the landscape, his training in battle as a knight and employing the tactics of William Wallace of ambushes and surprise attacks, and advancing and retreating as the occasion demanded. Bruce's Stone Bruce's Stone is a large granite boulder commemorating King Robert's victory in 1307. It is atop the hill on the north side of Loch Trool. In 1929, on the 600th anniversary of Bruce's death, it was placed high above the northern shore of Loch Trool, from where, legend has it, he had commanded the ambush that took place on the Steps of Trool on the other side of the loch. It also serves as a starting spot for the challenging walk up Merrick (2764 feet), the highest mountain in southern Scotland. Notes References Barbour, John, The Bruce, trans. A. A. H. Douglas, 1964. Bingham C. Robert the Bruce, 1998. Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, ed. J. Bain, 1881–8. Duncan, A. A. M., The War of the Scots, in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1992. Glen Trool History of Dumfries and Galloway 1307 in Scotland Glen Trool Glen Trool