Strathearn Community Campus Archaeology Trail

The Strathearn Community Campus Archaeology Trail was a partnership project, coordinated by Strathearn Historic Society.

Dr Steven Timoney of the University of the Highlands and Islands worked on this project involving a wide variety of partners, including Crieff High School, the University of Glasgow, and archaeological units AOC Archaeology and Northlight Heritage. The trail takes visitors around a section of the campus grounds highlighting the archaeological remains that the campus is built on/next to. The project has always been about engaging the community with the archaeological heritage of the area, with all of the sites highlighted in the trail only surviving below ground surface. The landscape the campus is built upon has a rich collection of archaeological sites, dating from the first farmers up to the Crieff Stayt, a medieval court mound where the Earls of Strathearn used to mete out justice to the local community. The trail celebrates this unique and fascinating heritage.

The project has been identified as a case study of best practice in community partnership working by the national heritage body Historic Environment Scotland.