The historic church where the bones of King Robert the Bruce are interred is facing an £8m bill to repair and upgrade the building. The 950-year-old Abbey Church in Dunfermline is considered to ...

Robert I, born on 11 July 1274, was King of Scots from 1306 to his death in 1329 at the age of 54. He led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England.. A series of ...

A three-dimensional reconstruction of the “lost tomb” of Robert the Bruce is to go on permanent display at Dunfermline Abbey, the last resting place of the medieval Scots monarch.

A 3D model of Scottish king Robert the Bruce's head has been unveiled to mark the 750th anniversary of his birth. The reconstruction, which is on display at Dunfermline Abbey, is described as the ...

Historians unveil a digitally-reconstructed image of the face of Scottish king Robert the Bruce nearly 700 years after his death.

A consultation has been launched to help safeguard the future of a historic abbey that contains the bones of King Robert the Bruce amid an “eye-watering” projected £8 million in development ...

The Apse of St Conan's Kirk, Loch Awe (Image: staff). The kirk also shares a part of its history with Dunfermline Abbey. In a huge effigy, it claims to hold a ‘bone fragment’ from King Robert ...

Robert Bruce was king of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329 aged 50 ... The skull was excavated from Dunfermline Abbey in Fife between 1818 and 1819.

Melrose suffered repeatedly. It was sacked by Edward II’s army in 1322; Robert the Bruce helped with the rebuilding and ordered that his heart should be buried there (the rest of his body joined the ...

The 950-year-old Abbey Church in Dunfermline, where the king is interred, ... The parapet marking King Robert the Bruce at the Abbey Church of Dunfermline. Published. 12 February 2025.

The historic church where the bones of King Robert the Bruce are interred is facing an £8m bill to repair and upgrade the building. The 950-year-old Abbey Church in Dunfermline is considered to ...

Dr MacGregor added: "It is fitting that Dunfermline Abbey, where Robert Bruce was buried in 1329, should host an exhibition which brings us face-to-face with Scotland's greatest monarch." ...