Other events include Europe's biggest brass band festival and a re-enactment of the Battle of Bannockburn.

BBC: Homecoming 2014

The poetry competition was part of the Battle of Bannockburn project to transform the monument to the site.

BBC: Monument rotunda

The restoration of a weather-beaten statue of Robert the Bruce has begun ahead of the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn in 2014.

BBC: Work begins to restore Bruce statue at Bannockburn

As well as a new visitor centre, the Battle of Bannockburn project will see remedial works to the existing historic monuments, including the rotunda, flagpole and Bruce statue, all of which will be restored to their former glory.

BBC: The Bannockburn Heritage Centre

Hard by this slogan are more icons of Scottish nationalism, such as the Monymusk Reliquary, a casket which was carried into battle against the English at Bannockburn by Robert the Bruce.

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