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Sair Law
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Sair Law
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Scar Law Knowe; Tofts; Carsehead
Canmore ID 72074
Site Number NN92SW 30
NGR NN 94765 23209
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/72074
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Fowlis Wester
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN92SW 30 9476 2320.
'In giving a description of [Inchaffray] Abbey in 1789... to the north on a rising hill was a place called Scar Law Knowe where they tried their criminals; and on the south side was a littile mound called Tillie Chandu on which they were executed and where the executioner's lodge stands to this day.'
S Cowan 'Three celtic earldoms: Atholl Strathearn Menteith' [Edinburgh 1909] p. 59
This mound is situated on the summit of a gravel ridge, lying within and largely defined by a wall enclosing an area 30m in diameter; it is a maximum of 1.5m high. The mound is locally known to be a burial mound, yet it seems until now to have escaped formal notice.
G J Barclay 1991.
This cairn is situated on a low spur at the SW end of a ridge about 450m WNW of Carsehead steading (NN92SE 34.00). It measures about 22.5m from N to S by 21.5m and up to 2m in height; it is enclosed by a plantation-bank and bears some mature trees. Traces of a possible excavation are visible on the S side, and disturbance caused by rabbit burrowing suggests that the mound is largely earthen.
Visited by RCAHMS (RJCM, JRS), 9 November 1995.
