Part 3 of this which will conclude this location.
I did walk around this site - mainly when I was asking in the pub about the accident, and also have been in the garage / shop to pay for fuel and buy some items in passing. I walked around that side then crossed over to look on the other side and then back towards the pub.
I saw something else there.
It was a hanging.
It wasn't in the field either - but more where the road and bungalow is from that upper side. The road wasn't there, and the pub was smaller, but at the back was a small crowd of people around a wooden structure. It looked like a jetty - with about 3 steps up (what I could see above the people) and a short flat area about 15 foot long, then a door frame type structure at the end. There were several men on the flat area talking to the crowd, then one man was taken along and the rope put up over the frame. Then he was kicked off the end. He didn't drop far, so was only a few feet off the ground. I also saw a post near the pub with a cage on it - and his body in that also.
From the clothing I am guessing at the 1400's so I started research there.
I found an old map of 1350, that showed two buildings on that spot, but the crossroads went between them. I checked with modern maps and they have changed the way the roads meet there in recent times. Now the road sweeps around, and that section of road is new. - as is the bungalow, but the pub was still there.
I also found out that the pub used to be the building that is now the garage. It also had stables at the back and was a coaching inn. What is now the pub - used to be a tollbooth!
I also found on the map the city limit marker. This tollbooth was a place where the taxes were collected for using the road into town, and according to Scottish law - also a small prison of 2 cells, and a place where the sheriff would declare the law - often to the sound of a drum to get people's attention.- the Pub is still called The Drum!
Judges didn't hold court all the time back then. They toured the country listening to trials in each area called a circuit. It is very likely this man was held until trial there - until a Judge visited to declare sentence. If he was to be hung - it was often done at the city limit, and the body often displayed in a metal cage at this spot to warn others.
So the location is correct, and the building being a prison is correct, and if anyone was hung it is likely to be there. I just can't find out who it was.