Inner Hebrides Archaeological Project – Tiree Mounds Geophysical and field surveys Darko Maričević, University of Reading

NM 06711 49044 An Carnan, Salum
Another coastal burial mound listed by CZAS, ‘A low platform which protrudes from beneath the base of the mound’ (Moore and Wilson 2002: 319, T18), might be due to the spread of the cairn material by the encroaching rig and furrow rather the original feature. The mound and its immediate surroundings were surveyed with magnetometry (30 x 30 m) and resistivity (20 x 15 m). Geophysics proved the artificial origin of the mound and the resistance survey was particularly useful in revealing the nature of the internal structures. The cairn was rubble built and it is distinctly D-shaped, with the straight side, perhaps a kerb, on the southern side. An oval structure is visible in the resistivity results adjacent to the E side of the cairn, while the magnetic survey revealed an overlapping enclosure and a rectangular building underneath the modern track further to the E.

Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 2009, 51–2.