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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Standingstone (East Lothian)Country: Scotland County: East Lothian Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: East Linton Nearest Village: Standingstone
Map Ref: NT57737363 Landranger Map Number: 67
Latitude: 55.953827N Longitude: 2.678509W
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 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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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Anne T visited on 27th Sep 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Standingstone Standing Stone, East Lothian: As we pulled up outside the Standingstone farm house, a lady and her black pug came out of the farmyard. I apologised for turning up out of the blue, but did she know about the standing stone, and she said ‘yes’, asked if I knew where it was, and walked us to it. It was in a little orchard, behind the adjacent cottage. There were glacial striations on the stone, now vertical as the stone had been stood upright.
When talking about the hillfort above us (Tarprain Law) she said “the chieftain was supposed to have thrown his daughter off the top, for falling in love with someone she shouldn’t have. She was supposed to have turned into a robin. The strange thing about here is that we have hundreds and hundreds of robins, and they are here all year. Weird.” She gave a shiver. She told me we were supposed to hug the standing stones.
Brief information on this Prehistoric Standing Stone is recorded on Canmore ID 56405 which describes this as: "In the stackyard at Standingstone farm is a fine tall four-sided monolith, 9ft 2ins in height, the sides measuring 2ft 3ins, 2ft 3ins, 2ft 8ins, and 2ft 5ins respectively in breadth."
They say no markings were seen on the stone, although they add: "The Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB) records that several 'rude' stone coffins' have been found near it."
This standing stone is also featured on Ancient Stones - see their entry for 004 Standing Stone, Standingstone, East Linton, which gives directions for finding this stone, nearest parking and fieldnotes.
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