This route was not only used for coronation travellers.  It was frequently used by pilgrims on their way to Scone Abbey, before going on to visit the abbeys of Perth.  Local Perthshire historian Joe Blerry reckons to have come across a traveller's tale which relates to the road alongside the Hill Deuchny.  I have abridged it for this site to avoid the colourful vernacular language of the period (about 1520).

It was in the ******* spring that the sun showed her **** to a human race which had ****** the rest of ******* Nature and God for ****'s sake.  But while *******, at the same time I could not help but ****** see the rest of the flowers of ******* Nature about me, and, ***** me, the donkey spoke, oh yes he ******* did. And the tortoise heard him speak saying '**** me! I'm ***** I knew you could speak.'  And the donkey said 'Nay but I am ****** that you also speak you ******* green scaley ******'.

'Not only can I ******* speak, but I can go a lot ******* faster than******* you too, you ******.' said the tortoise.

'May the ******* ***** spurt from my **** if you are able to go ******* faster than me, you scaley green ******.' replied the donkey.  And he galloped off along the Coronation Road saying, I shall be at the ******* holy abbey of ******* Scone before you have******* reached the next ******* stone.'

But the tortoise did ******* amble quietly along until a ******* mighty ******* horse of several ******* tons, I deem a war-*******-horse of that there could be no ******* doubt, came ******* galloping along, be-*******-side the ******* stream. And its great ******* hooves ex-*******-ploded the ******* green tortoise in the ******* mud. And its innards ******* decorated his shins as he galloped on and overtook the ******* donkey at the Pictstonhille. Yet as he sped ******* past the ******* sintered brains of the ******* tortoise did shout, '******* told ******* you, did I ******* not.'
 
 

The modern path is to the left of the gorse bushes. The boulders line the right-hand side of the path which was through where the gorse bushes are now.  The left of the path is obscured by gorse and modern-day horses have pounded a new track to the left of the scrub. The burn is further to the left.  After leaving Deuchny Wood, Langley Burn turns sharply west and leaves the indicated line of the Road.  But we meet up with it again. Photograph 20 shows the line of the road leaving Langley Burn.  The road breaks out into open ground before heading through a gate flanked by ancient beech trees.