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National Museum of Scotland
Trip No.62 Entry No.1 Date Added: 8th Jan 2018
Site Type: Museum
Country: Scotland (Midlothian)
Visited: Yes on 19th Dec 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
National Museum of Scotland submitted by dodomad on 10th Jul 2016. The Greenlaw axehead
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Log Text: Pictish and Early Christian Stones, NMS: The weather prohibited my friends and I from doing much outside, so the National Museum of Scotland seemed like a good place to visits. Neither of us had been before, and as neither of us knew where we were going, asked the lady at the reception desk for the Pictish Stones. She was very helpful, pulling out a guide of the museum and telling us that some of them were in the basement, other in the Kingdom of the Scots exhibition on the first/part floor. She said she would contact one of her colleagues.
She pointed us in the direction of the stairs to the next floor down, and by the time we reached the bottom, a colleague was already waiting to greet us. He walked us round to the start of the exhibition and round to the pod to the side of the ‘early people exhibition’ on the lower ground floor. I spent a very happy couple of hours wandering around the exhibitions and photographing the stones.
The one downside was that not all the signs telling us what the exhibits were could be found. I did try and find someone to ask later in the afternoon, but could find no-one on the museum floor that we were on. I will email or revisit to find out more about the exhibits I'm really interested in.
Edinburgh Runestone
Trip No.62 Entry No.2 Date Added: 8th Jan 2018
Site Type: Carving
Country: Scotland (Midlothian)
Visited: Yes on 19th Dec 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Edinburgh Runestone submitted by Anne T on 7th Jan 2018. The Runestone seen by clambering up the steep muddy track from Princes Street Gardens, just below the Castle Esplanade. The runes read: ""Ari engraved this stone in memory of Hialm his father. God help his soul."
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Log Text: The Edinburgh Runestone: Getting to this stone was rather precarious! It was easy to walk up the 40 degree slope by clutching onto the nearby railings around the stone. Getting down was more difficult and left my friend with mud all over his walking boots. The stone is obviously in the middle of being moved - it has been strapped up and well protected. I'm glad its going to a much more accessible site. On my next trip up to Edinburgh I'll make a point of going to see this stone in its new location.