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Probable natural mound used as a burial mound. The Law (or Low) of Coull is mentioned by Ramsay in 1744, surmising that it had 'probably been the place for Thanry or Barron Court'. This interpretation is dismissed as absurd by Crawford, that such a steep-sided artificial mound should be constructed for such a purpose of people meeting on the top. Crawford goes further and identifies this as an aetiological explanation of 'Law' once the meaning of the Old English 'hlaew' or hill had been forgotten. In the 19th century the Law was a regular hillock or tumulus 3.05 - 4.57 m high, which appeared to be intact although cultivated. There was no local knowledge of any finds from the site and the Ordnance Name Book speculated that there were burial cairns on the top. When revisited by the OS in 1977 the Law had been spread by ploughing and measured 40 m east - west x 30 m and was 2 m high and its name could not be verified locally.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
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NO45NW0001 - LAW OF COULL