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ASCHERSON, N., 2002. Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. London: Granta.

CALDWELL, D., 2018. The Stone of Destiny. Updating the Scholarship. Edinburgh Castle Research. Unpublished report for Historic Environment Scotland.

CALDWELL, D., 2023. The Stone of Scone: the threshold of royal and ecclesiastical power. In: O.J.T. O’GRADY and R. ORAM, eds, Royal and Lordly Inauguration and Assembly Places in North-West Europe. Donington: Shaun Tyas, pp. 12-47.

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FORTEY, N.J., PHILLIPS, E.R., MCMILLAN, A.A. and BROWNE, M.A.E., 1998. A geological perspective on the Stone of Destiny. Scottish Journal of Geology, 34(2), pp. 145-152.

HILL, P., 2003. The Stone of Destiny examined: an overview and discussion. In: R.D.E. WELANDER, D.J. BREEZE and T.O. CLANCY, eds, The Stone of Destiny. Artefact & Icon. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, pp. 11-31.

HILL, P., 2016. The Stone of Destiny: a review of new imaging. Unpublished report for Historic Environment Scotland.

MARCHANT, A., 2018. Romancing the Stone. (E)motion and the affective history of the Stone of Scone. In: S. DOWNES, S. HOLLOWAY and S. RANDLES, eds, Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions through History. Oxford: Oxford Scholarship Online, pp. 192-208.

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Publications arising from this project

FOSTER, S., 2023. Stone of Destiny Study. Westminster Abbey Review, 14 (Summer), 17-21.

FOSTER, S., 2024. ‘The Stone that just keeps on giving’, Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland 2024, 22.

SCOTS INDEPENDENT, ‘New lives for the Stone of Destiny’, December 2024, 9.

MAGIC TORCH COMICS, 2024. The Stone of Scone. A Comic Origin Story

Other resources

You can interrogate an online Sketchfab digital 3D model: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/ stone-of-destiny-edinburgh-castle-4d46d1df627d41a2adc65f6550b2fa9c

A Historic Environment Scotland webpage provides a handy historical overview: The Story of The Stone of Destiny (historicenvironment.scot)

In terms of the events of 1950/51, these short videos are interesting:

1951: Newsreel: Stone of Destiny | #OnThisDay 1951: Newsreel reported on the end of a long search for Scotland’s Stone of Destiny, missing since its removal from Westminster Abbey on… | By BBC Archive | Facebook

How I stole the Stone of Scone | In the late 13th Century, the Stone of Destiny, an ancient symbol of Scotland’s monarchy was seized and taken to Westminster Abbey in London where it… | By BBC World Service | Facebook

This recent video is made in Gaelic by a school child and imagines how the Stone felt when it was moved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz-3yldxW1Q

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