Site type STANDING STONE(S)
Canmore ID 47758
Site Number NS96NE 2
NGR NS 9881 6983
Council WEST LOTHIAN
Parish BATHGATE
Former Region LOTHIAN
Former District WEST LOTHIAN
Former County WEST LOTHIAN

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Archaeological Notes

NS96NE 2 9881 6983 to 9874 6983.

(A: NS 9881 6983; B: NS 9874 6983) Standing Stones (NAT)
OS 6" map (1913)

Standing stone 'A', 5 1/4 high, occupies a conspicuous position on the summit of a ridge. Many years before 1902, the father of Mr Carlaw, the farmer of Gala Braes, found human bones when digging at the base of this stone.
'B', 224' W of 'A', is the stump of a second standing stone, on the crown of a sand-hillock, though at a lower level than 'A'. Two other fragments of this stone lie on the adjacent slopes. It has obviously been previously broken, repaired and re-erected near its original site by being fixed into a base of mortar-set stones. Coles states that when complete it would have stood 4'6 1/2" high and 8' - 9' in girth at the base; the RCAHMS consider that its original height was only 3 1/2/' and 5' in girth.
RCAHMS 1929, visited 1926; F R Coles 1903
Visited by OS (JLD) 25 November 1952

These stones are as described.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (BS) 9 August 1974

Coles, F R (1903b) 'Notices of (1) the camp at Montgoldrum ... in Kincardineshire; (2) a stone circle called The Harestones in Peeblesshire; (3) a cairn and standing stones at Old Liston, and other standing stones in Midlothian and Fife; (4) of some hitherto undescribed cup and ring-marked stones; and (5) recent discoveries of urns', of urns', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol.37
Page(s): 205-7

RCAHMS (1929) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Tenth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the counties of Midlothian and West Lothian, Edinburgh
Page(s): 189, No.293 Held at RCAHMS A.1.1.INV/10