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Cat Law

Cairn (Prehistoric)

Site Name Cat Law

Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 32419

Site Number NO36SW 1

NGR NO 31946 60970

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Angus
  • Parish Kingoldrum
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Angus
  • Former County Angus

Archaeology Notes

NO36SW 1 3194 6096.

(NO 3194 6097) Cairn (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, 1972.

A cairn in the form of a large mass of small stones spread over an irregular circle, but roughly 17.0m in diameter, with a maximum height of 0.5m. A small modern cairn and a shooting butt have been built upon it with some of the stones.

A slight stony mound, 0.3m in height, forms the perimeter of the cairn; it is probably modern.

Whether this is a sepulchral cairn or merely a boundary cairn (3 parishes meet here) could not be ascertained.

Visited by OS (J L D) 22 September 1958.

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.

No change.

Visited by OS (R L) 20 November 1967.

This cairn is situated on the summit of Cat Law, at the junction of the parishes of Kingoldrum, Lintrathen and Cortachy and Clova.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 May 1998.

This cairn, which measures about 17m in diameter and up to 0.7m in height, appears to be heavily robbed. Except for around its edge, the cairn is bare of soil and vegetation, and the exposed rubble has been used to build three small, roughly circular pens or shooting butts, which now stand on its surface.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 8 December 2007.

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Field Visit (22 September 1958)

NO36SW 1 3194 6096.

A cairn in the form of a large mass of small stones spread over an irregular circle, but roughly 17.0m in diameter, with a maximum height of 0.5m. A small modern cairn and a shooting butt have been built upon it with some of the stones. A slight stony mound, 0.3m in height, forms the perimeter of the cairn; it is probably modern. Whether this is a sepulchral cairn or merely a boundary cairn (3 parishes meet here) could not be ascertained.

Visited by OS (J L D) 22 September 1958.

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.

Field Visit (20 November 1967)

NO36SW 1 3194 6096.

No change.

Visited by OS (R L) 20 November 1967.

Note (29 May 1998)

NO36SW 1 3194 6096.

This cairn is situated on the summit of Cat Law, at the junction of the parishes of Kingoldrum, Lintrathen and Cortachy and Clova.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 May 1998.

Field Visit (8 December 2007)

NO36SW 1 3194 6096.

This cairn, which measures about 17m in diameter and up to 0.7m in height, appears to be heavily robbed. Except for around its edge, the cairn is bare of soil and vegetation, and the exposed rubble has been used to build three small, roughly circular pens or shooting butts, which now stand on its surface.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 8 December 2007.

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