When Robert the Bruce died in 1329 he was buried in the choir of Dunfermline Abbey, and his grave marked by a tomb recorded as having been imported from Paris at the personal request of the late king. This was later destroyed probably in the Reformation era. However during the site clearance prior to the building of the present day Abbey Church fragments of carved and gilded marble, which were thought to be from the vanished tomb, were revealed.  The relics were subsequently passed to museums in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dunfermline and to Abbotsford House.The design of Bruce‘s tomb has been the subject of much speculation. Scottish heritage bodies combined to re-examine the excavated remains in order to present a digital reconstruction of the Lost Tomb of Robert the Bruce in its historic setting.  The result is the first ever three-dimensional digital model of the Bruce tomb.  The exhibition and digital reconstruction, which was first shown in the Hunterian in 2014, can now be seen in the Abbey Church.