Category Archives: Lothian, West

Kipps, Linlithgow, West Lothian

Posted on July 1, 2018 by

Stone Circle (destroyed):  OS Grid Reference – NS 9909 7387 Also Known as: Canmore ID 47920 Archaeology & History In an Address to the Scottish Society of Antiquaries in the middle of the 19th century, Sir James Simpson (1862) pointed out … Continue reading →

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Gormyre, Torphichen, West Lothian

Posted on March 12, 2018 by

Standing Stone (destroyed):  OS Grid Reference – NS 9836 7315 Also Known as: Canmore ID 47916 Archaeology & History A couple of fields east of one of Torphichen’s Refuge Stones (a prehistoric thing by the look of it!), another standing stone could … Continue reading →

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Cairnpapple Carvings, Torpichen, West Lothian

Posted on May 21, 2014 by

Cup-Marked Stones:  OS Grid Reference – NS 98717 71739 Archaeology & History A profile of two seemingly trivial cup-marked stones is called for, out of memory for the carvings and also because they are now hidden in some vault somewhere, … Continue reading →

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Gala Braes (1), Bathgate, West Lothian

Posted on May 21, 2014 by

Standing Stone:  OS Grid Reference – NS 98818 69839 Also Known as: Canmore ID 47758 Getting Here Various ways to get here: from Bathgate either take the Drumcross Road eastwards and up, or north up the Puir Wife’s Brae till … Continue reading →

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Standing Stone, Linlithgow, West Lothian

Posted on October 26, 2012 by

Standing Stone (destroyed):  OS Grid Reference – NS 99 77 Archaeology & History Not included in the Canmore listings, nor that of the Scottish Royal Commission (1929), this lost standing stone once stood somewhere in Linlithgow town itself.  It was referred … Continue reading →

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