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Aerial view of Tantallon Castle, with its distinctive red sandstone curtain wall. © Historic Environment Scotland.
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How can Scotland re-establish its building stone industry?

British Geological Survey research, commissioned by Historic Environment Scotland, reveals an opportunity to re-establish the Scottish building stone market in order to maintain the country’s historic buildings.

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.
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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.
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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.
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Bone chemistry reveals royal lifestyle of Richard III

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