It's not a legend. The cess pit cover stolen by Longshanks and removed to Westminster, for Saxon a***s to grace for the next 700 years, was indeed the one removed from Scone. Possibly the best joke ever played on them! (and he knew he'd been had - otherwise why raid the abbey AGAIN two years after the initial theft?) When the alleged Stone was liberated by Ian Hamilton and friends in the 1950's, several copies of the cess pit lid were made by a Glasgow sculptor. One of the copies was kept in St Columba's kirk in Dundee, by the minister of the time (I'd have to look up his name, but he was chaplain to one of the groups purporting to be Templars) and when St Columba's was sold (demolished and rebuilt as a nursing home) the replica was moved to Dull, which at that time boasted a floor replete with Templar Cross.

This is the floor being removed and excavated during the dig this year, I don't know where the replica stone went but the one in Edinburgh bears no resemblance to the 13th C description of the Lia Fail, which was black basalt rock, carved in volutes. Not a silly wee block of Perthshire sandstone, with a couple of iron handles....

Laugh - we nearly sh*t.

To quote Cuddly Dudley.