21 August 2022
Participants: Just me
Where: Kingston Hill, 92m/300', P 34m, Tump, OS 66, NT 543 822, Whitekirk Hill, 77m/ 252', P32m, Tump, OS 67, NT 574 816, Traprain Law, 221m/725', P 134m, Hump, OS 67, NT 581 746
I was following the best weather again with a trip to East Lothian. It turned out to be a very pleasant day. The two Tumps were new to me and as they took next to no time to bag I carried on to Traprain Law which I last climbed with Ben in 2017. I parked in Kingston village and walked the short distance to the hill which has a great view of North Berwick Law and a surprisingly rocky summit which required the use of hands on the way down. North Berwick Law.....
The rocky summit.....
Whitekirk Hill was next, it is above the village of the same name and used to be a golf course. There was a convenient parking area west of the village at the entrance to an industrial building. The route followed the lane to the building, then a track and a stile which took me on to the hill. Although the former golf course is now overgrown, the paths are obviously kept cut so it was an easy walk to just short of the trig and then to the summit a few metres to the east and which has a round seated area! The view to North Berwick Law and to the Bass Rock.....
Dunbar and the Lammermuirs.....
Traprain Law which sits in front of the Lammermuirs from this angle.....
West to the distant Pentland Hills with Arthur's Seat also just visible.....
With lots of time available I headed to.....
It is a really interesting hill with connections to the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and the Romans.....
It is easy to see why it was an important settlement, it is steep and in parts rocky and the summit view takes in the surrounding countryside for miles in every direction. Today I shared it with a herd of ponies which graze this hill. Trig, horses and Lammermuirs.....
View towards Dunbar.....
Distant Bass Rock.....
West to the Pentland Hills.....
Traprain is also a good rock climbing area; looking over the cliffs on the southern side.....
East Linton and the Bass Rock.....
Traprain from the west, its more gentle side....
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