Gala Braes


Site type: standing stones

Parish: Bathgate

County: West Lothian

Grid reference: NS 9881 6983

Lat / long: 55.91067967, -3.619136884

The historic map is an Ordnance Survey map from 1919 to 1947, and is provided by the National Library of Scotland

A pair of standing stones occupy a commanding position at the summit of a ridge here.

Stone A measures around 1.58m in height. Human bones were found at its base when the local farmer was digging some years before 1902.

Stone B is now just a stump which has been broken and re-erected in a base of mortar-set stones. Two further fragments of this stone can be seen nearby. It stands approximately 68m to the west of Stone A at NS 9874 6983.

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created Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 4:20 pm, last updated Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 4:20 pm