Statue of Robert the Bruce by Pilkington Jackson, near the Bannockburn Heritage Centre.

A battle at Srub Liath in Scotland, where the flower of the English fell at the hands of Robert Bruce in doing battle for the possession of Scotland, where many earls and knights and numberless other men were slain, along with the Earl of Gloucester, he who of all the English was of most nobility and dignity and inherited the greatest estate.

– Annála Connacht (Annals of Connaught), Annal 1314.5.