Archaeology Notes

Event ID 709900

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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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.