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This exciting discovery concerns Logie Homestead, which is a substantial roundhouse, perhaps two to 3,000-years-old, that's on the south facing slopes, overlooking Stirling, right next to the homestead was one cultivation terrace.

We've been here for the last two, three days, and we've actually found seven or eight cultivation terraces.

An enormous discovery, cultivation terraces are like raised beds.

The create terraces on the side of the hill to plant crops and to take advantage of the south facing slope, the extra warmth in the sun.

Now, who builds them? We don't know. How old are they? We don't know. Are they related to the Logie homestead?

That's one possibility.

A far more exciting one is a hill fort about half an hour from here, half an hour's walk, Dumyat.

That's an older name.

That means Dun Maeatae. 

Maeatae are first named in Roman sources around 180 200 AD, and we know that they fight the Roman Empire. Are these Maeatae cultivation slopes?

Is this a kind of a 2,000-year-old farm on the side of the hill?

We don't know.

However, It's a new discovery.

That's why we're clearing the bracken, and we're doing a series of small scale excavations to try and recover dating evidence from the cultivation terraces to link it to either Logie Homestead or to Dumyat.

So everyone here, including myself is a volunteer, we're just local people.

We're interested in our past, and actually telling the story of our ancestors in this spot that for the last 30 years has lain under bracken, unnoticed and untold.