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28th Jan 2023  11:53  by alright_dave

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

An annoying amount of barbed wire fences and scrambling required from NW direction after walking from Dunbar. Excellent views from the top however. Some interesting archeology and history (Battle of Dunbar).

Doon Hill

8th Sep 2022  16:51  by JoeNTMY

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Low visibility, unable to comment on views

3rd Jul 2022  18:07  by NJM

Gridref: NT 68481 75663   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

My second visit, much better weather and stopped a while to take in the wonderful views. 11 Trig points done in under 5 hours, I was thinking that East Lothian is Trig Baggers paradise...should have quit while we were ahead, or gone off to bag Bransly or Cocklaw Hills after this. Instead spent an hour and a half in a futile, frustrating search for Skateraw SB. Bugger!

View North
View East Storm's OS Pillar #409

31st Jul 2021  10:02  by Oldhortus

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

As others up the lane and across the field.

15th May 2021  09:19  by sarm1975

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 8/10

Great views

Doon Hill

9th May 2021  12:08  by rococo1805

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Drove up the track to the car park for the neolithic site and you can see the trig on top of the hill. Great views of Dunbar and the Forth.

7th Feb 2020  16:28  by allankelly

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Easily accessible from the Scottish Heritage Doon Hill car park. There's excessive barbed wire but there's a gap between the fields lined with short wind-battered trees and you can just duck under the wire at the end. Fantastic view over Dunbar and the river. Field ploughed right up to the pillar but pillar in pretty good order.

Dunbar in the background

23rd Nov 2019  11:00  by Mickandkim

Gridref: NT 68482 75662   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Easy route from lane

23rd Sep 2019  12:06  by BigJ

Gridref: NT 68483 75661   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Tackled the road right to the wee car park at the top. Fantastic views all round. Got down safely. With CJ.

19th Aug 2019  12:35  by beckroad

Gridref: NT 68500 75500   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Parked at Pinkerton Y fork road nt704757. Walked uphill on minor road. A sign Doon Hill shows your way up another uphill track. Visited the Anglo Saxon site then crossed a couple of barbed wire fences avoiding the cattle to enter a wheat field. Followed the tractor route to this pillar. A recently refurbished plinth. Commanding great views includes the Bass Rock. Spent time on return to explore the Anglo Saxon Site now shown by cement lines. You need to spend time exploring this location as it is not visible from the interpretation board. Info provided is brilliant.

11th Aug 2019  16:02  by WanderingSal

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

24th Jul 2019  11:40  by senrabyar

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

7th Jul 2019  16:00  by A1Mushroom

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Nice views over the Fourth and East Lothian.

21st May 2019  09:30  by Nick&Rosie

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

The last hill I got to take all three of these dogs to. Can't pass by it now without thinking of Blue.

View North with Blue R.I.P.
View East
View South
View West with Rosie & Watson

9th Mar 2019  20:48  by grannymermaid

Gridref: NT 68400 75600   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

good views over East Lothian. right beside Doon Hill ancient fort hill. Information board. Only a short walk, and two fences to negotiate.

29th Dec 2018  15:08  by slateloose

Gridref: NT 68400 75600   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Stopped off on way to Edinburgh for Hogmanany. Parked in gateway entrance to lane to Doon hill. Short walk along track and through two gate to trig point on top of hill. Great views along the coast.

12th Apr 2018  11:41  by ger

Gridref: NT 68483 75655   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Approach from monument CP. Dull day with no distant views, however what there was, was good (Bass Rock, Dunbar, etc). 7159 is prime.

4th Oct 2017  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: NT 68481 75658   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Track to CP to ESE is a farmer's dirt track with central grassy strip

12th May 2017  14:40  by dugswell2

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Parked in the Historic Scotland car park on Doon Hill after a safe run along the narrow access road and track.

5th Mar 2017  17:14  by Aqueously90

Gridref: NT 68483 75659   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Log #404. Managed to drive right the way to the top in my unconvential trig-mobile. Followed fenceline, over gate, then around field to trig. Great views, and cracking sunset. Trig in good condition with reinforced base. [ExP-275/MiP-34/Rev-6/BM-27/IS-43/Other-19]

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Pillar
Cap missing.
Tantallon and Bass Rock

4th Jun 2015  19:15  by Borderer

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Parked at the gate at the end of the tarmac road only to realize that there is a car park at the end on the grassed track. Interesting site of a Saxon hall freshly manacured. The pillar is a little further on over a couple of sturdy fences. Great view along the coast.

©Borderer

16th Feb 2015  12:00  by jimp

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Wouldn't drive up to the car park. Farmer advised me to park at the gate

16th Nov 2014  13:54  by Mtb Innerwick Stravaiger

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Doon Hill Overlooking Dunbar
Doon Hill Moontan Biker's view http://mtbstravaiger73.blogspot.co.uk/

17th Oct 2014  16:49  by descarte1

Gridref: NT 68481 75655   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

FB faces east-ish with west-ish and north-ish sightholes open. No cap or plug present. Pillar with a large plinth. Was up bagging the nearby Doon Hill Historic Scotland monument and headed up here. Excellent coastal views from here.

5th Sep 2014  19:16  by crhorn

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

20th Apr 2014  13:51  by swampysean

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

20th Apr 2014  13:51  by craftinessa

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Drive through the gate to get to the car park.

22nd Feb 2014  15:13  by coinea

Gridref: NT 68480 75657   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Great views, could see the intersect stations in Dunbar I had photographed earlier. Approached from Doon, left via the track to parking area for Historic Scotland site. Very glad I was on foot. Notice at end of track says half mile track unsuitable for large vehicles--today it would only be passable by tractor!

Doon Hill

14th Apr 2013  13:43  by KipClanMan

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Great views over Dunbar, East Lothian and the Firth of Forth

S7159 Flush Bracket
Trig Point The bass Rock can be seen in the distance. At this time of year it isn't white yet with all the bird doo doo
Trig Point views over east lothian
Trig Point looking towards the North Sea

3rd Mar 2013  16:29  by CJO

Gridref: NT 68482 75656   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

large solid plinth. cap missing. Field has been planted with a grain crop, sheep in adjacent field, easy to walk along field boundary from carpark.

S7159

29th May 2010  15:51  by agentmancuso

Gridref: NT 68482 75654   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Impressive views from this one. Drove all the way up to the car park, no problem.

27th Jul 2009  00:00  by Border Peat

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

drove up grass track to car park cows followed me around field to trig

great view S7159©Border Peat

7th Sep 2008  09:30  by coyotegirl

Gridref: NT 68482 75662   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Special Wardlaw interest, Wardlaws owned all of the Spott area very early, 1300-1400s. Doon Hill overlooks all of Spott.

Seen from fence Could not get in to see it, but took picture from fence. Next trip will get up to it.

23rd Sep 2007  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

vgc, metal cap, deep letters. Pasture: eclectic view includes N Berwick Law, Bass Rock, cement works and Torness NPS. A kind of homecoming for me as I worked on the A1 dualling here during my student days. Road from E becomes progressively rougher; I gave up on the gated part leading to the car park.

19th Jul 2006  19:00  by Grendel

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

The Trig is next to an old fort and burial site with excellent views to Dunbar and across East Lothian. Park at the monument car park.

View from the Trig to the Bass Rock

18th Jul 2006  12:05  by jester2005

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

Some time back I was unable to get logged on as Jester2005 and created the Grendel account (which I logged this trig with at the time). Just noticed this was not logged to my Jester2005 account, so I'm rectifying this.

23rd Apr 2005  18:10  by fasgadh

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Good viewpoint. Barbed wire no problem if like me you are tall enough to stride over. Field empty but young calves next door with anxious mothers. Very good views. Two sighting holes open, concrete base and intact.

Doon Hill Metal
Doon Hill View towards North Berwick Law and Bass Rock.

20th Feb 2005  12:30  by andyc

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Near interesting ruins of Historic 6th Century Bretonic/Northumbrian Hall

1st Nov 2004  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Revisited to photograph.

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12th Jun 2004  18:10  by ipeattie

Gridref: NT 68476 75657   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

You can drive almost all the way to the top of Doon Hill. The road is clearly signposted from the A1. Drove up to the NTS carpark. At the top, the 'road' is just a farm track, but it's OK for a normal 2WD car. Had to squeeze through a fence to get into the field with the trig in it. If you follow the fence along until you are in line with the trig there is a short section with no barbed wire.

Doon Hill - S7159 Approaching the pillar. It's all Doon Hill from here...
Doon Hill - S7159 The pillar.
Doon Hill - S7159 The flush bracket.

9th Jun 2004  17:20  by sky high boys

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Access from NTS carpark only a couple of hundred metres to the East at NT 687756. Interesting 6/7th century archaeological dig site with old building footprints marked out in concrete. Awesome views up the coast (just ignore the open mine and Torness). Trig in good nick with original cap and polished edges to the pillar caused by cattle.

8th Jul 2003  13:05  by clochandighter

Gridref: NT 68479 75665   FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 10/10

Doon Hill is in East Lothian, just two miles south of Dunbar. The summit is used for cattle grazing. Never did find a proper route up Doon Hill from the track to the NW. Fence to climb at top of steep woodland slope. The trig pillar built in 1952 is still in very good condition. The base has been extended to combat ground erosion by livestock. The spider retains its original stamped deep font OSTS plug. The flush bracket faces southeast.

Trig pillar. Note the extended base to combat erosion.
Flush Bracket S7159
View to Traprain Law
View to North Berwick Law Flanked between West Lomond and East Lomond.

28th Feb 2003  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

S7159

14th Jul 1985  13:59  by clochandighter

FB Number: S7159  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

First visit. To record FB number. The pillar was completed 4th September 1952 costing £9.3s.0d. In 1953 this marker was computed for triangulation as tertiary station NT86/T6 in the Berwick secondary block. Like many pillar stations in Secondary Block NT86 the flush bracket was never levelled for height. This trig point was last maintained by the OS in August 1989. Good coastal views.