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The Heart of Robert the Bruce Marker
Photographer: Brandon Fletcher
Taken: April 6, 2011
Caption: The Heart of Robert the Bruce Marker
Additional Description: The casket said to contain the Robert the Bruce's heart was investigated in 1996. Inside the casket was another casket reading, "The enclosed leaden casket containing a heart was found beneath Chapter House floor, March 1921, by His Majesty's Office of Works". Since there were no other reports or records of hearts being buried in Melrose, the container was buried in 1998 and marked with the above stone.
Submitted: July 24, 2015, by Brandon Fletcher of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p317359
File Size: 5.597 Megabytes

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