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Gallow Hill

Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Gallow Hill

Classification Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Gallowhill

Canmore ID 17345

Site Number NJ45SE 1

NGR NJ 4837 5263

NGR Description Centred NJ 4837 5263

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Moray
  • Parish Grange
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Moray
  • Former County Banffshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ45SE 1 centred 4837 5263

See also NJ45SE 27.

(NJ 4835 5260) Cairns (NR)

OS 6" map, Banffshire, 2nd ed., (1905)

A number of small cairns roughly piled into a conical heap said to be the graves of those who fell in a battle between the early Scots and the Danes.

Name Book 1868.

Area centred NJ 4837 5263. About a dozen small stoney mounds were seen in the area. They are stone clearance heaps not cairns.

Revised at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 5 February 1964.

These mounds have almost disappeared due to forestry operations. There is no trace of an associated field system.

Visited by OS (RL) 27 June 1967.

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