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| It is said that there was a third stone associated with this site standing where the farm of Clinkingstane was subsequently built. Local tradition has it that this was the trysting place of a young heiress and her lover who had a 'lang pedigree' but little in the way of wordly goods. After failing to have the suitor transported to the colonies the girls father had an armed band slay him. After a desperate fight the ruffians fled as the heiress came upon them. Finding her lover murdered she is said to have died at his side of a broken heart. A poem attributed to George E.S. Shanks of Whitburn, West Lothian commemorates the event and stone as follows: One long embrace, one concious kiss, And both our souls had fled, And there beneath the Clinkin' Stane, Two lovers we lay dead. Source: West Lothian District Council (198?), The Bathgate Hills, Robert MacLehose & Co. Ltd., Scotland The word 'Clink' in Scots can mean either of the following, some of which may be appropriate: money, telltale, beat, snatch, compose, flinty rock The geology of the area supports sedimentary rocks that could be construed as 'flinty'. |
Posted by Corbie29th January 2004ce Edited 16th July 2004ce
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