Editing Robert the Bruce (section)

=== Commemoration and monuments ===
Robert I was originally buried in Dunfermline Abbey, the traditional resting place of Scottish monarchs since the reign of [[Malcolm Canmore]]. His tomb, imported from [[Paris]], was extremely elaborate, carved from gilded [[alabaster]]. It was destroyed at the [[Reformation]], but some fragments were discovered in the 19th century (now in the [[Museum of Scotland]] in [[Edinburgh]]).

The site of the tomb in Dunfermline Abbey was marked by large carved stone letters spelling out "King Robert the Bruce" around the top of the [[bell tower]] when the eastern half of the abbey church was rebuilt in the first half of the 19th century. In 1974 the Bruce Memorial Window was installed in the north [[transept]], commemorating the 700th anniversary of the year of his birth. It depicts [[stained glass]] images of the Bruce flanked by his chief men, [[Christ]], and [[Christian saint|saints]] associated with Scotland.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dunfermlineabbey.co.uk/index.php?ID=1853&CATEGORY=4-History |title=Dunfermline Abbey History |publisher=The Church of Scotland |access-date=20 October 2008}}</ref>

[[File:Robert the Bruce, Edinburgh Castle.jpg|thumb|Bruce statue at the entrance to Edinburgh Castle]]

A 1929 statue of Robert the Bruce is set in the wall of Edinburgh Castle at the entrance, along with one of [[Sir William Wallace]]. In Edinburgh also, the [[Scottish National Portrait Gallery]] has statues of Bruce and Wallace in niches flanking the main entrance. The building also contains several frescos depicting scenes from Scots history by [[William Brassey Hole]] in the entrance foyer, including a large example of Bruce marshalling his men at Bannockburn.

A bust of Bruce is in the Hall of Heroes of the [[National Wallace Monument]] in [[Stirling]].

A statue of Robert Bruce stands in the High Street in Lochmaben and another in Annan (erected 2010) in front of the town's Victorian hall.

An annual commemorative dinner has been held in his honour in [[Stirling]] since 2006.

Swords inscribed with Robert's name probably date from the 16th century rather than earlier. There is one in the [[Wallace Collection]] and a missing one in Ireland.<ref>'Sixteenth Century Swords Found in Ireland' by G. A. Hayes-McCoy, in "The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland", Vol. 78, No. 1 (July 1948), p. 44</ref>