STONE 0F DESTINY.
(To the Editor.) Sim—Much has been said about the “Stone of Destiny." Without question it was the coronation stone of the kings of Scotland before the War of Independence. it is not marble, but a piece of Scottish sandstone. Sir Archibald Geikie examined it in 1869 at the request of Dr. W. F. Skene, and said: "As a geologist, I would say that the stone is almost. certainly of Scottish origin; that it has been quarried out of the sandstone district between the coast of Argyle and the mouths of ’l‘ay and Forth; but there is no clue in the stone itsel! to fix precisely its original source." He found no evidence in the stone to suggest that it did not originally belong to the neighbourhood of Scone. the sandstones of which it perfectly resembled.—l am. etc., A SCOT. Hamilton, January 13.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19784, 15 January 1936, Page 9
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