Lesson of the man who saved a national symbol

IN 1699, after the Battle of the Boyne, Charles Campbell was given land north of the river. He needed to build walls for his new estate so he sent his workmen to dig a quarry nearby.

The men started to dig and soon found a large stone covered in carvings and patterns.

The foreman sent for Campbell who realised this was an important discovery, called a halt to the digging and went elsewhere for his stone.