For nearly 300 years, visitors to Scotland’s Balquhidder churchyard have admired Rob Roy MacGregor’s gravestone, but 3D scans now suggest its first carvings were made about 1,000 years before he died
Grave of Rob Roy, his wife and son. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) “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…

