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White Castle view3 viewsFrom the Rampart Scotland project, this is our view across the Lothians, with Traprain Law in the distance. Fabulous!BAJR
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Hillfort under Ferns!9 viewsUp on Friars nose Fort on the border of the Borders and East Lothian. The secret is not to visit these monuments when the ferns are growing... subtle features may be missed! and Maggie may be lost.!!!BAJR
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Newhailes Shell Grotto, East Lothian18 viewsBuilt c 1770-80 . decorative materials included both inshore and exotic (Far Eastern) shells; fragments from a variety of glass vessels, including wine glasses of the period c 1725-70; minerals, crystals and agates; and industrial waste products. The building was designed to 'smoke' like a volcanic vent. YOu can see smoke to the right in this trial run of the intramural wall vents. BAJR
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Harelaw Vitrified Fort21 viewsThe summit area is bordered by the massive ruins of a timber-laced stone wall about 12' thick, which has been severely mutilated in the N by stone-robbing to provide material for the modern wall, some 4' thick at the base, which misleadingly encircles the summit. vitirified material has been found hereBAJR
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Whiteadder Water and Lammermuir Hills17 viewsA cold April in East Lothian. Drive 25 minutes from Edinburgh and the green (vaguely warm) coast and this is what you get. Wild and cold! Love itBAJR
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Kae Heughs Hillfort17 viewsFabulous Multivallate Hillfort in the Garleton Hills of East Lothian. Spectacular View to the North, South East and West.

More here: http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/56295/details/kae+heughs+barney+mains/
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Bass Rock6 viewsView to the Bass Rock from the Lammermuir Hills, East LothianMaggie
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Traprain Law and North Berwick Law3 viewsView to Traprain Law and North Berwick Law from the Lammermuir Hills, East LothianMaggie
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Trial Trenching in Midlothian18 viewsFist week as a Development Control Archaeologist ... requested 15km of trenches over a massive site. first trench clean! As it turned out... so where the other 14900 metres of trenches ! sorry guys!BAJR
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Roman Tombstone (3) East Lothian12 viewsThe red sandstone artefact was for a man called Crescens, a bodyguard for the governor who ran the province of Britain for the Roman Emperor.

The National Museum of Scotland said the stone provided the strongest evidence yet that Inveresk was a pivotal Roman site in northern Britain.

It was found by amateur enthusiast Larney Cavanagh at the edge of a field.

It had been ploughed up and cleared from the field without anyone noticing its inscription.

Dating between 140 and 180 AD, it features the image
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Roman Tombstone (2) East Lothian14 viewsThe inscription (Lawrence Keppie)

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CRESC[E]NTIS EQ
ALAE SEBOSIA
EX N EQ SING
S[T]IP XV
H F C
 
DIS MANIBUS CRESCENTIS EQUITIS ALAE SEBOSIANAE EX NUMERO EQUITUM SINGULARIUM STIPENDIORUM XV HERES FACIUNDUM CURAVIT
 
‘To the shades of Crescens, cavalryman of the Ala Sebosiana, from the detachment of the Equites Singulares, served 15 years, his heir (or heirs) had this set up.’
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Roman Tombstone - East Lothian14 viewsThe red sandstone artefact was for a man called Crescens, a bodyguard for the governor who ran the province of Britain for the Roman Emperor.

The National Museum of Scotland said the stone provided the strongest evidence yet that Inveresk was a pivotal Roman site in northern Britain.

It was found by amateur enthusiast Larney Cavanagh at the edge of a field.

It had been ploughed up and cleared from the field without anyone noticing its inscription.

Dating between 140 and 180 AD, it features the image
BAJR
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