Posted on 07/20/2007 2:39:43 PM PDT by blam
'Lost' coronation abbey unearthed
Experts have found the abbey where Robert the Bruce was crowned
Archaeologists have unearthed the site where Robert the Bruce was crowned king of Scotland. The location of the abbey at Moot Hill, the original home of the Stone of Destiny, was forgotten centuries ago.
But it has now been identified by experts from Glasgow University who have been surveying the grounds of Scone Palace for the first time.
They used scanners to detect buried structures and found part of the abbey church and a bell tower.
The coronation of Pictish and Scottish kings took place at Moot Hill for hundreds of years, and a royal abbey was built there by 1120AD.
Tremendous importance
The archaeologists have been examining the site using a sophisticated technique based on geophysical remote sensing.
Project leader Oliver O'Grady said: "We have been really surprised by the high quality of the survey results so far, revealing a very clear outline of the great west end of the abbey church, complete with at least one bell tower.
"The tremendous importance of Scone - where kings were made and where Parliaments met - is only matched by how little we know about the reality of the place.
"Now we can locate the essential outline of the church and hints of where the cloister and other buildings stood, and all without putting a spade in the ground."
Suzanne Urquhart from Mansfield Estates, which runs Scone Palace, added: "To see the plan of what was a beautiful Gothic church emerge from the ground after being lost for 400 years is very exciting.
"Some major gaps are being filled in our understanding of Scone's amazing history, and we are now talking to the archaeologists about how the project might develop."
The survey has also uncovered evidence of a massive ditch around Moot Hill as well as information about its construction.
Cheap.
Good.
But cheap.
Someone forgot to dust.
Maybe it was moot before they found it; but I think it’s all quite relevant now!
Maybe it was moot before they found it; but I think it’s all quite relevant now!
Arms: Bruce, Earl of Elgin
Crest Badge: A lion statant with tail extended, azure, armed and langued gules.
but I think it’s all quite relevant now!
Yep, that’s what Einstein said too, before the mafia killed him.
They had to, he “knew too much”.
D’ Mafia had Einstein (AKA OneBeer) rubbed out??
Didn’t they know that much of his knowledge was relative?
Yes, they wanted to keep it “in the family”.
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UNCLE!
You win!
:-)
Proper Pronunciation:
Stooon of S-K ooooon
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Seems fair as in the case of Lady Diana,...She lost the “the” when she and “the” dude divorced.
No longer THE Princess of Wales, just plain ‘ol Lady Diana, Princess of Wales.
Oh that Royal protocal is so confusing and meaningless...Though history in itself is quite intriguing.
Oh ya, forgot to add:
Better to lose her “The” instead of her head, as Hank VIII woulda done. OOOOOPs, somehow it all ended quite the same as ‘ol Hank woulda wanted it to, who could imagine that?
Robert 1 of Scotland is known as Robert the Bruce primarily because he is so much the national hero, and he was the only Bruce king.
Edward 1 of England had most of Roberts family killed, and he captured and imprisoned all the rest except for one brother, who had no legitimate children.
When Edward 2 finally freed his remaining family members after 6 (?) years of imprisonment in sometimes extremely harsh conditions, his wife was unable to have more children.
Robert’s only daughter married the son of the High Steward of Scotland, and the crown passed to the Stewart family.
You’re thinking of Bruce Hardwood.
What a great find for the Scots.
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