Stacked bales, Tranent

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Stacked bales, Tranent

Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 13 Sep 2008

These look like the bale stacks we used to build with traditional bales, but are simply two big bales on top of each other. Deep in the East Lothian coalfield, but just arable land and houses now. There is still coal here, but permission has not been granted for open cast quarrying.

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Image Location

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Latitude
55.940697
Longitude
-2.96341