You say the first extant drawing is 1832, but I was reading Charles Cordiner's Remarkable Ruins and Romantic Prospects.. of 1788, and he claims he found the stone, and gives a depiction of it, recognisably the same stone. So there is earlier evidence.
Thanks for very useful pictures and text.
Alistair Mason
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