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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Niddrie HouseCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.47 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Midlothian Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Edinburgh Nearest Village: Niddrie House
Map Ref: NT29877125 Landranger Map Number: 66
Latitude: 55.929183N Longitude: 3.123976W
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 |
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| 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 | 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 |
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Anne T visited on 28th Oct 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 5 Niddrie House Stone: This has to be one of the saddest little standing stones I’ve seen. Largely hidden by ivy and surrounded by rubbish, in between a largish utility building and a padlocked, disused cemetery, with a bus stop about 10m to the south west and a new estate with many security cameras to the north east. And a splodge of what was red paint running down from the top of the stone, too. If I could have dug this up and taken it home with me, I would.
Half-covered in ivy with a great splosh of pink paint covering the top, this wee stone sits surrounded by established housing with new-build developments blossoming all around. Has one cup mark.
For more information see Canmore ID 52221, which adds that this stone previously stood at an 'unspecified spot east of Craigmillar (and) was, in 1921, used "as a gatepost at the entrance to a private churchyard ... This cup-marked stone has been re-discovered by Mr Wilson at the corner of Greendykes Road and Niddrie House Avenue, a few metres behind a utility building (electricity) and just outside a small burial ground."
This 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 the Standing Stone, Niddrie House, Edinburgh, which includes a description, directions for finding this stone together with nearby parking, and fieldnotes. The Ancient Stones adds that 'the old graveyard immediately to the north may have some lost connection with this stone."
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