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Earth Resistance Survey
Date 16 March 2014
Event ID 1012774
Category Recording
Type Earth Resistance Survey
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1012774
NT 5569 7227 The 2013 (DES 2013, 72) ground resistance survey of the assumed site of Morham Castle was extended by 60m to the S, giving a total area of 120 x 60m. The survey, which was undertaken on 16 March 2014, did not find any clear, unambiguous evidence for Morham Castle. The S end of the survey area showed a lower resistance than the centre and N, with narrow higher resistance lines, which appear to be too narrow to be associated with a castle and probably relate to the footings of farming boundary walls and pens or buildings. The higher resistance area in the centre and N of the survey area was fairly uniform but did show some
potential features with slightly higher resistances, some of which appear to be linear, square or rectangular, but the nature of these features is unclear. They may represent slight natural variations in the soil and the underlying geology; however, the possibility that they reflect the presence of rubble spreads from very heavily degraded archaeology cannot be wholly ruled out.
Archive: RCAHMS and East Lothian SMR
Funder: East Lothian Council Archaeological Service and Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society
Don Matthews – Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society
(Source: DES)
