Barn's Ness

I think that I found the fossil of yesterday’s blip on the beach at Barn’s Ness so was interested to see an interpretation of that area when I visited the exhibition of the new Scotland’s ScotlandsTapestry today. Perhaps those early people walked by the very same rock 10,000 years ago.

The description says
Encampment at Cramond.
Scotland’s First House at Barn’s Ness,
East Lothian c8000 BC
The pioneers left only gossamer traces. At Cramond, near Edinburgh, the postholes left by the whippy green rods needed to make a bender tent encampment have been found. And more spectacular, larger postholes were excavated at Barns Ness in East Lothian and interpreted as the earliest substantial house yet found in Scotland. Shaped like a big tipi and made from tree-trunks canted inwards, it sheltered a large family whose hunting and gathering range included the sea and the seashore nearby.

It is really worth visiting and I hope to return when the crowds are smaller.