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Stirling academic to map Bannockburn battle site

THE lie of the land at Bannockburn as Robert the Bruce's legions defeated the largest English army to invade Scotland is to be recreated in its entirety for the first time.

The move by a Stirling University academic could show King Edward II's tactics – criticised on the assumption the ground where he camped his army was unsuitably boggy – were not as bad as originally thought.

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