University of Edinburgh researchers created this Drainage Capacity of Soils dataset for the Glengorm area on the Isle of Mull. It was part of a study in the 1980s and 1990s examining prehistoric ritual monument locations and their visibility across the landscape using GIS viewshed analysis. The study incorporated multiple datasets including soils, coastlines, elevation, and archaeological site distributions.
Use Cases
- Conducting viewshed analysis for prehistoric monuments based on the study's GIS application mentioned in the description
- Modeling landscape suitability for archaeological site locations based on soil drainage capacity data
- Integrating soil data with other landscape features like elevation and rivers for spatial analysis as described in the study
Strengths
- Dataset is part of a defined archaeological study conducted by the University of Edinburgh
- Data is integrated with other geospatial layers (coast, lochs, elevation, slope, archaeological sites) as described
- Study period (1980s and 1990s) provides a specific temporal context for the data collection
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- University of Edinburgh
- Collection Method
- Part of a GIS-based archaeological viewshed analysis study
- Time Range
- Study conducted in the 1980s and 1990s
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:30:41.912397; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Glengorm area on the Isle of Mull, Scotland