Archaeology Notes

Event ID 690001

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO54NE 6 5729 4921

(NO 5729 4921) Gallows Law (NR)

Cist found 1900 (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1971)

Gallows Law is the remains of a gravel knoll, in which a cist was found, set on the west end of a ridge and isolated by a trench.

The knoll was 8.2m by 5.4m by 2.1m high in 1899, but as a result of gravel-digging only a 2.0m wide sector remains on the east. The trench is c.0.3m deep and 4.0 wide.

The cist was found in 1900 and contained a skeleton (information from A Lyell, Gardyne Castle) but otherwise nothing is known of it.

Visited by OS (JLD) 13 June 1958.

D Christison 1900.

As described.

Resurveyed at 1/2500

Visited by OS (RD) 13 May 1966.