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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Stone Standing Stone Alternative Name: Kingside BurnCountry: Scotland County: East Lothian Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Cranshaws Nearest Village: Crow Moss
Map Ref: NT62586518 Landranger Map Number: 67
Latitude: 55.878313N Longitude: 2.59967W
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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Standing Stone/Stone Setting in East Lothian
This site is recorded as Canmore ID 57490. Located just south of Nine Stone Rig, Canmore tells us in 1913 the site was described as: "a setting of five small stones, forming an irregular pentagon, is situated almost at 1000ft OD, on the sloping hillside some 300 yards S of the Nine Stones. The stones are small, the largest being 1ft 7ins long, and they are from 2ins to 5ins high. The greatest distance between two stones diagonally is 8ft 10ins. Four of the stones are earthfast; three are pointed and two flat. The enclosed area is slightly hollowed in the centre and there is a slight mound to the E."
An updated entry from 1979 revises this to saying seven stones were detected, one by probing, around the edge of an apparently artificial peat mound … The earthfast stones, four of which are red stone (and one of these is uprooted), lie at apparently irregular intervals around the edge and are of random shape and size. It is probably best described as a stone setting. About 18.0m west of this feature is another less coherent example with three stones protruding from its downhill S side. It cannot, however, be assessed with any certainty."
At the same grid reference, the Ancient Stones website includes an entry for 008 Stone, Crow Moss, Cranshaws, which describes a small earth-fast stone not far from two other groups of stones. Ancient Stones gives a short description, directions for finding this site with details of nearby parking and fieldnotes.
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