HISTORY lovers are being invited along to the start of a community project in Dunfermline.
The Royal Tombs Dunfermline Community Project are inviting all those interested in the history of Dunfermline Abbey and its tombs, especially the Nave, to attend the Pagan Inspired Cafe on High Street at 2pm on Friday 11.
Anyone keen to go should get in touch with Sheila Pitcairn at: sheila.pitcairn@gmail.com.
The local historian has been campaigning for more than a year to immortalise the unmarked graves of 11 Scottish royals in the Abbey Nave.
Sheila said there is nothing to mark the final resting places of six Scottish kings, two queens and three princes who are buried there, in what’s known as ‘Little Westminster’, and precious little to tell locals about their stories.
She started a petition that aims to “raise Scotland’s awareness to the disgraceful treatment and lack of any identifying features, in the resting places of some of Scotland’s much loved Royals”.
While seven kings were buried in Dunfermline, only the tomb of Robert the Bruce in the abbey itself has any identifying features.
There is nothing for Malcolm III (also known as Malcolm Canmore), Duncan II, Edgar, Alexander I, David I and Malcolm IV.
Queen Margaret, who became a saint, Queen Sybilla and princes Edward, Ethelrade and Edmund were also interred there.
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