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Cup and ring stone found in 1887 east of Bank End Lane near Barney Gill
Image credit: Brian Kerr
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Portable 1
Cup and ring stone found in 1887 east of Bank End Lane near Barney Gill
Image credit: Brian Kerr
Today as part of the Scottish Archaeology month we visited Drumtroddan carved rocks, the talk was given by Jane Murray, a local archaeologist.
We discovered as part of the event that most of the panels at Drumtroddan have been damaged by someone or people trying to clean the carvings with what looks like it must have been a wire brush, this of course is getting reported to Historic Scotland.
TO most passers-by it looks little more than a weathered boulder lying forlorn on the side of a farm lane in East Lothian.
The faint markings etched on its sides are barely distinguishable, and to the untrained eye look like nothing more than graffiti scratches.
So when land factor Francis Ogilvy decided to move the heavy stone near Haddington in order to widen the farm lane beside it, he barely thought twice.
What he had no way of knowing is that he was potentially vandalising an ancient and protected monument.
panel record number unknown
Image credit: © Brian Kerr 2007
Recorded as 1n or now known as Judith!
Image credit: © Brian Kerr 2007
