Mmmmmmmmmmmm Scones
Posted on 07/24/2007 4:35:37 AM PDT by Renfield
Scottish archaeologists say they have located the exact location of Scone Abbey, where Robert the Bruce is believed to have been crowned king.
The abbey -- founded by Alexander I in 1114 on a site believed to have been sacred for centuries -- was burned during the Reformation. Scone Palace, built in the 16th century and rebuilt in the 19th, survives.
"The importance of Scone -- where kings were made and parliaments met -- is only matched by how little we know about the reality of the place," Oliver O'Grady of Glasgow University told The Scotsman.
O'Grady, one of the archaeologists in charge at the site, said the abbey appears to be larger than historians believed -- about 100 meters (more than 300 feet) long.
The next step, now that the abbey's outlines have been traced, is an archaeological dig.
Bruce was crowned in 1306, defying King Edward I of England. Edward later seized the Stone of Scone, which was placed in Westminster Abbey with the Coronation Chair built to hold it.
The stone was later returned to Scotland and is now in Edinburgh.
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Mmmmmmmmmmmm Scones
You rat, you beat me to it.
With a nice cuppa English Breakfast tea.
Article is incorrect. Robert the Bruce was not crowned on what is today known as the Stone of Scone because Edward I carted it off in 1296, not 1306. If The Bruce was crowned on the Stone of Scone then it was, as one tradition holds, the real stone which the monks of the abbey hid from Edward, giving him a similar stone as a replacement.
Also, there is no record of Edward having been in the Scone area in 1306. He died in 1307 while traveling north for another Scottish campaign.
what is today known as the Stone of Scone
we hid theStone of Destiny and what they returned in in 1996 is just a big lump of stone.
see:
“The Throne of Britain: Its Biblical Origin and Future”
http://www.ucgia.org/brp/materials/throne.pdf
and especially Appendix 7 (The Stone of Destiny) of
“Appendices for the Throne of Britain: Its Biblical Origin and Future”
http://www.ucgia.org/brp/materials/appendix.pdf
thanks.
‘Lost’ Coronation Abbey Unearthed (Robert The Bruce)
BBC | 7-20-2007
Posted on 07/20/2007 5:39:43 PM EDT by blam
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Another little known fact is that Edward I broke a tooth trying to eat the scone of stone.
The Stone of Destiny
http://www.durham.net/~neilmac/stone.htm
According to legend, it came from the Holy Land, where Jacob supposedly used it as a pillow in Biblical times. Transported through Egypt, Sicily and Spain, it was taken to Ireland, where Saint Patrick himself blessed this rock for use in crowning the kings of the emerald isle. It is certainly possible that the Stone may have been used in the coronation ceremonies of the Irish Kingdom of Dalriada from roughly 400 AD until 850 AD, when Kenneth I, the 36th King of Dalriada, moved his capital of his expanding empire from Ireland to Scone (pronounced “scoon”) in what is now Perthshire, Scotland. The Stone was moved several times after that, and used on the remote, western island of Iona, then in Dunadd, in Dunstaffnage and finally in Scone again for the installation of Dalriadic monarchs... The present Coronation Throne was made to house the stone in 1301... According to one legend, the Stone never left Ireland at all. One tale suggests that the original Stone of Destiny was white marble, carved with decorative figures — in no way resembling the plain slab of yellow sandstone with a single Latin cross carved on it that sat beneath the throne in Westminster Abbey for these past seven centuries... On Christmas Day, 1950, four Scottish students, inspired by nationalist sentiment, heisted the Stone from under the Coronation Throne in Westminster Abbey, dumped it in the trunk of their car, and drove off with it. About four months later the rock was recovered from the Arbroath Abbey... Lingering doubts about the provenance of the Stone are unlikely to be resolved: fables are always much more fun than mere facts... The last time the Stone was used was in 1953 for the formal Coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II.
Hmmmm, did they find a Starbucks outline as well?
Just wonderin....(chuckle)
Not to be confused with the stone of Haggis or the stone of crumpet.
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