THE Stone of Destiny in Edinburgh Castle may or may not be the one taken from Westminster Abbey by Ian Hamilton and co, assuming it was the one returned to Arbroath Abbey (Letters, January 12 & 14). What it surely is not is the Stone of Scone, on which the Kings of Scots were crowned. This was a polished black basalt stone, engraved with symbols, as can be seen in some early depictions of Scottish coronations,
There is no way a lump of rough rock would have been used as the sacred Coronation stone.
The monks of Scone Abbey fobbed off Edward I with the current fake.
When he realised he had been duped, he returned two years later and ransacked the abbey trying to uncover the true stone.
It will be the archaeological find, in Scottish terms of this or any other century, if the true stone’s hiding place can be discovered.
Willie Douglas,
252 Nether Auldhouse Road, Glasgow.
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