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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Site of THE LECTURE STANE Site of Lecture Stane.
Site of Lecture Stane
Site of Lecture Stane
The Lecture Stane
The Lecture Stane
Mr. Peter Craig (Schoolmaster Cleish)
Walter Baillie (Cogfauld)
Rev. [Reverend] Mr. Ross.
New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]
Fullertons Gazetteer.
030 [Situation] About 1/4 Mile S.E. [South East] of Cleish.
This Stone until a few years ago Stood a little north of Nivingston House on the South Side of the public Road. It was a large Whin Stone of a very hard description insomuch that many attempts failed to blow it asunder with powder, at last the ambition of a Road maker was aroused to try his might on the Stone in Consequence of Supernatural power attributed to it and managed to Smash it in many pieces. There is a tradition in the locality that the stone was used in Romish times on burial occasions. See New Statistical Account.

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[Page] 41 Plan 30A Trace No.7 Parish of Cleish

[Note:] "About 1/4 of a Mile east from the Church,
in a Stone dike opposite Nivingston House,
Stands a large rock, which deserves notice. It is
called The Lecture Stone, and was used, it
Seems, before the Reformation at funerals, as a support
for the Coffins at the time that the burial Service
was read. There is a large hole it, which was
made many years ago with the view of bursting
it with powder." New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]"

Not so written on plan.

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