Gallow Hill
Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Gallow Hill
Classification Cairn (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 37011
Site Number NO88SE 4
NGR NO 86441 84866
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/37011
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Dunnottar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO88SE 4 8644 8486.
(NO 8644 8486) Gallow Hill (NR)
OS 6" map, (1938)
Human bones were found here 'not many years ago' while planting trees.
Name Book 1865.
Gallow Hill, an artificial earth-and-stone mound, is probably a cairn, and stands on the highest point of a natural hillock, in a cleared plantation. It is circular on plan, measuring 14.5m in diameter by 1.2m in height, with a flat top 10.0m in diameter. There is no visible ditch. In the SW quadrant is a concrete block, sunk flush with the ground, marking a survey station. The name is still used locally.
Visited by OS (R D) 22 July 1965.
(NO 8644 8486) Gallow Hill (NAT) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1973)
Field Visit (March 1982)
Gallow Hill NO 864 848 NO88SE 4
On the summit of Gallow Hill, 260m NE of Dunnottar Square, there is an earthen mound, possibly a barrow, measuring 15.5m in diameter and 1.8m in height; in the 19th century human bones were found in it.
RCAHMS 1982, visited March 1982
(Name Book, Kincardine, No. 6, p. 46)
