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  • 2000-year-old ancient Roman Road, described as the most important in Scottish history, has been discovered

    11/07/2023 8:10:03 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 39 replies
    A 2000-year-old ancient Roman road was unearthed in Old Inn Cottage's garden near Stirling, Scotland. The site is located a few miles away from Stirling’s city center, next to the Old Stirling Bridge.It has been described as the most important road in Scottish history, the cobbled road was built by the Roman armies of General Julius Agricola in the 1st century AD and would have connected to a ford that crossed the River Forth.The road and the crossing would have been used again by the Romans in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD as units launched fresh invasions of Scotland...
  • Catapult ball fired at Edinburgh Castle in 13th century siege discovered in hotel site dig

    01/07/2019 8:11:30 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 61 replies
    The Scotsman ^ | Saturday 29 December 2018 | Brian Ferguson
    An archaeological dig has unearthed new evidence of a three-day attack on Edinburgh Castle - on a site earmarked for a luxury hotel by Sir Richard Branson. Experts believe they have found a carved stone which would have been fired from a giant catapult during the pivotal siege in 1296. It led to Edward I seizing control of the medieval fortress, plundering its treasures and shipping them to London, and the castle being held under English rule for 18 years. Archaeologists made the discovery at the site of the proposed new Virgin Hotel, which is earmarked for a large swathe...
  • King Arthur's round table may have been found by archaeologists in Scotland

    08/26/2011 1:05:30 PM PDT · by Palter · 45 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 26 Aug 2011 | Telegraph
    Archaeologists searching for King Arthur's round table have found a "circular feature" beneath the historic King's Knot in Stirling. The King's Knot, a geometrical earthwork in the former royal gardens below Stirling Castle, has been shrouded in mystery for hundreds of years. Though the Knot as it appears today dates from the 1620s, its flat-topped central mound is thought to be much older. Writers going back more than six centuries have linked the landmark to the legend of King Arthur. Archaeologists from Glasgow University, working with the Stirling Local History Society and Stirling Field and Archaeological Society, conducted the first...
  • Lost Capital Of Scotland Uncovered

    07/06/2002 4:49:47 PM PDT · by blam · 42 replies · 960+ views
    Sunday Herald ^ | Jennifer Johnston
    Lost capital of Scotland uncovered Dark Age fort found near Wallace Monument proves Stirling was home of Scottish warlords By Jenifer Johnston Workers laying cables to floodlight the National Wallace Monument have uncovered a 1500-year-old citadel which confirms the site of Scotland's lost capital. Archaeologists believe the ruins establish a much earlier time of sophisticated battles near Stirling. An archaeological report published yesterday reveals that the cliff-top fortification on the volcanic Abbey Craig was a 'Dark Age citadel' occupied between 500 and 780AD. The discovery of entrances, stone walls and timber ramparts provides the first evidence that Stirling was one...
  • Pictures: Gold Treasure, Roman Coins Revealed in U.K.

    04/06/2011 11:27:58 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 18 replies
    National Geographic ^ | Published April 4, 2011 | Rachel Kaufman
    Fifty thousand Roman coins found in a field in Somerset, England, in 2010 (including the artifacts above) amount to the largest hoard of coins discovered in a single vessel—and the second largest hoard of ancient coins ever found in Britain, according to British Museum experts. The coins, along with recently discovered Iron Age gold jewelry—both found by amateur treasure hunters—will be acquired by museums, thanks to a series of grants and donations, officials recently announced. The coins will go to England's Museum of Somerset, which will put them on display after it reopens this summer. The haul, most of which...
  • Salazar approved solar project a bust

    10/03/2011 6:15:15 AM PDT · by cutty · 6 replies
    Energy Policy Center ^ | October 2nd, 2011 | amy
    Almost a year ago to the day the Department of Interior issued a press release boasting that Secretary Ken Salazar had “approved the first large-scale solar energy plants ever to be built on public lands.” As with Obama administration renewable energy initiatives, there were the promises of massive amounts of electrical power and “green jobs. ... One of the major players was Arizona-based Stirling Energy Systems out of Scottsdale, which was to provide the technology for Tessera Solar of Texas to move forward with the massive Imperial Valley Solar Project in Imperial County, California. What a difference a year makes....
  • Dean Kamen's Stirling Solution

    08/02/2007 1:48:59 PM PDT · by eraser2005 · 18 replies · 872+ views
    Green Wombat ^ | 8/2/2007 | Todd Woody
    In a world of Stepford executives who never deviate from the corporate party line, there's something refreshing about an entrepreneur willing to take a tumble - literally - for his latest innovation. In uber-inventor Dean Kamen's case that meant crashing his Stirling electric hybrid scooter in front of Green Wombat and a photographer. In June, Green Wombat visited Westwind, Kamen's estate outside Manchester, New Hampshire, to talk to the Segway inventor about his plans to install a Stirling heat engine in an electric car made by Norway's Think. (See "Have You Driven a Fjord Lately?" in the August issue of...
  • World's largest solar installation to use Stirling engine technology

    08/13/2005 3:42:35 AM PDT · by Arkie2 · 124 replies · 7,176+ views
    Free Energy News ^ | Aug 05 | Sterling D. Allan
    ROSEMEAD, CA, USA -- A Stirling engine is commonly referred to as an "external combustion engine" in contrast to the "internal combustion engines" found in most vehicles. Combine a Stirling engine with solar as the source of heat, and you have a highly efficient means of converting solar power into usable energy. That is what Stirling Energy Systems has been perfecting for the past 20 years. On Aug. 8, 2005, President Bush toured the DOE's National Solar Thermal Test Facility at the Sandia National Laboratories complex, situated on Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M., where he signed the energy...