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Article: Romancing the stone: Scottish sites vie for chunk of history
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- September 25, 1996
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PERTH, Scotland For a slab of sandstone, the Stone of Scone sure
does get around.
Jacob, the Hebrew patriarch, supposedly slept on it, pilgrims
hauled it, Celts shipped it, Edward I stole it, Scottish students
stole it back, and a line of kings and queens, including reigning
monarch Elizabeth II, have been seated above it during coronation
ceremonies at London's Westminster Abbey.
Now, 700 years after Edward I claimed the stone for the English,
the 300-plus pound slab is returning to Scotland.
The new argument is about where in Scotland it should go.
When British Prime Minister John Major revealed plans last
summer for the stone's removal from Westminster Abbey and return to
Scotland, ...