| The convictions resulted from a Police Scotland covert operation, Operation Lapstone, led by the Organised Crime and Counter Terrorism Unit. |
| Others will upheave the blacksmith's hammer, or drive the plane over the carpenter's bench, or take the lapstone and the awl and learn the trade of shoemaking. |
| They disparaged Hale and Tindale's Devon Downs excavation of 1929, and that by Fred McCarthy in 1936 at Lapstone Creek, as irrelevant. |
| One giant block of rock on the floor of the dene, called the Devil's Lapstone, is a chunk of reef limestone which fell from the steep sides. |
