Dun site: Dun Sgibinis

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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 07669 47109, NM 07698 47117, NM 07711 47093: An Dùn, Rubha Sgibinis Resistivity survey was conducted over the area occupied by the denuded remains of the Atlantic roundhouse and its outworks. Despite minimal soil cover the survey produced extremely useful information about the location of the entrance to the roundhouse, possible levelling platform or perhaps even an earlier structure underneath the surviving wall arc, as well as multiple secondary structures.

Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 2009, 51–2.

Beveridge, E. (1903) ‘Tiree and Coll’. p. 83.

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