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Tullibole Geophysical Survey
Date 27 April 2008 - 24 May 2008
Event ID 609019
Category Project
Type Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/609019
NO 0545 0081 Resistivity and magnetic gradiometer surveys were carried out in the churchyard 27 April–24 May 2008. Conspicuous low resistivity areas were delineated around the church and two small buildings in the N and SE of the area. Such lows around the sites of buildings are a common feature of Perthshire graveyards .There were also a number of small, sub-circular, low resistivity areas typically about 2m in diameter. At the time of the survey there were no obvious ground features corresponding to the anomalies but subsequent visits, when the vegetation was more developed, showed them to be slightly elevated reedy patches. They
probably correspond to individual graves marked with memorial stones which are now lost or buried.
A circular high resistivity annulus surrounded the James Wellwood Moncrieff memorial. This may represent drier soil dug out and spread during the construction of the monument, but given the antiquity of the site it could easily be a much older feature.
The magnetic map is noisy, as is often the case in graveyards. Some anomalies corresponded to recognisable
features. These included grave sites and the walls of former buildings. A nearby magnetic basaltic sill appears to have been quarried for some of the construction material and many of the anomalies probably reflect the presence of this rock.
Archive: Perth and Kinross SMR and RCAHMS(intended)
Funder: Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust
Peter Morris – Blairgowrie Geoscience
