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Nine Stone Circle

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My first post of 2017 is part of my New Years resolution and that is to get the maps out and visit some new places close to home.  I also intend to carry out some personal projects this year and one of these is to photograph the many standing stones and stone circles that are scattered around the countryside here in East Lothian and The Scottish Borders. The first images taken for this project is a site up in the Lammermuir Hills not far from Whiteadder Reservoir.  The Ordinance Survey map for the area has it marked as a stone circle near Nine Stone Rig.   I have downloaded the Ordinance Survey APP for my iPad and for a relatively small annual fee I can access every OS map for the whole of the UK.  While I still love having and using a physical, paper map, the APP is very useful. I decided to head up there this evening, parking the car off the road before hiking about half a mile up the hill to the spot where the nine low lying stones/ large boulders a...