Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone

Nearest town:
Dunbar (2km NNW)
OS reference:
NT680766
OS sheet:
67
Latitude:
55° 58' 52.4 N
Longitude:
2° 30' 46.4 W
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Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone

C
CARL Aug 6, 2014

A view from the road 31.7.14

Directions:
From Dunbar, take the minor road south towards the hamlet of Spott. The stone is in a field on your left (east) as you head towards Spott.

As with the Pencriag Hill stone I also visited today, Easter Broomhouse was surrounded by a crop of wheat. Again easily seen from the road but a post-harvest visit required for a close up look.

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Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
Standing Stone / Menhir
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Jun 3, 2025

Supposing you should spot something other than cupmarks carved into the stone:

Long Tenure. – The following tenure on the Earl of Haddington’s estate in East Lothian may vie with that on any nobleman or gentleman’s property in the country.
Mr John Dudgeon, present tenant of Easter Broomhouse, near Dunbar, in the year 1769, carved his name on a monumental stone on that farm. Under the noble family of Haddington, Mr Dudgeon’s father and grandfather were successively tenants of Easter Broomhouse, neither of whom were short-lived. We know that Mr Dudgeon, who is now considerably upwards of eighty years of age, is in excellent health, and has a second time, in 1839, carved his name on the same stone as tenant of the farm. – Edinburgh Courant.

Reprinted in the Court Gazette, 26th October 1839.

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