Geophysical Survey

Date 1996

Event ID 633037

Category Recording

Type Geophysical Survey

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NT 341 720 Excavations previously carried out by Richmond (PSAS 1978), Hanson (1985) and Leslie (unpublished) confirmed the presence of a fort on this site and yielded some details of its position and form. Richmond calculated that the W defences should run obliquely NE-SW through the field to the W of the church where Leslie excavated in 1993. It was in this field in 1996 that geophysical survey using seismic, magnetic and electrical techniques was undertaken.

The seismic survey produced no archaeologically relevant results. The resistivity and magnetic surveys both showed linear anomalies orientated NE-SW across the field which correspond to the postulated position of the defences.

Sponsor: Glasgow University Archaeology Department

L Baker, P Johnson and D Smythe 1996