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Title
The Stones of Scotland
Date
2002
Medium
stone
Measurements
H 20 x W 1000 x D 1000 cm (E)
Accession number
EH8_CB_S007
Acquisition method
commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council
Work type
Landscape
Work status
extant
Inscription description
inlaid in the paved centre of the circle, a flat stone inscribed with the last 5 lines of a poem by Hugh McDermid: "So I have gathered unto myself / All the loose ends of Scotland. / And by naming them and accepting them, / Loving them and identifying myself with them. / Attempt to express the whole." / Hugh McDermid.; on a raised stone in the centre of the monument: 2000. In front of the stone, and inscription from Tessa Ransford’s poem, Incantation: whose the tread that fits this mark?