Bore Stone, Morningside Road, Morningside, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Memorial.

Bore Stone, Morningside Road, Morningside, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
muted-threshold-claret
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Memorial
OS grid reference
NT 245 715
Coordinates
55.93122, -3.20986
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Bore Stone is a slab of coarse red freestone that has weathered significantly. It is situated on a stugged ashlar gate pier at the northwest end of the boundary wall of Morningside Parish Church, where it was placed in 1852.

There is a metal plaque attached to the stone with the following 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,'

which is followed by a quote from Sir Walter Scott's poem 'Marmion'.

Local climate

Bore Stone, Morningside Road, Morningside, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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