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Gallows Hillock
Execution Site (Post Medieval), Human Remains (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Gallows Hillock
Classification Execution Site (Post Medieval), Human Remains (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Drumnahive; Kildrummy
Canmore ID 17081
Site Number NJ41NE 11
NGR NJ 4662 1762
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17081
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kildrummy
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ41NE 11 4662 1762.
(Name: NJ 4662 1762)
Gallows Hillock (NAT) (NJ 4662 1762)
Human Remains found AD 1899 (NAT)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1902)
Gallows Hillock, once the site of a gallows, is a small eminence or enclosure (Name Book 1867) According to Simpson (W D Simpson 1943), the waste products of a possibly Mesolithic flint industry (using Buchan flint) were dug up on the hillock.
Name Book 1867; W D Simpson 1943.
The summit of Gallows Hillock (a fairly flat-topped eminence) is just to the east of the siting symbol and central to the published name. The sandpit shown on the OS map is approximately on the edge of this flattish summit. No evidence of flint-working could be found.
The name Gallows Hillock is still known locally but nothing is known of the gallows or the human remains.
Visited by OS (A A) 6 January 1969.
The site of Gallows Hillock is marked by a low rise in an arable field about 200m WSW of Drumnahive farmsteading (NJ41NE 77). The top of the rise, however, has been truncated by sand extraction; the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, 1902, sheet li.SE) depicts the sand-pit, which is also revealed by cropmarks on vertical aerial photographs (106G/Scot/UK 139 3070-2, flown 3 July 1946).
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW), 5 June 1997.
