The Amazing Story of the Stone of Destiny.
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- The Amazing Story of the Stone of Destiny.
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The Stone of Destiny, the Stone of Scone, the Coronation Stone, the Westminster Stone or the Stone of Jacob, are all one and the same thing. It has a new home.
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The stone is surrounded in amazing myths and legends and the journey between where it is now, Perth Museum, and where it once stood, Moot Hill, Scone Palace, is but just a short car journey away. During this journey some of these myths and legends will be explored. There is just enough time.
The earliest of these stories starts over 3000 years ago in the holy land where this legend describes the stone as once being used by the biblical figure Jacob, who used it as a pillow. During a dream he witnesses angels ascending into Heaven. Another part of this legend suggests that this stone was anointed and became the pedestal for the Ark in the Temple of Solomon, meaning the stone was linked to the Ark of the Covenant.
The Legend goes that this stone was taken to Ireland by the prophet Jeremiah. It is then associated with Saint Columba who took the stone to Iona as a portable alter.
The stone was kept by the monks of Iona the traditional home of the Scottish Celtic church., until Viking raiding caused them to move it to the mainland, first to Dunkeld and then to Scone. This instinct to protect the stone is also part of another legend surrounding the stone.
Another legend suggests that there is a strong possibility that the monks at Scone Palace did actually switch the original Stone of Destiny when Edward I of England approached to take it in 1296.
This was likely done because the stone was held to be a sacred artefact used in the coronation of Scottish kings, and the monks wanted to prevent Edward from taking the original.
In June 1914, the stone was damaged in a bomb attack by suffragettes as part of their campaign.
In the early hours of Christmas Day, December of 1950, four University of Glasgow student's, broke into the abbey and 'recaptured' the Stone of Destiny from underneath the Coronation Chair. During the repatriation process the stone was broken. Apparently, in rescuing the stone it was dragged along the Abbey floor on a coat that two of the men pulled behind them and a piece weighing about 40kg from the 152kg total broke off! The broken piece, carried by Ian Hamilton was the first piece to make it to the first getaway car, a Ford Anglia.
Ian realised that he did not have the keys to their second car so had to return inside the Abbey to get them from the coat. Working single-handedly, he managed to get the larger piece into the boot of the second car.
The stone was returned some four months later being found in Arbroath Abbey, through a deliberate a tip-off from the group.
On 30th November, 1996, St Andrews Day, over 10,000 people lined the Royal Mile in Edinburgh to witness the return of the stone to Scotland for the first time in over 700 years.
in 2023 the stone was once again returned to Westminster Abbey for the coronation of King Charles III but thereafter it was placed in the New Perth Museum where it will be kept just a few miles from it's original home, with the agreement that it will return south for future coronations.
In deciding what the true story may be there are fascinating accounts all over the internet to review. The story of an origin in the Holy Land is flawed, in part, as the predominant stone type there is Limestone not the locally quarried Perthshire sandstone that the current stone tested as. But what of the switch by the monks? If they did change the stone where is the real stone? Some information suggests that it was taken to the outer Hebrides, the Isle of Skye is also specifically mentioned.
The narrative continues in the film.
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Thank you for sharing 😊 loved this
We were lucky enough to visit Scone Palace in November ❤🏴
Hope you're having a good week
Morgs Jo and Boo 🐕 ❤
Great story.
Thank you so much for the historicial tour. My next visit is in Mai in Blairgowrie and i visit the Stone of Destiny, very very sure. Many greetings from the south of bavaria!
Ich hoffe, Sie genießen Ihre Reise im Mai.
@@explorescotland wie jedes Jahr - ganz bestimmt!
Great wee video.
Thanks. It is really difficult to make a video about a stone you are not allowed to video!
@@explorescotland Yeah, at least you got to film the replica.
great video. Thank you.
I'm no history buff, so when reading the 'scone of stone' in one of Terry Pratchetts discworld books, i didn't realise the significance. Thank you! you both together made a life a bit more enjoyable. Appreciated.
Thank you for your kind comments. Glad you enjoyed it.
The stolen Stone of Scone was recovered from Westminster Abby on Christmas Day 1950 ! On the Dead Sea Scroll's solar calendar, after the Vernal Equinox starting the next Biblical Year, it was placed on the altar in the ruins of Arbroath Abbey on the 11th April 1951.
With a 21st March Vernal Equinox that year, this means that the Stone of Scone was placed on the
altar of Arbroath Abby on the last seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: a Holy High Day !
So in the same BIBLICAL year:
• 1951 was 3400 years and the 68th Jubilee after the Exodus from Egypt ! (Working with a 4BC birth of Christ)
• Before the next Vernal Equinox King George VI died on the 6th of February 1951.
• Queen Elizabeth II immediately ascended the throne - although only later coronated.
i.e. The Stone of Scone was recovered in the Jubilee 7x7 49th year of 1950, and later placed on the High Altar of Arbroath Abby on the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread - in the Jubilee 50th year of 1951 !
The Declaration of Scottish Independence drafted at Arbroath Abby and dated the 6th April 1320, was also in the midst of the Feast of Unleavened Bread:
The vernal equinox was the 20th March that year and the 7th April was the 4th day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread that year: the day of Christ’s resurrection on the Biblical annual calendar.
So 631 years later (6+3+1=10), on the last 7th Day of Unleavened Bread, being a High Day, the Stone of Scone was placed on the High Alter in the ruins of that very same Arbroath Abby, wrapped in the “Saltire” or “Saint Andrews Cross” - the national flag of Scotland.
Saint Andrew was the brother of Peter, and also an apostle and disciple of Christ.
In the 1320 “Declaration of Arbroath” the Scott’s claimed to be Israelites who migrated from Egypt to Spain to Ireland and then to Scotland !
Legend has it that the Stone of Scone would sometimes groan when a king was crowned on it. It is now apparent that the Stone of Scone had a flaw in it. It had a faint fracture that could be the cause of the noise when some weightier kings were crowned sitting on it: the fracture gradually progressed further and further under the weight and hence the “groans”.
When it was removed from beneath the coronation throne in Westminster Abby on Christmas Day 1950, it finally broke into two pieces in the process.
The smaller piece was secretly returned to Scotland almost immediately and the larger piece was returned sometime later.
Once re-assembled and re-enforced into the semblance of one stone, it was placed on the alter as described above.
When it was later back in Westminster Abby, Queen Elisabeth II was coronated on a broken Stone of Scone - what is the significance and implication of that as we see history unfold ???. , ,
When researching the history of the stone on the Internet you can loose days following different threads! Amazing story right enough.