Rob Roy MacGregor’s gravestone;scans suggest first carvings were made 1,000years before he died

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A recent study has uncovered that the gravestone of Rob Roy MacGregor, found at Balquhidder Parish Church, has roots that stretch back an astonishing thousand years prior to his…

"Far and near, through vale and hill,Are faces that attest the same,And kindle like a fire new stirr'd,At sound of Rob Roy's name", wrote William Wordsworth in the poem Rob Roy's Grave (1905), later to be used in an introduction of Sir Walter Scott's novel, Rob Roy set in year 1715.Some larger-than-life heroes have been indelibly etched into stories of valour through the ages. Among the stories of the Scottish Highlands, one tale that has reverberated through time is that of Rob Roy MacGregor.

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