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Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh: The Slidey Stone

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tiompan Oct 2, 2009 19:47:56

Replying to Branwen

Branwen wrote:

I was just thinking about adding more to the pages about stuff local to me cos I'm off ill a few weeks, not visiting anywhere. The grid references would certainly help on some sites where they call a stone by a similar name and as location just give "Edinburgh".

The internet is an evil thing though... typed in the term on the stone pages and then wandered from one page to another for hours withour realising till my backside went numb at the same time my feet got pins and needles.

Martin has done Spott .The one in Forres is in Victoria rd at hte eastern end of the town just off the main Inverness road .The Dunfermline one is in a field to the north of the road from Dunfermline to Cairneyhill .St Martins is about a mile from the village and is in the middle of field to the north of th track at about NO 316 159 . Monzie is in the grounds of Monzie castle near Crieff and has a fine kerb cairn with rock art not far from the stone which is dead obvious .

Branwen Oct 3, 2009 05:04:32

Replying to tiompan

Oooh Martin, you're the one that listed all the Edinburgh sites. Hope you don't mind me adding bits to the Arthur's Seat ones, it's my favourite bit of the city. If they are superfluous I'm sure the site manager will remove them.

There's a link to how to find the slidey stone on the pages that had the picture above, Martin. http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_edin/1_edinburgh_history_-_recollections_jeannie_deans_cottage.htm#8_tam_croal
You have to scroll down to Answer number 9 though. It's become well and truly grown over since the 1950's as well. Even the park rangers had to go digging when asked, and it sounds like the kids had lots of slidey stones from what you are saying about Hunter's Bog now, too. I have that booklet, and am awaiting an old out of print victorian guide from a friend relating to Arthur's Seat which might help me out with folklore from there in general. Any info on the big boulder ( http://www.ancient-stones.co.uk/lothian/011/019/details.htm seen here) at Dunsapie called the Witch Stone, Martin? It looks nothing like the one that was destroyed; no slide. Sorry to be a pest... LOL

BTW. Following links within that last page, I saw the person that wrote that the slidey stone looks like a piece of the blown up witchstone to him too, so it isn't just me.

I'm told the one that was blown up in Holyrood park was near the cairn of stones at the roundabout just past St Margaret's Loch, so way off from the slidey stone the kids played on, and unlikely to be a piece of it left behind. Tuesday I can have a look in the national archives I guess.

One I haven't found yet is at Murthly in Perth, too. I think it's a slidey one as well, from the allusions to it elsewhere.