Ian Hamilton answers the question - Is it the real Stone of Destiny?

Tributes have been paid to Ian Hamilton QC, who has died aged 97.
The Paisley-born advocate is most famous for masterminding a heist to 'steal' or 'liberate' the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey in 1950. But there was much more to this 'man o' pairts' than that.
Scotland’s national bard Robert Burns praised ‘the man o’ independent mind’ in his song A Man’s A Man For A’ That. It well described Ian, who challenged establishments throughout his long life.
He still had much to say when The Oban Times interviewed him in 2017 at his home in Connel.
You can see the full interview on our website in a few days time , but here is the answer to the question everyone wanted to ask: is the rock he returned the real Stone of Destiny?
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[@BallymurphyBabe]

RIP 🙏🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@lexicornfell7361]

Hate to state the obvious, but if it was quarried in Scone then it definitely wasn’t the Stone of Destiny, which definitely *wasn’t* quarried in Scone.

[@lilpipskweek6448]

Well the question was answered alright but in truth or legalese? Little doubt then that the removed and returned stone may well be the same but is the stone of destiny, the stone of scone,the ben ben stone or that lump that I use as a doorstop? Differing weights but who or what weighed them 400lbs plus is way beyond my bathroom scales! But so what there is nothing more enticing than a mystery. We have seen the public face of this gentleman but you can bet your boots and breeks he knows a lot more

[@Michael-pn5lp]

The stolen Stone of Scone was recovered from Westminster Abby on Christmas Day 1950 ! On the Dead Sea Scroll's solar calendar, after the Vernal Equinox starting the next Biblical Year, it was placed on the altar in the ruins of Arbroath Abbey on the 11th April 1951. With a 21st March Vernal Equinox that year, this means that the Stone of Scone was placed on the altar of Arbroath Abby on the last seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: a Holy High Day ! So in the same BIBLICAL year: • 1951 was 3400 years and the 68th Jubilee after the Exodus from Egypt ! (Working with a 4BC birth of Christ) • Before the next Vernal Equinox King George VI died on the 6th of February 1951. • Queen Elizabeth II immediately ascended the throne - although only later coronated. i.e. The Stone of Scone was recovered in the Jubilee 7x7 49th year of 1950, and later placed on the High Altar of Arbroath Abby on the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread - in the Jubilee 50th year of 1951 ! The Declaration of Scottish Independence drafted at Arbroath Abby and dated the 6th April 1320, was also in the midst of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: The vernal equinox was the 20th March that year and the 7th April was the 4th day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread that year: the day of Christ’s resurrection on the Biblical annual calendar. So 631 years later (6+3+1=10), on the last 7th Day of Unleavened Bread, being a High Day, the Stone of Scone was placed on the High Alter in the ruins of that very same Arbroath Abby, wrapped in the “Saltire” or “Saint Andrews Cross” - the national flag of Scotland. Saint Andrew was the brother of Peter, and also an apostle and disciple of Christ. In the 1320 “Declaration of Arbroath” the Scott’s claimed to be Israelites who migrated from Egypt to Spain to Ireland and then to Scotland ! Legend has it that the Stone of Scone would sometimes groan when a king was crowned on it. It is now apparent that the Stone of Scone had a flaw in it. It had a faint fracture that could be the cause of the noise when some weightier kings were crowned sitting on it: the fracture gradually progressed further and further under the weight and hence the “groans”. When it was removed from beneath the coronation throne in Westminster Abby on Christmas Day 1950, it finally broke into two pieces in the process. The smaller piece was secretly returned to Scotland almost immediately and the larger piece was returned sometime later. Once re-assembled and re-enforced into the semblance of one stone, it was placed on the alter as described above. When it was later back in Westminster Abby, Queen Elisabeth II was coronated on a broken Stone of Scone - what is the significance and implication of that as we see history unfold ???.. ,, , , ,.

[@michealcurrie8272]

Aye .The best laid schemes for mice and men. RB