A consultation has been launched to help safeguard the future of a historic abbey that contains the bones of King Robert the Bruce amid ...
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Robert Bruce's struggle for the Scottish crown ... Bruces body is buried in Dunfermline Abbey, whilst his heart is at Melrose Abbey in the borders. It is buried with the inscription – "A noble ...
Historians have long debated whether Robert the Bruce suffered from leprosy ... in a tomb discovered within the ruins of Dunfermline Abbey in 1818.” The head of the model is dressed in a ...
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." ...
After years of illness Bruce dies. Theories about the cause of his sickness range from leprosy to syphilis. His body is interred at Dunfermline Abbey after his heart is removed in accordance with ...