'Lost' Coronation Abbey Unearthed (Robert The Bruce)

BBC ^ | 7-20-2007

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Stone Of Scone

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GGG Ping.

Stone Of Destiny

[Bahbah]

Very cool, blam.

[rod1]

Wonderful!! Nice advance using technology.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

"Scone Palace."

How about "Crumpets Castle?"

Long live the Highlands and William Wallace's actual last words:

"SCOTLAND!!!"

[vladimir998]

Quote from the article:

“”To see the plan of what was a beautiful Gothic church emerge from the ground after being lost for 400 years is very exciting.”

400 years, huh? Why 400 years ago? Must have been the Protestant Revolution.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

what is a “bruce”? I always thought it was a coiffured guy who lithped.........

[Voltage]

Why are these things always buried...where is all this dirt coming from?

[DancesWithCats]

Moot Hill? Scone Palace? (Was this article written by the producers of Candyland?)

All jokes aside, this is a wonderful find! I'll be looking forward to reading more as they dig further. Must be so exciting to be on-site with it all! PING!!

[Rocky]

Excellent.

Nice write-up on Robert the Bruce here:

http://www.britannia.com/bios/robertbruce.html

“Robert Bruce is surely the greatest of all the great Scottish heroes, yet the Hollywood movie Braveheart gave all the heroics to his compatriot William Wallace, making Bruce out to be nothing more than a self-serving opportunist. However, it was the patience and cunning of Bruce that Scotland needed, not the impetuousness of Wallace, especially facing such formidable enemies as the English, first under Edward I and then under his son and heir Edward II. Bruce bided his time; he first had to establish his authority as King of Scotland. By the time of Bannockburn, he was ready.”

[djf]

I always thought it was kind of a dumb title.

Donald the Duck makes more sense.

But I think “Bruce” means like “bearded one”, or somesuch.
I knew an Italian gal once and seems she was called “Maria the Bruce”.

[Redcloak]

You mean that he wasn’t Australian?

[Oratam]

Someone please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but placing "the" before the family name indicates he is the head of the family/clan/sept.

There were many with the surname Bruce, but Robert was THE Bruce.

[Oratam]

I’ve thought that myself. Some of these things are really down there. What gives?

[IronJack]

Now if they could just find Oliver Cromwell’s head ...

[beelzepug]

G’day, Bruce.

[facedown]

ping

[yankeedame]

f.Moot Hill? Scone Palace? (Was this article written by the producers of Candyland?)

LOL!!!

[ABN 505]

Nice link. I always thought the Stone of Scone was on an Island in the firth of forth.

[woofer]

The survey has also uncovered evidence of a massive ditch around Moot Hill

Would that be the Moat of Moot?