Tour Scotland photograph of Scone Palace by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This historic house It was constructed in 1808 for the Earls of Mansfield by William Atkinson. Built of red sandstone with a castellated roof, it is a classic example of the late Georgian Gothic style. In the Middle Ages the land was the site of a major Augustinian abbey, Scone Abbey, of which nothing now remains above the ground level, the crowning place of the Kings of the Scots, on the Stone of Destiny, down to King Alexander III.
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