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Kellie Law

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Kellie Law

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 34053

Site Number NO50NW 3

NGR NO 5176 0645

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Fife
  • Parish Carnbee
  • Former Region Fife
  • Former District North East Fife
  • Former County Fife

Archaeology Notes

NO50NW 3 5176 0645.

(NO 5176 0645) Cairn (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map (1919)

Cairn, Kellie Law. A large grass grown cairn of small stones. On the west the height is about 4 1/2ft. The diameter is about 56ft. The top is slightly hollow but this may be the work of a military survey party who, many years ago encamped on the hill.

RCAHMS 1933

Generally as described by the Commission except that the cairn appears to be oval, measuring overall 30.0m E-W by 24.0m N-S.

Revised at 25" scale.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 21 August 1968

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Field Visit (8 July 1925)

Cairn, Kellie Law.

About 600 yards south-east of the farm of Greenside and on the crest of Kellie Law, a steep hill which rises to a height of 800 feet above sea-level, is a large grass-grown cairn, constructed apparently of small stones and now slightly hollow on the top. On the west, where the ground beyond is fairly level, it has an average height of about 4 ½ feet . On the east, where the descent is more rapid, excavation would be necessary before any accurate estimate of its dimensions could be arrived at. Its diameter, however, is probably about 56 feet.

A circular depression, 12 feet in diameter and 1 ½ feet in depth, lying immediately to the west of the cairn may be the work of a military survey party who, many years ago, encamped for some weeks on the hill top.

RCAHMS 1933, visited 8 July 1925.

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