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Cammo is a Bronze Age standing stone located in Midlothian, Scotland. The monument survives as a single upright stone of modest dimensions, representing the class of ritual or territorial markers characteristic of Bronze Age settlement patterns in the Scottish lowlands. Such stones typically served functions relating to burial practices, territorial demarcation, or ceremonial activity within Bronze Age communities. The stone's preservation within the landscape makes it an important archaeological record of early metalworking period activity in the region.
Cammo,standing stone is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6189. View the official record →
Cammo is a Bronze Age standing stone located in Midlothian, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6189.
Cammo,standing stone dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a standing stone. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cammo,standing stone is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM6189.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Union Canal, Fountainbridge to River Almond (4.4 km), Baberton Mains,enclosure 400m W of (5.2 km), Dalmahoy,cross slab,St Mary's Church (6.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Cammo,standing stone's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cammo,standing stone stands on Strathclyde Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, strathclyde group type.