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Battle-law, Penicuik
Mound (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn(S) (Bronze Age), Razor (Bronze)(Bronze Age), Stylus (Roman)
Site Name Battle-law, Penicuik
Classification Mound (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn(S) (Bronze Age), Razor (Bronze)(Bronze Age), Stylus (Roman)
Alternative Name(s) Newbigging; Penicuik House
Canmore ID 51625
Site Number NT25NW 14
NGR NT 21 59
NGR Description NT c. 21 59
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/51625
- Council Midlothian
- Parish Penicuik (Midlothian)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Midlothian
- Former County Midlothian
Field Visit (23 February 1970)
NT25NW 14 c. 21 59
No additional information obtained during field investigation.
Visited by OS (RD) 23 February 1970.
Note (1988)
NT25NW 14 c. 21 59
In the early eighteenth century three urns containing cremations were found in a mound which lay at the foot of 'a small eminence' known as the Battle-law, within a mile of Penicuik House (NT 21 59). The mound, which was small and contained few stones, cannot now be located. In one of the urns there was a 'clay lamp'; in another a Bronze Age tanged razor decorated with a hatched-lozenge pattern; and in the third a bronze stylus and case of Roman date (RMS,FT 86-7).
RCAHMS 1988
(A Gordon 1726; J Anderson 1911; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1920; J Curle 1932; J M Coles 1966)
