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
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 14 December 1970
Type: Memorial
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

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'.

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