Robert the Bruce's Tomb, Dunfermline Abbey
While Robert the Bruce's heart was buried at Melrose Abbey after
an ill-fated posthumous pilgrimmage to the Holy Land, his body was
buried in Dunfermline's Old Abbey in 1329. His tomb was destroyed
during the Reformation period, with fragments of the tomb and his
remains discovered in 1817. The skeletal remains of Scotland's most
famous king were reinterred in Dunfermline Abbey and covered over
with bitumen and a brass plaque donated by the Earl of Elgin in
1889.
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East Ayrshire Council
