Open Questions

Is the stone now held at Perth Museum the same stone used in Scottish royal inaugurations before 1296, or a substitute?

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Divinity Atlas. "Is the stone now held at Perth Museum the same stone used in Scottish royal inaugurations before 1296, or a substitute?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/is-the-stone-now-held-at-perth-museum-the-same-stone-used-in-scottish-royal-inaugurations-before-1296-or-a-substitute.

APA Style

Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Is the stone now held at Perth Museum the same stone used in Scottish royal inaugurations before 1296, or a substitute?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/is-the-stone-now-held-at-perth-museum-the-same-stone-used-in-scottish-royal-inaugurations-before-1296-or-a-substitute

BibTeX

@misc{divinityatlas-is-the-stone-now-held-at-perth-museum-th,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Is the stone now held at Perth Museum the same stone used in Scottish royal inaugurations before 1296, or a substitute?},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/is-the-stone-now-held-at-perth-museum-the-same-stone-used-in-scottish-royal-inaugurations-before-1296-or-a-substitute},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Open Question

No documentary or physical evidence has ever settled whether monks at Scone hid the genuine stone and gave Edward I a substitute in 1296. The question has never been resolved.

What would resolve this Discovery of a contemporary thirteenth or fourteenth century record describing the 1296 removal in enough detail to confirm or rule out a substitution, or a comparative petrological study against any stone independently documented as being at Scone before 1296.

OpenMedieval history, geologyPerth Museum (institutional record)

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