Bore Stone, Morningside Road, Morningside, Edinburgh

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'.