It can't be denied, Braveheart is a very well-made and effective movie. Play that on TV a few times in the run up to any future Scottish independence referendum, and there'll be a free Scotland before you can say "Hung, drawn and quartered".

#Braveheart #ScottishIndependence #Freedom #Bannockburn

Bótalle unha ollada a esta publicación: "AUOB Stirling - Voices of the people : a report by Ruth Ritchie #Scotland #YesMovement #Independence #Bannockburn ". http://www.pilaraymara.com/2023/06/auob-stirling-voices-of-people-by-ruth.html

Another for the anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, fought on 23/24 June 1314. Inside the superb @N_T_S Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre, bringing history to life. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stirling/bannockburn/index.html

#Scotland #BannockburnVisitorCentre #Bannockburn #Stirling #OnThisDay #RobertTheBruce #UndiscoveredScotland

Here lies our land: every airt
Beneath swift clouds, glad glints of sun,
Belonging to none but itself…

—“Here lies our land”, by Kathleen Jamie. The poem is inscribed on the #Bannockburn monument
#Scottish #literature #poetry

#OTD, 24 June 1314, the Scottish army destroyed a much larger English invasion force at #Bannockburn. In 1793 Robert Burns composed “Scots Wha Hae” – originally entitled “Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn”

text from Selected Poems by Robert Burns (Penguin 1993)
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#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns
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Happy Cockburn day and Bannockburn day

RT @siliconglen@twitter.com

International #cockburn day @thecockburn@twitter.com @CockburnPol@twitter.com

Origin story : Battle of #bannockburn this day in #1314

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/siliconglen/status/1408117530749718530

709 years ago today. Robert the Bruce decisively won the Battle of Bannockburn on 23/24 June 1314, cementing his grip on Scotland and, arguably, deferring the Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England by nearly three centuries. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stirling/bannockburn/index.html

#Scotland #BannockburnVisitorCentre #Bannockburn #Stirling #OnThisDay #RobertTheBruce #UndiscoveredScotland

Schyr Hanry myssit the noble king…

Robert I, King of Scots, killed Sir Henry de Bohun in single combat on the first day of the Battle of #Bannockburn #OTD, 23 June 1314. The epic vernacular poem “The Brus” by John Barbour (c.1320–95) describes the event

#Scottish #medieval #literature #Scots

Picked This Up At The Bannockburn Battlefield Museum A Few Months Ago…
#scotland #bannockburn #bannockburnmuseum #bannockburnbattlefield #souvenir #photography

Estatua de Robert I de Escocia en Bannockburn levantada en conmemoración de la victoria sobre los ingleses de Eduardo II en 1314. #scotland #Escocia #robertbruce #bannockburn #history #historia #divulgacion

When we visited #Scotland, we took a bus from #Bannockburn to #Stirling, and two teenage girls were sitting right behind us. Literally the only word we could understand was "fock." 😂

Taken this day, 2016, Field of Bannockburn https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/25478196072/

#Bannockburn #Stirling #Scotland #History #photography #RobertTheBruce #KingOfScots #BattleOfBannockburn #Ecosse #FieldOfBannockburn #statue #memorial

Nice one #Bannockburnhouse (.scot) Huge congrats to Jim Bennett & team there. Cracking international connection too via John McLaren #Bannockburn #Stirling #SanFrancisco #GoldenGatePark https://www.whatsonstirling.co.uk/news/2023/01/11/stirling-council-invests-600k-in-community-projects/

#EelRent exploration! at https://historiacartarum.org/eel-rents-project/english-eel-rents-10th-17th-centuries/

#Sudbury in 1086 owed rent of 100 #eels to Henry de Ferrers.

#Chesterton near #Cambridge c.1250 owed 1,000 eels to its vicarage.

#Lakenheath in 1020 owed 4,000 eels to the Abbey at #BuryStEdmunds. In 1315 it instead owed 4,300 eels to the #EarlOfGloucester - but the last earl had just died at the Battle of #Bannockburn. His widow claimed to be pregnant with an heir - so probably took delivery of the eels?

#medieval #medievodons @medievodons

The National William Wallace Monument at Abbey Craig, Stirling, Scotland. Taking 8yrs to build, it was completed in 1869 and stands at 220ft tall. It commemorates Sir William Wallace and the men who lost their lives in the 1st War of Scottish Independence.
#williamwallace #Stirlingshire #bannockburn #architecture #landmark #monument #tourism #tower #scotland

Photo by @charles.mcguigan

La Marche des soldats de Robert the Bruce, roi d'Ecosse (1306-1329) qui fut jouée par les troupes écossaises de Jeanne d'Arc lors de son entrée à Orléans en 1429.

#StAndrew #RoberttheBruce #Orléans #Scotland #AuldAlliance #Bannockburn

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=GNUwc01dypU

Historic #orchard remnant planted early 1900s. #Stone #cottage begun 1873 by David Stewart, a miner, dwelt in by him and a miner buddy. A modern roof was added to protect the #ruin. Pear and apricot trees. Stewart Town, #Bannockburn, Central Otago. New Zealand #CentralOtago #NewZealand

Historic #orchard remnant, pear and apricot trees. Planted early-1900s at a small community that grew in the 1860s with arrival of gold miners and hydraulic sluicing. Stewart Town.. via a walk through 'badlands' landscape shaped by sluicing. 31 Oct. #Bannockburn Central Otago, New Zealand. #NewZealand

Sunrise at Bannockburn back in 2014.
#Bannockburn #RoberttheBruce #Scotland.
I wonder what today will bring..

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The Scots relishing the outcome of the single combat rushed the English forces and focred them back over the narrow Bannock burn crossing.

However, the difficult terrain (boggy) made it difficult for either side to gain advantage and the battle continued to a second day.

Overnight, the English forces re-crossed the burn, but in the morning were forced back by the Scottish schiltrons.

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#OTD #Scotland #Bannockburn #history