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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 704101
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/704101
NS77NE 17 7770 7576.
Near the house of Cumbernauld, there is an eminence called the Towe Hill, supposed, from the name, to have been a gallows-knowe.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845 (Rev J Watson)
Towe Hill is an artificial knowe in the bottom of the Vault Glen, east of Cumbernauld House. During the construction of the railway it was partly destroyed and now presents the appearance of an oral mounds, having its west side cut away almost to the middle. Whin rock shows on the mutilated face. (Published on OS 6" 1864 as Towe Hill (NR))
Name Book 1860
A natural outcrop. Not prehistoric.
Visited by RCAHMS 16 July 1977
