Preston Cross, often said to be the finest mercat cross in Scotland. Erected in the early 1600s, it still stands on its original site, though the world around it has changed in a way that now makes its location look quite odd. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/prestonpans/prestoncross/index.html
Dirleton Castle Tower: tower house in East Lothian.
Listed building LB1525
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17569593
Historic Environment Scotland lists 28 notable sites within 1km distance.
Bass Rock seen from the superb beach at Seacliff in East Lothian, a place that comes complete with a ruined castle and a contender for the title of Scotland's smallest harbour. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/northberwick/seacliff/index.html
Bit bright out there all the same.
This is rather nice, newly on the National Library of Scotland Maps website: East Lothian Field Names Recording Project. I'm having fun already looking up field names for some ancestral farms around Gifford, Garvald and Saltoun. A project still in progress. https://maps.nls.uk/projects/field-names/project/
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