Angus HER - NO44NE0018 - GALLOW HILL

Main Details

Primary Reference	NO44NE0018
Name	GALLOW HILL
NRHE Card No.	NO44NE18
NRHE Numlink	77530
Site Form	Documentary Record Only
Site Condition	Destroyed
Details	Site of a gallows and of probably related burials. According to local tradition criminals were executed on this slight eminence in Whitehill Wood in feudal times. On 31st January 1953 the burials of two adults were exposed by the uprooting of a tree during a gale according to F T Wainwright in letter to Ordnance Survey. 28 May 1958.
Last Update	13/08/2010
Updated By	cpalmer

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National Grid Reference: NO 4560 4929

Event Details

Excavations and Surveys

Artefact and Ecofact

Ecofact

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Palynology
Ecofact Notes

Monument Types

Monument Type 1	Monument Type 2	Monument Type 3	Order	Probability
GALLOWS		SITE OF	A	100
BURIALS		SITE OF	B	100