Cap Law
| Cap Law | ||
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 Cap Law summit |
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| height | 497 m | |
| location | Midlothian , Scotland | |
| Mountains | Pentland Hills | |
| Coordinates | 55 ° 49 ′ 31 ″ N , 3 ° 19 ′ 5 ″ W | |
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The Cap Law , also Gap Law , is a 497 m high hill in the chain of the Pentland Hills . It is located in the west of the Scottish Council Area Midlothian on the eastern flank in the center of the approximately 25 km long range of hills. The hamlet of Carlops is about four kilometers south; the small town of Penicuik six kilometers east. The North Esk Reservoir was dammed around 2.5 kilometers to the southwest . The Cap Law was probably originally known as the “Gap Law”. Due to a typographical error in a historical map, his name changed and was not corrected later.
The neighboring hills are the Green Law in the southwest, the Braid Law in the southeast and West and East Kip in the north. In contrast to most of the surrounding landscape, the Cap Law is made up of trees on the northeast flank.
Surroundings
A cross was once erected on the ridge between Green Law, Cap Law and Braid Law. After its destroyed, ornamented shaft was still in place at the beginning of the 19th century, today only the approximately 1 m × 70 cm measuring base plate remains. It was probably on Monk's Road , an established path the monks used on their way to Dunfermline Abbey , crossing the Firth of Forth at what is now South Queensferry .
In the middle of the 19th century, the discovery of bronze weapons on the eastern slope of Cap Law not far from the Eastside Farm was reported. However, nothing is known about their whereabouts. A Neolithic ax with a length of 115 cm was found 500 m northeast in 2002 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ^ A b S. Falconer: The Pentland Hills: A Walker's Guide , Cicerone Press, 2007, pp. 108-109. ISBN 978-1-85-284494-3 .
- ↑ Entry on Monks in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ↑ Entry on Eastside in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ↑ Entry on Eastside in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
