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Gallows Hill

Cairn (early Bronze Age), Cist (early Bronze Age), Beaker (early Bronze Age), Food Vessel (early Bronze Age)

What is recorded here

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Gallows Hill as Cairn (early Bronze Age), Cist (early Bronze Age), Beaker (early Bronze Age), Food Vessel (early Bronze Age). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Gallows Hill is an Early Bronze Age cairn, associated with a cist, Beaker, and Food Vessel. It represents a funerary and ritual site indicative of burial practices and social organisation during the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in Scotland.

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