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Publication Account
Date 1951
Event ID 1096125
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1096125
212. The Bore Stone, Morningside Road.
This slab of coarse red freestone measures 4 ft. 10 in.in height by 2 ft. in breadth, with a thickness of 10½ in.at the top and 7 in. at the foot; its surfaces are badly weathered and none of the cup-shaped hollows on the front and sides is artificial. In 1852, at the instance of Sir John Stuart Forbes of Pitsligo, it was set on a pedestal in its present position at the N.W. end of the boundary wall of Morningside Parish Church, with an inscribed tablet beneath which states it to be "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" This identification is, however, incorrect as the Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer for that year shows that James IV set out from Edinburgh before the standards were ready; moreover the rendezvous for the muster was Ellem in the Lammermoors, and not the Burgh Muir of Edinburgh (1) as related by Pitscottie (2).
RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941
(1) O.E.C., x, p. 80 and xxiv, pp. 108-125. (2) The Historie and Cronicles of Scotland, S.T.S., i, p. 259·
