Information that will lead you to the coordinates can be found at the following waypoints, but visiting them is not essential to completing the challenge.
W1) For 400 years, Stirling's prisoners were kept in the old Tollbooth Jail. It was a stinking, overcrowded, place. There came pressure for improvement and prison reform so the new purpose built Stirling Old Town Jail opened. Do you know when it was opened? =A
W2) This news report begins: 'An account of a serious riot which took place in Stirling on Saturday the 19th April,( in which year?). when two disturbers of the Dead were almost torn to pieces by the populace, and a party of soldiers being brought from the Castle to quell the riot, fired on the mob, when several persons were wounded.'
The riot described in this report apparently came about when the trial of two resurrectionists, or body-snatchers, was halted pro loco et tempore. In Scots Law this phrase refers to a case where the trial is stopped but the prosecution retains the right to bring a fresh indictment against the accused. The 1820s saw mounting concern in Scotland over the theft and sale of newly-buried bodies for anatomical research. The outrage reached its peak in (which year?) when William Burke and William Hare were founded to have committed multiple murders in Edinburgh to find fresh subjects for the anatomists. =B
W3) The Street frontage, or building lying in front of the graveyard was once utilised as a prison. Do you know when they ceased using it? =C
W4) The Tolbooth has been many things, including a court house. Do you know when it was first used as a court house? =D
W5) The Thief’s Pot is a replica of a jail from which century? =E
W6) Glenochil Prison was originally a Young offenders prison but was upgraded for more serious offenders in which year? =F
W7) Which year did Corton Vale accept its first female prisoner? =G
W8) St Ninians Grave yard is one of the few graveyards that shows example of gravestones featuring cross & skull bones. Contary to popular belief, these were not pirates graves, but rather a symbol of mortality. In which era were these graves popular? =H
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