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Gallow Law, Hillend
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Gallows (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Gallow Law, Hillend
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Gallows (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Canmore ID 43701
Site Number NS53NW 3
NGR NS 5313 3538
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/43701
- Council East Ayrshire
- Parish Galston
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kilmarnock And Loudoun
- Former County Ayrshire
NS53NW 3 5313 3538.
(NS 5313 3538) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1968)
A gallows is said to have stood on the summit of Gallow Law (name: NS 531 353). There is also a cairn with most of the stones now removed in which bones, supposedly human, were found.
Name Book 1856
The remains of this cairn are represented by a grass-covered mound 17.0m in diameter and 1.0m high with a few stones protruding through the surface. It is surmounted by a modern monument, inscribed;
"Gallow Hill Cairn, 1926. To the memory of James Smith of Threepwood, who died for civil and religious liberty, 1684' (see also NS53NW 5 and NS53NW 7 ).
Visited by OS (JLD) 22 August 1956
Situated on the SW crest of Gallow Law, this probable cairn is poorly defined and almost indistinguishable from the general undulations of this pasture, hummocky area. A vague scarp, with little evidence of stone content, arcs around the SW side of the modern monument at a distance of 6 to 7m. This scarp is lost around the N where the swelling has no definition.
Revised at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JRL) 23 July 1982
Field Visit (4 September 1942)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
