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Northern Picts: Archaeology of Fortriu Project Geophysical Survey
Date 7 September 2013 - 10 September 2013
Event ID 993982
Category Project
Type Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/993982
NH 746 845, NH 744 848 and NH78SW 26 A programme of archaeological work was carried out, 7–10 September 2013, as part of the Northern Picts: Archaeology of Fortriu project. A geophysical survey was conducted, which aimed to contextualise the landscape location of the Pictish symbol stone (NH78SW 17), which was found at Ardjachie during ploughing in the 1960s. A total of 28 20 x 20m grids were surveyed using gradiometry and 9 grids using resitivity. The geophysical surveys showed few features with the exception of one round, c10m diameter, anomaly identified in the resistivity survey. A test pit suggested this was simply a variation in the subsoil.
A DGPS survey was conducted on the peninsula to map features which had been identified by local society members. The features included midden layers (NH78SW 25) and other unrecorded structural remains of uncertain date. Pottery recovered from one of the middens has been provisionally identified as Beaker pottery and was found in association with a finely worked flint tool.
Archive: University of Aberdeen
Funder: University of Aberdeen, Development Trust, University of Aberdeen and Tarbat Discovery Centre
Gordon Noble and Oskar G. Sveinbjarnarson, University of Aberdeen, 2013
(Source: DES)
