Law Of Keithock
Cairn (Early Bronze Age), Cist(S) (Early Bronze Age)
Site Name Law Of Keithock
Classification Cairn (Early Bronze Age), Cist(S) (Early Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Hare Cairn
Canmore ID 36048
Site Number NO66SW 2
NGR NO 62200 63624
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Angus
- Parish Stracathro
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO66SW 2 6220 6362.
(NO 6220 6362) Stone (Nat) Hare cairn (NR) (Site of) (Nat)
OS 6" map, (1959)
Hare cairn or the 'Law of Keithock' was a large, conical cairn of stones 20' high and 45' in diameter at base surmounted by the 6' standing stone that now marks the site.
J A Campbell 1881; A J Warden 1880-5.
The cairn was removed in the early to mid 19th century and two cists containing human remains were found about 26 yds SW of the present position of the stone.
Name Book 1860.
Standing stone still marks site of cairn
Visited by OS (J L D) 15 July 1958.
No trace of the cairn. The 'standing stone' is mounted on a boulder.
Visited by OS (I S S) 31 August 1971.
Note (1983)
Law of Keithock NO 621 636 NO66SW 2
It is reported that before its destruction in the early 19th century this cairn measured 14m in diameter by 6m in height and was surmounted by a standing stone. Two cists were found about 24m SW of the present position of the standing stone, which has been
re-erected on the site of the cairn.
RCAHMS 1983
(Stat. Acct., xxi, 1799, 123-4; Name Book, Forfar, No. 79, pp. 35-6).
