STIRLING, SCOTLAND—A thirteenth-century Dominican friary that was destroyed during the Reformation in 1559 is being excavated by a team from GUARD Archaeology. Animal bones, medieval ceramics, a section of wall, and architectural stones have been unearthed. Garden soils have also been recovered. It is unclear at this time if human remains at the site are from the medieval period or later. “For Stirling, this is the first time that a medieval site has been subject to modern excavation on this scale,” Murray Cook, the archaeologist for Stirling Council, told Culture 24. To read about the excavation of an unusual peasant community in Scotland, see ARCHAEOLOGY's feature "Living on the Edge."