Law, Dundee
Dundee with the Dundee Law
The Dundee Law is the core of an extinct volcano that formed about 400 million years and today is a landmark in the Scottish city of Dundee.
This elevation (174 m / 571 ft) in the center of the city was used as a settlement and defense space for thousands of years. During the Iron Age, when this was a weir, and on its slopes have been tombs of the period around 1500 BC have been found.
In 1820 he was tunneled for the Dundee - Newtyle railway line. Today is on its summit a viewing platform from where you can see a good 60 kilometers on a clear day, and a monument to the fallen of the two world wars.
The landscape of the Dundee Law is a nature reserve, but is open to walkers.
The term refers Law in Scotland generally a free-standing and from a distance clearly visible volcanic cones, such as, for example, the North Berwick Law.
- Mountain in Europe
- Mountain in Scotland
- Mountain under 1000 meters
- Geography ( Dundee)