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150 year old time capule surprise find for Ogilvie team

The team from Ogilvie Construction were given a 150 year old surprise while working on a project to refurbish the Village Hall in Gartmore, Stirlingshire.

A glass time capsule was found in in a specially constructed stone buttress at the base of the front elevation of the building.  To the astonishment of the team on site it contained a ‘Groat’, or four pence piece, dating back to 1836, along with a sixpence dated 1844.

The bottle also contained a leaflet of some kind, referring to the masons but this was unreadable.

Ogilvie’s Site Manager, Bernie McLaughlan, said:
“We were really surprised to find the bottle in such good condition as it has been there for well over 100 years. Unfortunately the cork had disintegrated, allowing water into the bottle, which destroyed the leaflet it contained.

“It’s not often you come across something like this and there was a special compartment built into the buttress to make sure the time capsule was preserved.”

The pieces have been sent to archaeology specialists for further analysis.

Ogilvie Construction is refurbishing the Village Hall in Gartmore in a £890,000 project for the Gartmore Community Trust, funded by the Big Lottery, Forth Valley and Lomond LEADER, Climate Challenge Fund, People & Communities Fund, Scottish Power Green Energy Trust, Robertson Trust and the Gordon Fraser Trust, as well as the local community.

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