Out! Open access publication of ‘Life in pieces: lessons in the value of fragments from the secret lives of the Stone of Scone / Destiny’

My illustrated paper on the ‘discovery’ and significance of the many fragments of the Stone of Destiny has today been published online by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society of Antiquaries of London. It’s the first peer-reviewed output of the research funded by the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust, yet was an unexpected part of that planned research journey. You can read it for free here.

I’m still keen to hear further from other people who have stories to share about fragments and close relatives of Bertie Gray for what they can add to the picture, including in relation to his production and curation of replicas (contact details here). This is a story that continues to grow as more fragments emerge from documentary sources (newspapers and archival sources, in the main), or people get in touch with me.

I am grateful to all funders of the wider project, not least at the stage that findings on Stone fragments was not even anticipated (see here).

Fragment of Stone now in Queensland Museum, accompanied by letter of certification and Bertie Gray’s business card. Image provided through kind offices of Dr ELizabeth Bissell. (c) Queensland Museum H2400.1-3, photographer Peter Waddington

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