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Earth Resistance Survey
Date 2001
Event ID 550433
Category Recording
Type Earth Resistance Survey
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/550433
NT 088 871 Ground resistance surveys have been conducted over two areas in Pittencrieff Park where aerial photographs have shown cropmarks. Some 15m to the S of the main E-W walkway on the S side of Pittencrieff House it is estimated, from an oblique photograph, that a rectangle about 130m E-W by 75m N-S could relate to a ha-ha existing c 1900. A 69m length in the middle of the N side has been surveyed. At the W end a low resistance that could represent the infilled ha-ha is crossed N-S by a lower resistance strip that appears to align with a walkway to a WW2 meteorological station. Towards the E end of the survey the low resistance is no longer linear and is difficult to interpret; infilling with rubble is a possible explanation.
About 125m S of the main walkway on the E side a parchmark approximately square with internal divisions is shown on an oblique photograph. An area of 756m2 has been surveyed to date showing a distinct high-resistance line N-S but with higher resistance spots on the N edge. Further work is arranged.
Sponsors: Fife Council, Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society.
H M D Jones 2001
