A Bronze Age burial cairn has been uncovered during work to upgrade a path in Stirling. It is thought to have been built up to 5,000 years ago and would have been used for the burials of generations of an important family living and farming in the area. The cairn, which is more than 30 metres across, is in King’s Park, the oldest and best preserved royal park in Scotland. Murray Cook, Stirling council’s archaeologist, said the find was the oldest known structure in the city and would have been built during the transition from the first farmers to the earliest metalworkers.

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