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Submitted by vicky on Sunday, 22 December 2002 Page Views: 9138

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Easter Broomhouse
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.66 km away from the location you searched for.
County: East Lothian Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Spott Nearest Village: Easter Broomhouse
Map Ref: NT6800876615 Landranger Map Number: 67
Latitude: 55.981442N Longitude: 2.514277W
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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
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-1	Completely destroyed

4 Ambience:

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4 Access:

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
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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Anne T visited on 27th Oct 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone: Dusk was falling as we arrived at this site, which I've long wanted to see. We parked by the water treatment works over the road at NT 67718 76493 and walked down the side of the ploughed area of the field until we were level with the stone, then ‘waded’ through the loose, ploughed soil until we reached the stone itself. A lonely spot, although it has great views to the Firth of Forth and Bass Rock in the distance, to the north. It is a tall, sandstone pillar standing in an ocean of brown-red soil. There are indeed 3 cups marks on its western face, along with some modern graffiti. The base of the stone has really been worn away; as the Canmore record says, this is the result of a steam plough cable.

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Standing Stone in East Lothian

More information on this standing stone with cup marks can be found on Canmore ID 57622, which tells us: "Standing stone with cup-marks, Easter Broomhouse: Some 200 yds SSW of Easter Broomhouse is a red sandstone monolith 9ft high and 6ft in girth at its base, where it is roughly rectangular in plan, the east and west faces being 22 ins broad. On the west face there are three cup-marks. The deep grooves on the base of the stone were caused by a steam-plough cable."

The entry goes onto say "In Lothian there are some 35 surviving standing stones, of these five or six clusters between Traprain Law and Dunbar."

This standing stone is also featured on the Ancient Stones website - see their entry for 006 Standing Stone, Easter Broomhouse, Spott, which includes a description, directions for finding this stone, nearby parking and fieldnotes.
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