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Geophysical Survey
Date 13 October 2012 - 14 October 2012
Event ID 992263
Category Recording
Type Geophysical Survey
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/992263
NJ 533 472 As part of The Rise and Fall of the Picts: Survey and Excavation at the Early Power Centres and Symbol Stones of Northern Pictland Project a geophysical survey was undertaken, 13–14 October 2012, on Donaldson Haugh.
A total of five Class I Pictish stones have been found at Donaldson Haugh since the 19th century. Excavations in 1975 revealed a stone platform or cairn in close association with the findspots of the most recently discovered stones (NJ54NW 24). The magnetic survey recorded a number of linear anomalies, most of which run roughly E–W across the field and appear to represent the old routeways crossing the haughland and connecting two fords. A number of additional anomalies were also recorded. The excavation of test pits failed to reveal any archaeological features in association with the anomalies. Evaluative trenches opened over the findspots of the symbol stones and the cairn excavated in 1975 revealed only subsoil. It is possible that any in situ remains may have been removed by intensive ploughing of the haughland over the last few decades.
Archive: University of Aberdeen (currently)
G Noble, University of Aberdeen
O Sveinbjarnarson,
C Hatherley,
2012
