- CountryUK
- Town:Bannockburn
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Year of creation:1964
- Rider(s):Bruce, Robert the
(1274-1329) better known as Robert the Bruce, freed Scotland from English control.
- Sculptor(s):Pilkington Jackson, Charles
(1887 – 1973) studied design at the Royal Institution, Edinburgh and the new Edinburgh Art College. The work of Carl Milles was an important influence on Pilkington Jackson who visited the Swedish sculptor in 1929. Pilkington Jackson was always meticulous in his research and paid great attention to accuracy. His best-known work and the pinnacle of his career, was The Bruce at Bannockburn (1964).
Source: a text written by his granddaughter, Kirsty Jackson.
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Scotland’s greatest king and war leader has an equestrian statue in Bannockburn in a good setting: the field where the warring parties camped on the night before the battle. The heroic statue shows Robert holding the axe with which he cleft the head of Henry de Bohun on the eve of battle, sending a shiver down the spines of his enemies and filling them with foreboding. The head of Robert was modelled on measurements of his skull following the re-discovery in 1821 of his skeletal remains in Dunfermline Abbey.
