The ancient symbol of Scottish kings was taken from Westminster Abbey in an audacious raid.
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As he watched them drive away, he was unaware that concealed in the car was a broken chunk of the Stone of Destiny, the ancient symbol of Scotland, which had been seized six centuries earlier by English King Edward I. So during the Christmas holidays from university the four students set off for London in two elderly Ford cars. The other members of the gang were Gavin Vernon and Alan Stuart.This picture shows the Coronation Chair and the Stone of Destiny in 1937
They placed the stone on the floor and Ian took his coat off so they could use it to drag the block along. The keys to the second car had fallen out of his coat pocket so Ian had to go back inside the pitch black church to find them. The Metropolitan Police had correctly assumed the stolen stone was heading north of the border, so a team of Scotland Yard detectives were sent to work with Scottish police.Ian Hamilton said he had intended to leave the stone buried until the "hue and cry" had died down, but became worried about the effect of the freezing conditions on the stone that had not been exposed to elements for 600 years.
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