<< Text Pages >> Aberlady Bay - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in East Lothian
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Aberlady BayCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 3.332 km away from the location you searched for.
County: East Lothian Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Gullane Nearest Village: Aberlady
Map Ref: NT46768022
Latitude: 56.011937N Longitude: 2.855475W
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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Although not recorded on Canmore, this now fallen standing stone is featured on the Ancient Stones: A Guide to Standing Stones and Stone Circles in the South of Scotland - see their entry for Stone, Aberlady Bay, Aberlady, which includes a description, directions for finding the stone with nearby parking, folklore and fieldnotes.
The Ancient Stones tells us: "This large recumbent stone caught my eye one Sunday evening when returning from North Berwick. It lies on the foreshore just a few metres west of Aberlady village and measures 2.35m long x 1.20m wide x 0.75m thick. The stone is well rounded, most likely by the tides, as it presently lies between high and low tide marks. One end is pointed and the stone is of a type local to the area. There is no known prehistoric associations with this stone and whether it stood upright is unlikely ever to be known, unless time travel is developed. I'm working on that!" They add that "one possibility is that the stone is a fallen boundary stone."
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