/04/2007 The large boulders may be part of the foundations for a 18th century turf-built longhouse. Photo NTS Archaeologists are excavating a house they think may have belonged to legendary Scottish outlaw Rob Roy. The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) dig is examining the lower slopes of Ben Lomond at Ardess, where Rob Roy is known to have lived in early 18th century. “Documentary evidence records that Rob Roy owned land at Ardess in 1710-11 and the Duke of Montrose became his feudal superior,” said Derek Alexander, NTS archaeologist. “However,...

Rob Roy MacGregor is exposed as a tartan turncoat GRAHAM OGILVY AND KURT BAYER HE WAS romanticised by Sir Walter Scott and glamorised by Hollywood. But a new investigation by one of Scotland’s leading historians has revealed that Rob Roy MacGregor was not so much a tartan Robin Hood as a robbing hood. David Stevenson, emeritus professor of Scottish history at St Andrews University, will claim in a new book that the folk hero was a traitor, spy and fraudster. Stevenson’s most shocking claim is that Rob Roy betrayed his own side by selling Jacobite secrets to the English government....