Unspecified Geophysical Survey Technique

Date 1998

Event ID 1167929

Category Recording

Type Unspecified Geophysical Survey Technique

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1167929

ND 1570 3032 A non-invasive investigation of this possible Early Christian monastic site was undertaken in order to inform management policy for the site and to increase the level of information available. Topographic and geophysical surveys were carried out on the site and the surrounding areas, the geophysical survey being limited to areas outside the Scheduled area. The topographic survey revealed that the summit of the hill was divided into two areas, one with a single circular structure and the other with a two-chambered rectilinear building and a series of roughly circular small structures now reduced to rubble. The geophysical survey revealed a number of interesting anomalies, the most important of which is consistent with a large ditch. This would have restricted access to the site and, if proved to be a ditch, could have been the vallum for a monastery.

Sponsors: Historic Scotland, Dunbeath Preservation Trust, Mr and Mrs Bethune.

I Banks and J Hooper 1998.