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I visited Hully Hill monument, with Pip and the Antiquarian, after a day out in Edinburgh, on my 1999 summer hols. We pulled off the M8 at J2, drove through the petrol station by the A89. In an industrialised area, by a housing estate, by the main road, is a small parkwith a walled mound in the centre - going around it a circular path with 3 standing stones, one at each corner of a triangle, landscaped into the path by some townplanner. Better than being lost to us, but still bizarre. By the largest of the 3 stones, a Renault car had been turned over on it's roof and set on fire, presumably at the end of a joyride. This burnt hulk lay about 5 or 6 feet from the stone. It was nearing twilight, obviously urban and the most surreal standing stone moment I've had. It reminded me that generally The Modern Antiquarian takes me to peaceful serene places, full of beauty, like Stanton Drew or Rollright. This wasn't like that, but then many other stones must have been where cities now are. If Hully Hill hadn't been listed in the Antiquarian, I'd have seen it as a 'piece of '60's public park landscaping. As it was I knew it to be bronze age public park landscaping. The only megalith/burnt motor combination of my young life. A singular experience.

Posted by chrissieboy 14th June 2000ce

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