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.


NL 93286 45460, NL 93313 45477, NL 93326 45447, NL 93300 45432 Dùn Hanais Resistivity and magnetometry surveys were conducted over the area occupied by the denuded remains of the Atlantic roundhouse and its outworks. Combined results of the two complementary surveys revealed the presence of an intramural chamber in the NE part of the wall arc. The results also revealed a complex set of multi- period secondary structures in and outside the roundhouse and the outer wall.
Archive: University of Reading Funder: AHRC; An Iodhlann Archive and Museum, Tiree; SHES, University of Reading

Beveridge, E. (1903) ‘Tiree and Coll’. p. 100.