Latitude: 55.9312 / 55°55'52"N
Longitude: -3.2098 / 3°12'35"W
OS Eastings: 324508
OS Northings: 671568
OS Grid: NT245715
Mapcode National: GBR 8KP.99
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.N5PW
Plus Code: 9C7RWQJR+F3
Entry Name: Bore Stone, Morningside Road, Morningside, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Morningside Road, Bore Stone
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364762
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27536
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200364762
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure Monument
Slab of coarse red freestone, badly weathered, placed on stugged ashlar gate pier at NW end of boundary wall to Morningisde Parish Church in 1852.
Metal plaque with inscription :
'The bore stone in which the Royal Standard was last pitched for the muster of the Scottish Army on the Borough Muir before the Battle of Flodden 1513
It long lay in the adjoining field, was then built into the wall near this spot and finally placed here by Sir John Stuart Forbes of Pitsligo, Bart. 1852'
followed by a quote from Sir Walter Scott's poem 'Marmion'.
The Stone's traditional attribution has been proven incorrect as James IV set out from Edinburgh before the standards were ready.
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