OS1/14/11/3

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LAW Gallows Hillock or
Law Hillock
Gallows or Law of Balrownie
Gallows Hillock (Remains of)
Robert Anderson, Mill of Balrownie
Jarvise's Land of the Lindsays
Written on trace
026 "While engaged improving a piece of waste land including a grassy mound called by old people the Gallows, or Law of Balrownie (where it is said the lairds dispensed feudal justice) it was found on excavating this mound that it had been originally raised as a monument and place of sepulture, A dike or circle of rough stones apparently gathered from the adjacent muir was arranged round the bottom, The Circle was 120 feet in circumference, Within, it was filled with earth, brought from the banks of Cruik Water (distant one hundred yards) and raised about 6 feet above the surrounding surface, It contained a stone coffin, constructed with two long pavement-like stones at each side, and a half round one at the head, the whole covered by a heavy slab of whinstone, From the inroads of vermin and insects the coffin was completely filled with mould mixed with a small quantity of bones none of which could be distinguished from another except a small portion of the skull, The head was placed exactly in the centre of the mound and the body laid due south," -- Land of the Lindsays
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STONE CIST FOUND [Law] Stone Cist Found Written on Trace 026 "While engaged improving a piece of waste land including a grassy mound called by old people the Gallows, or Law of Balrownie (where it is said the lairds dispensed feudal justice) it was found on excavating this mound that it had been originally raised as a monument and place of sepulture, A dike or circle of rough stones apparently gathered from the adjacent muir was arranged round the bottom, The Circle was 120 feet in circumference, Within, it was filled with earth, brought from the banks of Cruik Water (distant one hundred yards) and raised about 6 feet above the surrounding surface, It contained a stone coffin, constructed with two long pavement-like stones at each side, and a half round one at the head, the whole covered by a heavy slab of whinstone, From the inroads of vermin and insects the coffin was completely filled with mould mixed with a small quantity of bones none of which could be distinguished from another except a small portion of the skull, The head was placed exactly in the centre of the mound and the body laid due south," -- Land of the Lindsays
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Co. [County] Forfar -- Parish of Brechin

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