Ballownie
Barrow (Prehistoric)
Site Name Ballownie
Classification Barrow (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 35948
Site Number NO66NW 20
NGR NO 61124 65111
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Angus
- Parish Stracathro
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO66NW 20 6113 6510.
(NO 6113 6510) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959)
Sometimes called Law Hillock
Name Book 1860.
A mutilated turf covered mound of earth and few stones, situated in a wood. It is truncated on the NW by a road, on the SE by a terraced track, and has also been quarried. It now measures c. 26.0m NNE to SSW overall which may be the original diameter, by c 20.0m transversely. It is probably a barrow. Immediately outside the S arc is a denuded bank c 2.0m wide, which does not follow the curve of the mound and may be a later plantation dyke. The name 'Law Hillock' is no longer known.
Resurveyed at 1:2500
Visited by OS (J L D) 15 July 1958 and (R L) 26 August 1971.
Note (1983)
Ballownie, Law Hillock NO 611 651 NO66NW 20
Immediately N of Ballownie farmsteading there is a barrow measuring 26m in diameter by up to 4m in height. Quarrying has disturbed the NW side.
RCAHMS 1983
(Name Book, Forfar, No. 79, p. 28).
