The Stone of Scone, an oblong slab of weathered sandstone, has been the source of mystery and intrigue for centuries. Also referred to as the Stone of Destiny, this ancient and enigmatic treasure ...

Professor Sally Foster, from the University of Stirling, is painstakingly collating the history of as many of the pieces as ...

While the existence of fragments from the sandstone block returned in 1951 have been known – an inch-sized piece was gifted ...

She has also tracked the fate of other, more official, fragments of the Stone of Scone which were taken as geological samples in the 19th century. The Stone of Destiny was moved to its new home at ...

Foster says that together the fragments form an interesting new strand of the centuries-old history of the Stone of Scone. However, the exact location of the majority of the small chips remains ...

Edward had swiped the Stone from the Perthshire Abbey of Scone (rhymes in Scotland with boon, in England with lone), where it had formed the base of another chair in which the Kings of Scotland ...

Her project has also tracked the fate of other, more official, fragments of the Stone of Scone which were taken as geological samples in the 19th Century. Prof Foster added: "It would be lovely to ...

A SEARCH is under way to trace the stories of more than 30 fragments of the Stone of Destiny which separated from the ancient ...