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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 709900
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/709900
NT08NE 31 c. 0996 8643.
(Area: NT 0996 8843) The ancient gallows of the burgh of Dunfermline was erected about 1 mile NE of the town on the road to Townhill Colliery, at a place named Gallows Bank. The remains of the one last used lay for some time on the roadside a little above the entrance to Head Well, but it was taken away about the middle of the 18th century.
P Chalmers 1844-59.
The 'Gallowgaite' is mentioned in 1602.
E Henderson 1879.
No further information.
Visited by OS (D W R) 18 February 1974.
