Dun site: An Dun, Balephetrish
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An Dun, Balephetrish
Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project: Tiree Atlantic Roundhouses Surveys Darko Maričević, University of Reading
The following surveys of Atlantic roundhouses on Tiree were conducted in the summer of 2007 in the course of now completed PhD research into the later prehistory of Tiree and Coll. A magnetometry survey was conducted with a Bartington Grad601 dual sensor gradiometer in zigzag mode at 0.5m traverse spacing and 0.25m interval reading. Resistivity surveys were conducted with the Geoscan RM15 resistivity meter with twin probe array, mobile probe span 0.5 m, traverse spacing 0.5 m, interval reading 0.5 m.
NM 0130 4805 (centred on) An Dùn, Balephetrish
Resistivity survey was conducted over the area occupied by the denuded remains of the Atlantic roundhouse and its outworks. The survey results display great polarity between the resistance of the southern and northern halves of the wall arc. The southern part showed much higher resistance consistent with the large amount of rubble debris. There is evidence for an intramural hollow in the NE part of the wall arc, but it is not clear how far it extends or if it would be wide enough to be habitable. Anomalies interpreted as multiple secondary structures are scattered in the interior and the perimeter of the roundhouse structure
Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 2009, pp. 51–2.
Beveridge, E. (1903) ‘Tiree and Coll’. p. 105
Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project: Tiree Atlantic Roundhouses Surveys Darko Maričević, University of Reading
The following surveys of Atlantic roundhouses on Tiree were conducted in the summer of 2007 in the course of now completed PhD research into the later prehistory of Tiree and Coll. A magnetometry survey was conducted with a Bartington Grad601 dual sensor gradiometer in zigzag mode at 0.5m traverse spacing and 0.25m interval reading. Resistivity surveys were conducted with the Geoscan RM15 resistivity meter with twin probe array, mobile probe span 0.5 m, traverse spacing 0.5 m, interval reading 0.5 m.
NM 0130 4805 (centred on) An Dùn, Balephetrish
Resistivity survey was conducted over the area occupied by the denuded remains of the Atlantic roundhouse and its outworks. The survey results display great polarity between the resistance of the southern and northern halves of the wall arc. The southern part showed much higher resistance consistent with the large amount of rubble debris. There is evidence for an intramural hollow in the NE part of the wall arc, but it is not clear how far it extends or if it would be wide enough to be habitable. Anomalies interpreted as multiple secondary structures are scattered in the interior and the perimeter of the roundhouse structure
Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 2009, pp. 51–2.
Beveridge, E. (1903) ‘Tiree and Coll’. p. 105
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