Mutiny Stones

3D Model

NT 62245 590204.

This stone was found in the sheepfold adjacent to the Long Cairn on the Lammermuir Hills, Scotland. The stones had been robbed from the cairn. Image was taken as depression in stone appeared to be neolithic cup mark. On inspection the depression is likely to be a post hole for a gate in the sheepfold.

Canmore 60309 ‘Mutiny Stones’, a long cairn, is situated in moorland at 1250ft OD. It measures about 270ft ENE-WSW by about 90ft at the E end and 32ft at the W end. The cairn material is irregular bare stones, and where the centre of the cairn is exposed by robbing, many large stones can be seen. The E end of the cairn is almost straight on plan, with small protruberances from what appears to be the true edge of the cairn, at both corners. The N and E edges of the cairn are little disturbed; parts of the S side have been robbed to provide enclosures for sheep. The maximum height of the cairn is 8ft; previously it was given as 18ft.