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Field Visit
Date 4 January 2011
Event ID 618010
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/618010
St. Margaret's Stone is a large rectangular block of sandstone which measures about 2.6m in length by 1.4m in height and 0.45m in thickness. In recent years it has been moved some 70m from its previously recorded location (NT 1091 8504) to its present position on the N side of the southern of the two entrances (Grange Drive) into Pitreavie Business Park from Queensferry Road. Here, it has been set up in a plinth which incorporates a stone bench on its S side. The S face of the stone is heavily cup-marked. Although the Ordnance Survey was of the opinion in 1961 that these cups were the result of natural weathering, a number have raised rims, several are clearly linked by gutters and in the bottom left corner there seems to be a cluster forming a crude rosette. An inscription ‘SAINT MARGARET’S STONE’ has been incised into a rectangular panel cut into the surface of the stone, truncating several cupmarks in the process. The S face of the stone also bears two incised symbols resembling mason’s marks. The plinth below the stone bears the incised inscription ‘ACCORDING TO TRADITION MARGARET AFTERWARDS QUEEN OF MALCOLM CANMORE RESTED ON THE ABOVE STONE A.D. 1069 WHEN ON HER WAY TO DUNFERMLINE’.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 4 January 2011.
