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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Maiden Stone (East Lothian)Country: Scotland County: East Lothian Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Haddington Nearest Village: Traprain
Map Ref: NT5830774748 Landranger Map Number: 67
Latitude: 55.963922N Longitude: 2.669443W
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 in East Lothian
This stone is recorded as Canmore ID 356169 (Traprain Law Maiden Stone).
Canmore's most recent entry is dated May 2018 and reads: "The Maiden Stone is a block of phonolite, split from the exposed bedrock to its NE leaving a narrow gap in between. It measures 4.2m in length from NW to SE by 0.65m in breadth and up to 1.4m in height. The rock, which bears graffiti on its NE face, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Haddingtonshire Sheet 10, 1855) and the OS surveyors noted that ‘A traditional story is told and believed by the country people that no woman except the[y] be a virgin can pass between these rocks...".
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