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Perth Museum: presents the Stone of Scone beautifully (and not far from a giant salmon)
For more than half a millennium, the stone – kept, long ago, at Perthshire’s Scone Abbey – has been used to crown British monarchs; last year, it returned to Westminster for the coronation ...
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Perth Museum – the anticipated return of the Stone of Scone
Its origins are mysterious, but what is known is that it was housed at Scone Abbey, near Perth, until 1296, when it was seized by Edward I, taken to Westminster Abbey and fitted into the base of ...
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William Murray, Lord Mansfield
William Murray, Earl of Mansfield was buried in the north transept of Westminster Abbey on 28th March 1793. He was born on 2nd March 1705 at Scone Abbey (later Palace) in Perth, Scotland. He was a son ...