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Tomb of Otters Geophysical Survey
Date 22 March 2016
Event ID 1025190
Category Project
Type Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1025190
ND 4580 8339 In 2010 a rock cut Neolithic tomb, now known as the ‘Tomb of the Otters’, was discovered at Banks Farm. In an adjacent field, recent work revealed possible stone structures thought to potentially indicate a house, possibly Bronze Age in date. The aim of the geophysical survey on
22 March 2016 was to map the extent of any possible buried structures.
Gradiometry and resistance survey were undertaken over an area of c40 x 60m. The survey appears to have detected prehistoric field boundaries and natural variations within the subsoil and possible modern ground disturbance. There is no evidence in the resistance data for buried structural remains other than the early field boundaries. In addition, the
extremely quiet magnetic response across the site suggests the lack of any significant ‘domestic’ occupation of the area.
Archive: Rose Geophysical Consultants
Funder: Hamish Mowatt
Susan Ovenden – Rose Geophysical Consultants
(Source: DES, Volume 17)
