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![Detail of a building in Thistle Court, Edinburgh, built around 1768 and one of the oldest buildings in the Edinburgh New Town. The stone is a mixture of locally derived material, with pale yellow-buff and pink sandstones and darker reddish-purple igneous rocks. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/P530859_960px.jpg)
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Scotland’s building stones: over one thousand images now available online
New images of the BGS Building Stone Collection have been published.
![BGS’s Emrys Phillips examining the Stone of Scone at Edinburgh Castle in 1998. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/emerys-phillips-1998-960x653.jpg)
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The Stone of Destiny
The origins of the Stone of Scone: where it came from, why BGS has crumbs of it in its collections and the little-known fact that it is upside down.
![Dr Angela Lamb and Professor Jane Evans in the isotope laboratory.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ALamb_JEvans_isotope_laboratory.jpg)
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