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Cumbernauld, Towe Hill
Mound (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Cumbernauld, Towe Hill
Classification Mound (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 45820
Site Number NS77NE 17
NGR NS 7770 7576
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/45820
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish Cumbernauld
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cumbernauld And Kilsyth
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS77NE 17 7770 7576.
Near the house of Cumbernauld, there is an eminence called the Towe Hill, supposed, from the name, to have been a gallows-knowe.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845 (Rev J Watson)
Towe Hill is an artificial knowe in the bottom of the Vault Glen, east of Cumbernauld House. During the construction of the railway it was partly destroyed and now presents the appearance of an oral mounds, having its west side cut away almost to the middle. Whin rock shows on the mutilated face. (Published on OS 6" 1864 as Towe Hill (NR))
Name Book 1860
A natural outcrop. Not prehistoric.
Visited by RCAHMS 16 July 1977
