Dabshead Standing Stone, Lammermuir Hills

In the centre of a prehistoric fort (Canmore ID56030) is a monolithic sandstone standing stone. The standing stone, which had previously been held upright by a cairn of c50 stones and iron bars, has now substantially subsided and is leaning at angle of 32 degrees pointing to the NE. The length of the stone above ground level is 3.72m with a width of 0.8m and a breadth of 0.5m. The Stone is 7m NW of the Ordnance Survey Trig point number BM S7405. The area within the fort is rough grazing and Dabshead Hill, on which the standing stone is situated, is general heather and grass moorland. The standing stone is at an altitude of 383m. The stone is not an antiquity but is recorded as being erected on the marraige of the Countess of Meath. Although cup marks have previously been noted on the stone these appear to be geological anomalies that are frequent in this area of the Lammermuir Hills. Recorded as natural feature. Scrap ID 3084 Shot with Canon 7D DSLR 60mm lens 162 images in RAW converted to TIFF.