Angus HER - NO44SE0019 - GALLOWS HILL

Main Details

Primary Reference	NO44SE0019
Name	GALLOWS HILL
NRHE Card No.	NO44SE19
NRHE Numlink	33616
HES SM No.	NULL
HES LB No.	NULL
Site Form	Standing Structure
Site Condition	Incomplete
Details	Remains of a cairn containing a cist. Described in 1905 as being 'already almost entirely denuded' it was 'removed from Gallows Hill...during the construction of a tank'. A cist was discovered, containing a food vessel and traces of bones. The cist was removed and set up in the garden of Kirkbuddo House. Fragments of a beaker (Clarke's N.2 type), presumably derived from another burial beneath the cairn, were also found, near the cist. The beaker fragments and food vessel were subsequently donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1945. When visited by the OS in 1967, the remains of the cairn, were recorded as about 25.0m in diameter, and 3.5m high. The cist set up in the garden of Kirkbuddo House was dismantled about 1950 and the stones scattered.
Last Update	17/03/2016
Updated By	cherbert

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Date of Compilation

Google Map for NO44SE0019

National Grid Reference: NO 4996 4354

Event Details

Excavations and Surveys

Date M	Date Y	Type	Duration	Director / Organisation	Auspices	Fund	Extent
9	1967			RD	OS

Artefact and Ecofact

Date M	Date Y	Artefact Type	Finder	Recovery Method	Condition	Storage Location	Access No.
	1905	FOOD VESSEL		Stray Find		National Museum of Scotland	EE 132
	1905	BEAKER		Stray Find		National Museum of Scotland	EG 80

Ecofact

Samples
Palynology
Ecofact Notes

Monument Types

Monument Type 1	Monument Type 2	Monument Type 3	Order	Probability
CISTS		SITE OF	B	100
BONES	HUMAN		C	100
FOOD-VESSELS			D	100
BEAKERS			E	100
CAIRNS		REMAINS OF	A	100