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Submitted by austenjohnreid on Sunday, 22 December 2002 Page Views: 10724

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Wright's Houses
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.624 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Midlothian Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Gorebridge Nearest Village: Wright`s Houses
Map Ref: NT36406061 Landranger Map Number: 66
Latitude: 55.834508N Longitude: 3.016983W
Condition:

5	Perfect
4	Almost Perfect
3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0	No data.
-1	Completely destroyed

5 Ambience:

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4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
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4 Access:

5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
3	Requiring a bit more of a walk
2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5 Accuracy:

5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4	co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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**Wright's Houses** submitted by austenjohnreid : View from the feild (Vote or comment on this photo)

Standing Stone in Midlothian

Quite hard to spot from the roadside as it's inside the hedge.

For more information see Canmore ID 53604 which simply says: "This stone stands in a hedgerow on the summit of a ridge 250m SE of Wright's Houses; it measures 0.8m by 0.6m at the base and 1.3m in height."

This standing stone is also featured on The Ancient Stones: A Guide to Standing Stones and Stone Circles in the South of Scotland - see their entry for the Standing Stone, Wright's Houses, Gorebridge, which includes a description, directions for finding this stone together with nearby parking, and fieldnotes. The Ancient Stones adds: "What struck me about this single standing stone was the variety of lichens on its western face and the richness of the red sandstone of the stone itself ... Try and go there in the evening when the sun is low to the west and the lighting conditions will highlight to colours of the stone ….. Local news and gossip has included a startling number of strange events and sightings in the surrounding area … For further information try an Internet search with the words “Gorebridge and “alien” as your search terms."
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NT3660 : Standing Stone by Anne Burgess — by Anne Burgess
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NT3660 : Crossroads by Wright's Houses by Richard Webb — by Richard Webb
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NT3660 : Cattle in a field near Gorebridge by Mike Pennington — by Mike Pennington
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NT3660 : Straw bales, Wright's Houses. by Richard Webb — by Richard Webb
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NT3660 : Geese in a field near Gorebridge by Mike Pennington — by Mike Pennington
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