Ground penetrating radar investigations at North Ballachulish Moss, Highland, Scotland

✍ Scribed by Ciara M. Clarke; Erica Utsi; Vincent Utsi

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 879 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1075-2196
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0763(199906)6:2<107::aid-arp121>3.0.co;2-0

✦ Synopsis

Ground-penetrating radar was used to map the underlying topography of North Ballachulish Moss. Ground-truthing, in the form of sediment coring and test-pitting, provided corroborative evidence for the peat depths as defined by the radar survey. Trial trenching revealed that a suite of radar anomalies identified during the course of the survey related to a buried prehistoric surface with an associated abundance of wooden stakes and twigs.