Publication Account

Date 1997

Event ID 1019356

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019356

Although protected since 1932 by the National Trust for Scotland, the site of the Battle of Bannockburn was only developed in a representational and monumental manner in the 1960s. In 1962, under NTS auspices, the site was landscaped and the circular, concrete Rotunda erected, to focus on visitors' attention on Stirling Castle as the English army's objective, and Pilkington Jackson was commissioned by the King Robert the Bruce Memorial Committee to make a massive bronze equestrian statue of the King (unveiled 1964). The information centre was opened in 1967 by William Ross, Secretary of State for Scotland. (Fig 4.3).

Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland, 1945-75', (1997).