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Latitude: 55.4673 / 55°28'2"N
Longitude: -2.2306 / 2°13'50"W
OS Eastings: 385516
OS Northings: 619294
OS Grid: NT855192
Mapcode National: GBR D5V6.WY
Mapcode Global: WH9ZS.PVZ3
Entry Name: Bonnie Laws,cairn 700m N of Cocklawfoot
Scheduled Date: 13 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4994
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Morebattle
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Kelso and District
Traditional County: Roxburghshire
The monument is a burial cairn of the Bronze Age situated on the western summit of Bonnie Laws. It measures c. 9m in diameter and is 0.6m high; a modern cairn has been erected on top of it. The area to be scheduled measures 50m in diameter, centred on the cairn, to include it and an area around it in which traces of activities associated with its construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a cairn which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric burial and ceremonial practices. Taken with the other remains of prehistoric activity in the area it has the potential to cast considerable light on those aspects of life unlikely to leave traces in settlement sites with the potential to increase considerably our knowledge of the development and use of the landscape in prehistory.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NT81NE 26.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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