Law Of Baldoukie
Barrow (Neolithic) - (Early Bronze Age)
Site Name Law Of Baldoukie
Classification Barrow (Neolithic) - (Early Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Law Shed
Canmore ID 33697
Site Number NO45NE 4
NGR NO 4671 5883
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Angus
- Parish Tannadice
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO45NE 4 4671 5883.
(NO 4671 5883) Law (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959)
The remains of the Law of Balduckie (Statistical Account [OSA] 1791-9) a conical tumulus, now much reduced by cultivation. The field in which it stands is still called 'Law Shed'. (See NO45NE 8.) Probably a tumulus (information from OS Field Investigator (JLD) 18 August 1958).
Name Book 1862; OSA 1791-9.
The "Law of Balduckie" (name not confirmed), most probably the remains of a tumulus, is now a low mound spread by ploughing. It measures 23.5m (E to W) by 20.5m and 1.1m high.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (TRG) 5 January 1977.
Not found by OS Reviser, Nov 1983.
Note (1983)
Law of Baldoukie NO 467 588 NO45NE 4
What may be the remains of a barrow, measuring 22m in diameter by 1.1m in height, are situated 140m E of Baldoukie farmstead.
RCAHMS 1983
(Name Book, Forfar, No. 82, p. 87).