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Ordnance Survey Office
Perth
15th September 1859

Sir

From your willingness
to assist at all times in any
research required for the
purposes of the Ordnance
Survey. I need scarcely
apologise for troubling you
on this occasion. You will
perhaps have observed that
there is a stone or rock
situated about 60 statute
perches NW. [North West] of Bordie, farm
house, on Culross Moor
having two rectangular holes,
which is said to have been
the place where the Standard
of the Scottish army was
erected at the Battle of
Culross. I have got the
name "Standard Stone" for
it. This no doubt is a very
appropriate designation,
but I wish to ascertain
what is the popular name
or that by which it is
W. Stephen Esqr.
Culross


Culross 19 Sept. [September] 1859

Sir

I have much pleasure in
replying to your letter. I cannot find
that the Rock, to which you refer,
was ever known, in the Parish, by
any other name than the one you
have got, "the Standard Stone".
It was never known by the designation
"Boar, or Bore Stone".
But there is a Stone formerly
known by this name, situated,
at the extreme N. W. [North West] point of the
Parish, once of the Burgh, in the
Moor now within Tulliallan policy. In the times of riding the
Marches, the cavalcade was wont
to muster, then, the Standard of the
of the Ancients, or Ensigns as they
were called, was fixed in the hole
in the Stone, and the Town Clerk
standing on the stone, called over the
Burgess roll, a fine being imposed
on those, who were not present to
answer to their names. The fact of
the Standard of the Ancients being
found in the Stone, may possibly
account for the name "Bore
Stone."
I remain
Sic Your envoy
W.C. Stephen
Capt. [Captain] Martin